Roll your own cigarette machines drawing controversy Credit: KREM 070611-rollyourown.jpg Author: KREM Staff, KREM.com Published: 10:25 AM PDT July 7, 2011 Updated: 10:25 AM PDT July 7, 2011 ...

The state says roll-your-own machines turn tobacco shops into cigarette manufacturers. But shop owners say they’re just in the rental business– and they’re not going down without a fight.

The dispute between the Wisconsin Department of Revenue and roll-your-own tobacco stores has cost the Portage location and several other area stores about 50 percent of their business, two co-owners ...

"A cigarette by any other name is still a cigarette," Miller said in a news release issued Friday. "Our concern is that these roll-your-own machines are skirting the law just enough to make their ...

Meanwhile, Ohio-based RYO Filling Station, one of the major suppliers of roll-your-own cigarette machines, promises on its website that tobacco shops interested in the $32,500, ATM-sized equipment ...

There is no place in the U.S. more expensive to smoke than New York City, where the taxes alone will set you back $5.85 per pack. But addicts who visit Island Smokes, a roll-your-own cigarette ...

Sen. Pam Jochum, D-Dubuque, said owners of roll-your-own machines that cost about $35,000 have set up storefronts, including one in Davenport, where customers can purchase loose tobacco and tubes ...

The machines can churn out 200 cigarettes in eight minutes as the customer waits, compared to the nearly three hours it takes in small roll-your-own devices used at home.

Henrico County-based Philip Morris, for instance, is selling three-quarter-ounce pouches of L&M brand roll-your-own tobacco, enough to make a bit more than 20 cigarettes, for $4 in Maine and Michigan.

The Legislature voted earlier this year to force roll-your-own cigarette stores to collect the state’s 15-cents-per-cigarette tax, with lawmakers arguing that they were simply enforcing an ...

Technavio has published a new market research report on the global roll-your-own-tobacco products market from 2019-2023. (Graphic: Business Wire) Full Size Small Preview Thumbnail Full Size Small ...

Meanwhile, Ohio-based RYO Filling Station, one of the major suppliers of roll-your-own cigarette machines, promises on its website that tobacco shops interested in the $32,500, ATM-sized equipment ...