A growing number of smokers are bypassing commercial brands and rolling their own cigarettes, at home or at a specially equipped business location.
Savings are the main draw. Roll-your-own smokers typically use pipe tobacco, which is taxed at a lower rate than tobacco made for cigarettes.
At We Roll in Cape Coral, for example, a 200-cigarette carton costs $27.50, including the 6 percent state sales tax. That’s about half the cost of a carton of brand-name products.
Savings of nearly 50 percent or more are not uncommon at other area stores catering to roll-your-own cigarette customers. The biggest part of the discount comes from roll-your-own operations using pipe tobacco, which is taxed at a much lower rate than cigarette tobacco.
“Some people say they save as much in a month as their car payment,” said Russ Peterson, co-owner of the We Roll Cheap Cigarettes LLC operating in Lee and Collier counties.
In the past two years, Peterson and business partner Lou McQuaid have opened five stores. They expect to open a sixth company-owned store as early as next week east of Fort Myers, near Palm Beach Boulevard and Buckingham Road.
The We Roll in Cape Coral occupies the former WaMu bank branch at the Coral Pointe shopping center. It’s outfitted with popular magazines, a patio table set and additional perky-red chairs for customers waiting to use the rolling machines. Framed portraits of vintage celebrities with cigarettes -- including Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, and Lucille Ball -- adorn the walls. Country music plays softly.
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