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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But these machines “had no import permits and the manufacturer who used them did not have a permit to operate, making the entire process illegal,” Dominguez said.