Roll-your-owners smoked
They’re no longer on a roll.
Two “roll-your-own” tobacco stores — one in Chinatown, the other on Staten Island, and both the bane of tax collectors — have agreed to shut down by Feb. 1, city officials said yesterday.
Island Smokes, which operates both locations, had been skirting cigarette-tax laws by providing customers with loose tobacco, tubes of cigarette paper, and in-store access to cigarette-making machines — essentially, selling untaxed cigarettes, officials said.
The company had been sued by city lawyers, and agreed to close in settlement of that suit, according to the Law Department.
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