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Jump to full article: Manchester (NH) Union-Leader, 2009-08-19
Author: PAT GROSSMITH New Hampshire Union Leader Staff
Intro: The state of New Hampshire is suing a Brookline businessman who is charging customers $20 for a carton of cigarettes they roll themselves.
According to Assistant Attorney General David Rienzo, Joseph Correia Jr. of Tobacco Haven in Brookline has two machines customers use to make their own cigarettes. Customers buy tobacco and other cigarette components and then are directed to the machines and taught how to operate them, according to Rienzo.
Each machine can churn out about 200 cigarettes -- a carton -- in about 10 minutes. Customers pay $26 a carton, about $30 less than the going price of a pre-packaged carton.
Atty. Jeffrey Burd of Cincinnati, Ohio, who represents Correia, said Tobacco Haven disputes it is a manufacturer.
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