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Commonwealth Brands, Inc. Says FDA Regulation Represents a Lost Opportunity 

"It is a great disappointment that this Congress, which claimed to be so different and supposedly heralded a new era for the United States has seen fit to enact legislation that is over a decade old."

A spokesperson for Commonwealth Brands, Inc., the manufacturer of USA Gold cigarettes, stated that, "the enactment of this law represents a golden opportunity lost. Congress has passed up a unique chance to develop a regulatory framework for the tobacco industry that could have been effective, efficient and proportionate. Instead, this law will only serve to threaten the survival of small manufacturers, and punish their law abiding, hard working consumers. At the same time it will reward big tobacco companies, whose practices were the genesis for this legislation. In short, the additional cost of complying with this law will hurt the very people that the government claimed to be helping."

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