Rejected petition: Legally separate premium handmade cigars from all other tobacco products.
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Cigars should be treated as a separate class of product to other tobacco products due to the inherent nature of their production, retail and consumption - an organic, handmade product, stored at great cost over long periods of time, sold only by specialist retailers to specialist consumers.
Premium handmade cigars are grown organically; rolled by artisans; stored, transported and preserved under costly, controlled conditions; distributed and sold by specialist retailers under highly-regulated opaque marketing conditions; and sold to a specialist section of consumers for consumption or collection over an extended period of time. Premium handmade cigars and consumers HAVE NOT been the subject of a focused health study in UK and cannot therefore be treated as other tobacco products.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. We are not sure how you would like cigars to be treated differently from other tobacco products.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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