A tax loophole that allows customers to buy pipe tobacco and make their own cigarettes may have cost New York State $17 million in lost taxes over the past two years.

The April 2009 tax changes caused more smokers to buy pipe tobacco for rolling cigarettes, which they call “sticks.” At the same time, the demand for now-heavily taxed “roll-your-own ...

Charities are handing out free crack pipes on LA’s Skid Row — and addicts just sell them to buy more drugs ...