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, ...

Shops that provide roll-your-own cigarette machines to allow customers to create a low-priced product are facing legislation that could cause revenues to dwindle and impact hundreds of jobs in Ohio.

Island Smokes, the place where you can go roll your own cigarettes for way less than you’d pay for a regular pack, has decided to shut down on February 1st rather than face the city’s lawsuit. The ...

Apparently out of bigger fish to fry, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — in cahoots with New York City Corporation Counsel Michael Cordoza — has set his sights on small tobacco; he’s filed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Capital Region tobacco retailers are bracing for the heavy federal tax increase set to hit products April 1, but customers may have to think twice if they hope to sidestep the tax hike by turning to ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington judge blocked the collection of taxes on roll-your-own cigarettes Monday, citing a voter-approved initiative that makes it harder for lawmakers to raise taxes.

WASHINGTON -- With a simple marketing twist, tobacco companies are avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars a year in taxes by exploiting a loophole in President Obama's child-health law. Obama and ...