Sometimes a cigar is just . . . a cigarette?

From: The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL) | Date: May 20, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Timothy J. Gibbons

May 20--For decades, Swisher International has filled the air around the Springfield neighborhood with the redolent aroma of dried tobacco, tobacco that it turns into 8.5 million cigars a day.

Or at least what Swisher produces has always been labeled a cigar.

Now, though, 40 state attorneys general are asking the federal government to reclassify some of those products as cigarettes, saying that "little cigars" -- thin, brown, finger-length smokes -- are really just cigarettes in disguise.

If the officials have their way, the changes ...

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