They found that from 2012 - adjusting for inflation - average real prices for the cheapest factory-made and
roll-your-own products remained steady.
It also prohibits cigarettes and
roll-your-own tobacco withcharacterising flavours, and requires the tobacco industry to submit detailedreports to the health ministry on the ingredients used in tobacco products.
Data on retail tobacco sales of cigars, smokeless and other tobacco products such as pipe tobacco and
roll-your-own, were analyzed using interrupted time series methods, estimating changes in flavoured and non-flavoured tobacco product inflation-adjusted dollar sales overall, and by product type.
A "priority list" list of additives allowed in cigarettes and
roll-your-own tobacco would be laid down by the European Commission.
To enable comparisons with pipe tobacco and
roll-your-own tobacco, CDC converted the tax data from pounds of tobacco to a per cigarette equivalent, based on the conversion formula contained in the Master Settlement Agreement (0.0325 oz [0.9 g] = one cigarette).* Adult per capita cigarette consumption was estimated by dividing total consumption by the number of persons aged [greater than or equal to]18 years in the United States each year using data from the U.S.
In addition to being exposed to higher levels of tar, Lewis said
roll-your-own smokers tended to have habits which increased their level of addiction, including not using filters and drawing more intensively.
"The resurgence of
roll-your-own was fostered unknowingly by the government," Mr.
On
roll-your-own (RYO) products, Brussels said it would "look at the taxation of RYO tobacco", with sales "dramatically increasing, especially among young people", mainly because of "lower taxes on RYOs than on cigarettes".
It added that its share of the UK
roll-your-own market continued to increase.
The company said it had made a good start to the year in the UK, maintaining its market-leading positions in cigarettes and
roll-your-own tobacco.
Roll-your-own tobacco sales also boosted Imperial's domestic sales, helping group underlying profits to increase by 13 per cent to pounds 1.01 billion - in line with analysts' expectations.
The Convenience Stores and Newsagents Association said a proposed EU ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes and increasing the minimum weight of
roll-your-own tobacco would drive smokers towards the smuggled sector in Ireland.
