Despite the deadline being next year, the HPHC report will be a costly one for manufacturers to complete. Another issue is that there’s no clear way for manufacturers to go about testing their products to complete this report. The FDA itself has not yet supplied guidance or instructions for how to complete the HPHC report. Traditional combustible cigarettes already undergo this testing and type of reporting to the FDA but cigar manufacturers have long argued that a premium cigar is vastly different from a combustible cigarette, thus the same testing method can’t be applied to both products.
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