You Can Have Your Cigarettes Just The Way You Want
Tobacconist Magazine says roll-your-own (RYO) is the tobacco industry’s most prolific segment of the tobacco industry. There are between 2-4 percent of cigarette smokers in the United States who roll their own smokes. That amounts to around 2.6 million people. For many of these smokers, the switch is due to the exceedingly high taxes on manufactured cigarettes. Compare this with Thailand, where years ago, the number of those who roll their own cigarettes surpassed those using manufactured brands. The paper is cheaper there, and the use of gum is mostly non-existent. A 2005 report from New Zealand points out that the ratio of roll-your-own to manufactured or custom cigarettes consumed by the local population has grown in the last decade at least. This may be a reflection of price differences between these products and is currently closer to 50 percent overall. All of these statistics only point to one thing: mankind is in the thick of the roll-your-own smoke revolution. This m...