Like a sugar-starved child standing before a candy dispenser, a customer at V & K Smoke Shop in Quincy marvels at the 5-foot-tall, square machine churning out sticks of tobacco. The machine spits out ...

At least four roll-your-own tobacco shops that offer premium cigarettes at half the price of a carton of brand-name cigarettes have opened around the state in the past year. Customers save money by ...

The increase in cigarette taxes has led some Iowans to roll their own smokes to take advantage of lower taxes on loose tobacco. Some tobacco shops in the state took it another step and purchased ...

Holy Smokes doesn't make cigarettes, co-owner Josh Winrich said. His customers do. "We are in the rental business," Winrich said of his roll-your-own cigarette machines. "The customer buys the tobacco ...