Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars’ vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants. Driven largely by ever-rising tobacco prices, ...

RACINE COUNTY - Some states are looking at make-your-own-cigarettes shops and smelling something foul. The Wall Street Journal reported that New Hampshire sued several retailers, contending they act ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A new and savvy player dealing in loose tobacco rolled and packaged in retail stores but taxed far less than cigarettes has beaten New York’s governor and Legislature again as well ...

The roll-your-own cigarette bill embroiled in a 5th District congressional campaign scandal garnered little attention during this year's session of the state General Assembly. But the proposal to ...

A General Assembly committee advanced legislation Wednesday that would declare retail businesses with roll-your-own cigarette machines to be cigarette manufacturers, subject to the same taxes and ...

NEW YORK • 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. Yet, smokers who visit Island Smokes, a "roll your own" ...

A Washington judge is blocking the collection of taxes on roll-your-own cigarettes. If the tax would have been collected, one store owner says she would have been driven out of business. Roll-your-own ...

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 shop in ...

The roll-your-own stores do not use the machines to make cigarettes for sale. Instead, they sell their customers rolling paper and loose-leaf tobacco, typically pipe tobacco, which is taxed at a lower ...