Roll-your-own cigarette

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A roll-your-own cigarette

A roll-your-own (RYO) cigarette, also called a handrolled cigarette, roll-up or rollie, is a cigarette made from loose tobacco (usually a shag cut) and rolling paper. Factory-made cigarettes are called industrial or tailor-made cigarettes.[1][2]

Rolling tobacco

Rolling tobacco, or cigarette tobacco, is the primary tobacco used for RYO cigarettes. It is generally packaged in pouches.[3]

After 2009, the United States federal tax rate on RYO tobacco was raised from $1.0969 per pound to $24.78 per pound.[4] This increase has caused many people to switch to using pipe tobacco to make cigarettes, since the pipe tobacco tax rate was also increased, but only to $2.83 per pound.[5]

In Australia, loose tobacco was taxed less than manufactured cigarettes until September 2016.[6]

Cigarette rolling

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"Goat's leg" rolling

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Prevalence

Relatively few smokers in the US, only 6.7%, actually roll their own cigarettes.[8] In contrast, this rate was 17.1% in Canada, 24.2% in Australia, and 28.4% in the UK.[8] Reasons for this difference include the generally lower price of traditional cigarettes in most states in the US compared to Canada and Europe.[8]

See also

References

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External links

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