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, addicts who visit Island Smokes, a “roll-your-own” cigarette shop in Chinatown, can walk out with an entire 10-pack carton for under $40, thanks to a yawning tax loophole [...]
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The high price of Richmond cigarettes has been burning a hole in Tina Ward’s wallet. A pack of her Pall Mall Oranges? Five bucks. A carton? She’s not even going there. “I haven’t bought a carton in months because they are too darn expensive,” said Ward, a homemaker from Indianapolis. “We’re talking $50 easily.” So [...]
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Wigan smokers were today being warned about the added dangers of couterfeit tobacco after a haul was confiscated during a raid on a local pound shop. After receiving a number of tip-offs from the public, Wigan Council’s Trading Standards officers organised the raid which led to the seizure of 1,300 Pall Mall cigarettes and 1.2kg of [...]
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Monte Carlo cigarettes and other brands have long been a subject of debate, and a Saginaw News story about issues faced by roll-your-own-cigarette shops was no different. The Michigan Department of Treasury has notified about 300 shops across the state — including Let’s Roll Tobacco, which has locations in Saginaw and Bay counties — that [...]
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New questions about whether a mid-Michigan tobacco business is breaking the law. The state sent about 300 notices to businesses around the state telling them that Pall Mall cigarette rolling machines are illegal. But a Lansing store owner says he’s doing nothing wrong. The RYO machine is capable of creating a carton’s worth of cigarettes [...]
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A new Eau Claire business has smokers rolling in to roll-their-own cigarettes. And they’re taking advantage of a tax loophole to save money. The business is called Holy Smokes! Customers buy loose tobacco, and use the firm’s sophisticated $30,000 machines to make their own Viceroy cigarettes. The cartons end up costing $31. That’s about half [...]
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