TY - JOUR T1 - More tobacco is used in cigarette tubes than is taxed as roll-your-own tobacco in the USA JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 118 LP - 118 DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052514 VL - 26 IS - 1 AU - Daniel S Morris Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/26/1/118.abstract N2 - Since federal tax rates increased in 2009, manufacturers have relabelled cigarette tobacco as pipe tobacco to evade taxes.1 Based on methods previously reported,2 I estimate over US$3.5 billion in federal tobacco tax revenue was lost to this tax evasion by the end of 2014, and states lost hundreds of millions more. The tax change was coincident with a technological innovation: a high-speed machine that could combine a bag of loose tobacco and a box of empty cigarette tubes to produce a carton of cigarettes in about 8 min.1 As these machines quickly spread around the country, smokers discovered they could cut their costs substantially—in some cases buying cartons for a half or a third of the price they were … ER -