Roll-your-own cigarette
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A roll-your-own (RYO) cigarette, also called a handrolled cigarette, is a cigarette made from loose tobacco (usually a shag cut) and rolling paper. Factory-made cigarettes are called industrial or tailor-made cigarettes.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Rolling tobacco
[edit]Rolling tobacco, or cigarette tobacco, is the primary tobacco used for RYO cigarettes. It is generally packaged in pouches.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
After 2009, the United States federal tax rate on RYO tobacco was raised from $1.0969 per pound to $24.78 per pound.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In Australia, loose tobacco was taxed less than manufactured cigarettes until September 2016.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Cigarette rolling
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Cigarette rolling may be done either by hand of with a Template:Ill. It should not be confused with Template:Ill.
In Russia a special kind of self-rolled cigarette was in use, called "goat's leg" (Template:Langx). A paper (commonly a newspaper paper) was rolled in a cone, which was bent in half in the middle and the wider part was filled with tobacco. In a way, it resembled a tobacco pipe.<ref>История самокруток и как их делают</ref>
Prevalence
[edit]Relatively few smokers in the US, only 6.7%, actually roll their own cigarettes.<ref name=":0" /> In contrast, this rate was 17.1% in Canada, 24.2% in Australia, and 28.4% in the UK.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref> Reasons for this difference include the generally lower price of traditional cigarettes in most states in the US compared to Canada and Europe.<ref name=":0" />
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