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Monday, January 26, 2009

Small Cigars Could Get Cigarette Treatment by States


“The surging popularity of small cigars, available in fruit and candy flavors, is prompting state and local governments to try to regulate and tax them like cigarettes.” (USA Today, Monday)

If it moves, tax and regulate it.

FEE Timely Classic
“Just a Cigar” by Jacob Sullum


  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.