{"id":9476,"date":"2016-12-09T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-takes-action-against-four-tobacco-manufacturers-for-illegal-sales-of-flavored-cigarettes-labeled-as-little-cigars-or-cigars\/"},"modified":"2016-12-09T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:34:00","slug":"fda-takes-action-against-four-tobacco-manufacturers-for-illegal-sales-of-flavored-cigarettes-labeled-as-little-cigars-or-cigars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-takes-action-against-four-tobacco-manufacturers-for-illegal-sales-of-flavored-cigarettes-labeled-as-little-cigars-or-cigars\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA takes action against four tobacco manufacturers for illegal sales of flavored cigarettes labeled as little cigars or cigars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued warning letters to four tobacco manufacturers \u2014 Swisher International Inc., Cheyenne International LLC, Prime Time International Co. and Southern Cross Tobacco Company Inc. \u2014 for selling flavored cigarettes that are labeled as little cigars or cigars, which is a violation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The companies received warning letters for products under the \u201cSwisher Sweets,\u201d Cheyenne,\u201d \u201cPrime Time\u201d and \u201cCriss-Cross\u201d brands in a variety of youth-appealing flavors, including grape, cherry, wild cherry and strawberry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued warning letters to four tobacco manufacturers \u2014 Swisher International Inc., Cheyenne International LLC, Prime Time International Co. and Southern Cross Tobacco Company Inc. \u2014 for selling flavored cigarettes that are labeled as little cigars or cigars, which is a violation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-takes-action-against-four-tobacco-manufacturers-for-illegal-sales-of-flavored-cigarettes-labeled-as-little-cigars-or-cigars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FDA takes action against four tobacco manufacturers for illegal sales of flavored cigarettes labeled as little cigars or cigars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-reacalls-safety-notices-information","category-drug-safety-information-podcasts","category-food-drug-recalls","category-food-safety-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}