The March 24 news article "Cigar aficionados smoldering over possible rules" reported that the cigar industry is pushing legislation to exempt "traditional large and premium" cigars from Food and Drug Administration regulation. Unmentioned was that the legislation would exempt hundreds of millions of cigars from regulation, including machine-made cigars that are mass-produced at a rate of 10 per minute. It would also prevent the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from taking any action to ban the use of candy flavoring in traditional large and premium cigars.