PHOTO GALLERY: Roll On Premium Smokes to end rolling Friday
July 5, 2012 | 5:49 p.m. CDT
Bruce Hendren, owner of Roll On Premium Smokes, decided to end rolling Friday after a new law passes. The law regulates and taxes roll-your-own tobacco stores. Hendren opened the store in June 2011 on East Broadway.
Bruce Hendren, owner of Roll On Premium Smokes, sits beside the tobacco rolling machine, RYO Filling Station, Thursday afternoon in his store on East Broadway. Hendren purchased the machine for $32,000 and opened the store in June 2011.
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A cigarette comes out of a tobacco rolling machine Thursday afternoon at Roll On Premium Smokes. The store owner's mother, Verda Hendren, who is also an employee there, said the machine can make 200 cigarettes in eight to 10 minutes.
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Smaller tobacco rolling machines line up in a corner of the store Thursday afternoon. Verda Hendren said these machines can make 20 cigarettes in two minutes.
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