Like a sugar-starved child standing before a candy dispenser, a customer at V & K Smoke Shop in Quincy marvels at the 5-foot-tall, square machine churning out sticks of tobacco. The machine spits out ...

At least four roll-your-own tobacco shops that offer premium cigarettes at half the price of a carton of brand-name cigarettes have opened around the state in the past year. Customers save money by ...

It’s fast and it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than buying smokes already packaged for sale. That’s the selling point behind machines that allow smokers to roll their own cigarettes at a pace of one every ...

In New York City, taxes on cigarettes are $5.85 per pack, but stores that contain high-speed rolling machines that let smokers do it themselves slip through a loophole, which allows them to sell a ...

Proprietors of roll-your-own tobacco shops have smoked out a loophole they believe will re-ignite their business. But anti-smoking advocates are already looking to snuff them out. The shops, in which ...

WOOD DALE, Ill.—Scores of tobacco retailers in the U.S. are taking advantage of a federal tax loophole to offer deep discounts on roll-your-own cigarettes. But the practice is attracting scrutiny from ...

Charlie Saliby and his family, who own Guimond Farms in Fall River, are fighting a cigarette war of sorts — one that hasn’t officially started in Massachusetts but is hovering on the horizon. “My ...