{"id":67701,"date":"2016-08-30T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67701"},"modified":"2016-08-30T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T13:21:58","slug":"fda-rule-cuts-off-troops-cigar-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67701","title":{"rendered":"FDA rule cuts off troops&#8217; cigar donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/business\/cigars-for-the-troops\/2291318\">The Tampa Bay Times<\/a> reports that a new Food &#038; Drug Administration rule that became effective August 8th may forbid cigar donations to troops deployed overseas;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the regulations is what many interpret as a ban on the charitable donation of tobacco products. Premium cigarmakers and retailers like Thompson that have donated thousands of cigars each year risk fines or other sanctions if they keep giving.<\/p>\n<p>Their hands, they say, are tied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The troops are out there putting their lives on the line to protect our freedoms, rights and privileges, and the federal government is taking away those same freedoms and rights,&#8221; said Rocky Patel, owner of Rocky Patel Premium Cigar Co. in Bonita Springs. &#8220;This is how we can give back to our country and it&#8217;s amazing the FDA unilaterally seeks to take that away. It just hurts me we&#8217;re not going to be able to do this anymore.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I sent my son a box of La Gloria Cubana Miami-rolled, torpedo-shaped cigars and it was the bright spot of his Afghanistan tour.<\/p>\n<p>If the Feds want to make tobacco illegal, they should just go ahead and do that instead of nibbling around the edges of the regulation of a legal product. I say that as a consumer of said legal product.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bobo for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Times reports that a new Food &#038; Drug Administration rule that became effective &hellip; <a title=\"FDA rule cuts off troops&#8217; cigar donations\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67701\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FDA rule cuts off troops&#8217; cigar donations<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}