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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 ...

The retailer’s lawyers say what goes into the rolling machines already is a cigarette so nobody’s manufacturing anything. The justices didn’t indicate Wednesday when they would rule.

Typically, customers pay about $40 for 8 ounces of loose tobacco, 200 hollow cigarette tubes and the use of the machine. Employees tell customers how to operate the computerized rolling machines.

The automated rolling machines, called RYO Filling Stations, weigh out the tobacco selected by the customer, then compress and inject it into empty paper tubes to create each cigarette.

The loose tobacco has a smaller tax rate, and the consumers can save up to 50% if they switch to rolling cigarettes. However, it is just matter of time until loose tobacco gets a higher tax rate ...

"This is not about taxes," said Phil Accordino, president of Ohio-based RYO Machine LLC, which makes cigarette-rolling machines. "This is about legislating winners and losers." ...