The Department of Revenue Services claims the machines are commercial cigarette-making machines and retailers who operate them must obtain a cigarette-manufacturing license and pay the associated ...

Since its founding in 2008, the largest maker of the machines, RYO Machine LLC of Ohio, has gone from zero to 1,800 machines in 40 states. The company has 43 machines in New York, including two at ...

A small tobacco shop in Brookline has generated a make-your-own-cigarette operation that has throngs of smokers, plus the acting state attorney general, knocking at its door. Tobacco Haven, near the ...

Production of illicit cigarettes using machines, most of which come from China, have become more rampant as illegal tobacco trade shifted operations from smuggling cigarettes, BIR earlier said. The ...

A customer puts freshly rolled cigarettes into a bin at The Big Cat’s Smoke Shop. Sharon Catlin, left, and Michael Hatzisavvas are partners in The Big Cat’s Smoke Shop in Bristol, Conn.,which ...

THE BUREAU of Internal Revenue (BIR) has seized unregistered cigarette-making machinery in various locations as part of a broader crackdown on tax evasion in the tobacco industry, the Department of ...

“In the raids conducted by the BIR on several warehouses in Luzon and Mindanao, unlicensed cigarette-making machines, packing machines and filter-making machines were seized along with fake ...