• FY2017, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act; P.L.114-254, Further Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017; issues related to tobacco products.
• H.R.564/S.294, Traditional Cigar Manufacturing and Small Business Jobs Preservation Act of 2017; issues related to tobacco products.

Duration: September 1, 2016 to April 1, 2017

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Tobacco

Spending: about $20,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2016: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives

Affiliated organizations: International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association