Roll-your-own cigarette

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A roll-your-own cigarette

A roll-your-own (RYO) cigarette, also called a handrolled cigarette, roll-up or rollie, is a cigarette made from loose tobacco (usually a shag cut) and rolling paper. Factory-made cigarettes are called industrial or tailor-made cigarettes.[1][2] U.S. federal law defines ‘roll-your-own tobacco’ as tobacco that, because of its appearance, type, packaging, or labeling, is suitable for use and likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as tobacco for making cigarettes.[3]

Rolling tobacco

Rolling tobacco, or cigarette tobacco, is the primary tobacco used for RYO cigarettes. It is generally packaged in pouches.[4]

After 2009, the United States federal tax rate on RYO tobacco was raised from $1.0969 per pound to $24.78 per pound.[5] 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.[6]

A Tobacco Control (BMJ) analysis reported that after the U.S. federal tax disparity was created, retailers began offering cigarette rolling machines for consumers to use.[7] The U.S. Government Accountability Office reported in 2025 that because pipe tobacco is taxed at a lower rate than roll-your-own tobacco, ‘consumers who hand roll cigarettes may have an incentive to use pipe tobacco’, and that manufacturers also had an incentive to relabel products as pipe tobacco.[8]

In Australia, loose tobacco was taxed less than manufactured cigarettes until September 2016.[9] Australia’s tax treatment of loose (per-kilogram) tobacco products such as roll-your-own tobacco is being aligned with the per-stick excise rate for manufactured cigarettes by progressively lowering the ‘equivalisation weight’ from 0.7 grams to 0.6 grams, with the new weight fully in effect from 1 September 2026.[10]

In the United Kingdom, HM Revenue & Customs raised tobacco duty rates from 30 October 2024, applying the standard tobacco-duty escalator and increasing the duty rate for hand-rolling tobacco by an additional 10% (to 12% above the Retail Price Index).[11] In January 2026, a Tobacco Control (BMJ) study discussed the UK affordability gap between hand-rolling tobacco and factory-made cigarettes and modelled scenarios for increasing hand-rolling tobacco duty to reduce that gap.[12]

Ireland’s Budget 2026 (October 2025) increased tobacco excise, with the government reporting pro-rata increases applying to other tobacco products, including roll-your-own tobacco.[13][14]

Cigarette rolling

German cigarette roller

Cigarette rolling may be done either by hand of with a cigarette roller [de]. It should not be confused with cigarette stuffer [de].

"Goat's leg" rolling

In Russia a special kind of self-rolled cigarette was in use, called "goat's leg" (Russian: козья ножка). 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.[15]

Prevalence

Relatively few smokers in the US, only 6.7%, actually roll their own cigarettes.[16] In contrast, this rate was 17.1% in Canada, 24.2% in Australia, and 28.4% in the UK.[16] Reasons for this difference include the generally lower price of traditional cigarettes in most states in the US compared to Canada and Europe.[16]

See also

References

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  3. ^ Products, Center for Tobacco (8 December 2022). "Section 900 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act - Definitions". FDA.
  4. ^ Scollo, Michelle; Zacher, Meghan; Coomber, Kerri; Bayly, Megan; Wakefield, Melanie (April 2015). "Changes in use of types of tobacco products by pack sizes and price segments, prices paid and consumption following the introduction of plain packaging in Australia". Tob Control. 24 (Suppl 2): ii66–ii75. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-052071. PMC 4401343. PMID 28407614.
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  6. ^ "Bill Would Close Tax Code Loophole on Roll-Your-Own Tobacco". Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  7. ^ Tynan, Michael A.; Morris, Daniel; Weston, Tara (1 June 2015). "Continued implications of taxing roll-your-own tobacco as pipe tobacco in the USA". Tobacco Control. 24 (e2): e125–e127. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051531. ISSN 0964-4563. PMID 24721968.
  8. ^ "Tobacco Taxes: Federal Revenue Implications of Tax Rate Differences and Drawback Refunds" (PDF). Retrieved 20 January 2026.
  9. ^ "The truth about rollies? Warning: it ain't pretty". quit.org.au. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Excise duty rates for tobacco". www.ato.gov.au. Archived from the original on 18 November 2025. Retrieved 20 January 2026.
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  12. ^ Chen, Ryan Kai Le; Morris, Damon; Angus, Colin; Gilmore, Anna; Hiscock, Rosemary; Holmes, John; Langley, Tessa Elisabeth; Pryce, Robert; Wilson, Luke Brian; Brennan, Alan; Gillespie, Duncan (6 January 2026). "Reducing the exceptional affordability of hand-rolling tobacco using tax escalators: a health and economic impact modelling study for England". Tobacco Control. doi:10.1136/tc-2025-059670. ISSN 0964-4563. PMID 41494920.
  13. ^ "50c increase on pack of cigarettes, alcohol duty unchanged". Retrieved 20 January 2026.
  14. ^ "Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise". www.oireachtas.ie. Retrieved 20 January 2026.
  15. ^ История самокруток и как их делают
  16. ^ a b c Young, D; Borland, R; Hammond, D; Cummings, KM; Devlin, E; Yong, HH; O'Connor, RJ (2006). "Prevalence and attributes of roll-your-own smokers in the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey". Tob Control. 15 (Suppl 3): iii76–82. doi:10.1136/tc.2005.013268. PMC 2593057. PMID 16754951.
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