{"id":1082,"date":"2012-06-15T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2012-06-15T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:52:11","slug":"white-house-petition-to-be-delivered-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"White House Petition to be Delivered Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. President:<\/p>\n<p>The FDA is considering the creation of regulations for the premium cigar industry. These regulations will jeopardize over 85,000 American jobs, destroy America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mom &amp; pop\u00e2\u20ac\u009d premium cigar retailers &amp; manufacturers, and risk over 250,000 jobs in Latin American that produce cigars, impacting the economic\/political stability in the region.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you will stand up for small businesses that dot Main Street America &amp; recognize that premium cigars are enjoyed by adults, are not addictive and therefore do not conform to the Congressional intent of the Family Smoking Prevention &amp; Tobacco Control Act.<\/p>\n<p>Tell the FDA to leave our premium cigars alone. With this nation&#8217;s more pressing issues, harming my simple ability to enjoy a cigar should not be a priority of the government.<\/p>\n<p>The petition is<a href=\"https:\/\/wwws.whitehouse.gov\/petitions\/!\/petition\/not-allow-fda-regulate-premium-cigars\/BKspSSnN?utm_source=wh.gov&amp;utm_medium=shorturl&amp;utm_campaign=shorturl\"> HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. President: The FDA is considering the creation of regulations for the premium cigar industry. These regulations will jeopardize<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=1082\"> [Read the full story &#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cigar-industry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p16MGD-hs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}