"It's not FDA-regulated," he said
[9] Maja Bajac-Carter and Norma Jones, Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet: An Exploration of Early Cigarette Advertising, in We Are What We Sell: How Advertising Shapes American LifeAnd Always Has Volume 1 , e
Hard-core tobacco smugglers and people who repeatedly smuggle, distribute and sell illicit tobacco could be hit by a fourfold increase in fines together with tough new civil penalties, as part of plans to crackdown on the smuggling of illicit tobacco.
Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2004
The difference in cheap cigars is due chiefly to the weight of the material, but also to the quality of the tobacco and the labour, machinery being used in the manufacture of the lower qualities, whereas the higher qualities are nearly all hand made