[4] This increase has caused many people to switch to using pipe tobacco to make cigarettes, since the pipe tobacco tax rate was also increased, but only to $2.83 per pound.
[5] In Australia, loose tobacco was taxed less than manufactured cigarettes until September 2016.
In Russia a special kind of self-rolled cigarette was in use, called "goat's leg" (Russian: козья ножка).
A paper (commonly a newspaper paper) was rolled in a cone, which was bent in half in the middle and the wider part was filled with tobacco.
[8] Reasons for this difference include the generally lower price of traditional cigarettes in most states in the US compared to Canada and Europe.