Smoke shops ‘roll’ over
Six smoke shops that used “roll your own” machines to sell untaxed cigarettes have agreed to pack it in, officials announced yesterday.
Meanwhile, the state Attorney General’s Office joined in the city’s effort to snuff out the latest targets in the ongoing crackdown.
BB’s Corner in Brooklyn and Staten Island’s Nitecap Entertainment were hit with a jointly filed suit charging them with violating anti-bootlegging laws.
The Manhattan federal-court filing says the stores have been evading more than $58 per carton on roll-your-owns by letting customers use machines to automatically stuff tobacco into pre-rolled paper tubes.
The owners of BB’s Corner and Nitecap Entertainment didn’t respond to requests for comment.
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