Cigar-ette?

• Position: STATELINE - Federal regulations on tobacco companies - Brief article

Thirty-nine states and Guam are lobbying to change federal regulations that allow tobacco companies to classify certain products as little cigars rather than cigarettes. Taxes on cigars are significantly lower, and cigars don't have the same advertising and health restrictions imposed on them. The attorneys general claim the only distinction between little cigars and cigarettes is that the little cigars are brown. But industry officials contend that...