While legal in most countries, in 2009 the U.S. Senate passed a bill effectively banning Kreteks from being sold in the United States. To work around this many kretek brands started to sell Kreteks as little cigars as opposed to cigarettes. Indonesia has been trying to fight the law, since they export $500 million dollars worth of Kreteks a year. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.