Editing Rolling paper (section)

==Consumption==
===United States===
[[File:Rukok Ôn.JPG|thumb|Rolling paper from ''[[Nypa fruticans]]'' leaf]]

In 2008, Tobacconist Magazine called [[roll-your-own]] (RYO) the tobacco industry's fastest growing segment. It estimates that 2–4% of cigarette smokers in the United States, or approximately 2.6&nbsp;million people, make their own cigarettes. Many of these smokers have switched in response to increasingly high taxes on manufactured cigarettes.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/nyregion/roll-your-owns-cut-taxes.html | title=Roll-Your-Owns Cut Taxes | work=The New York Times |date=14 October 2002 |last1=Peterson |first1=Iver }}</ref><ref>[http://www.ttb.gov/statistics/200812tobacco.pdf TTB stats] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090512103513/http://www.ttb.gov/statistics/200812tobacco.pdf |date=2009-05-12 }}.</ref>

===Canada===
In 2000, a Canadian government survey estimated that 9% of [[Canada]]'s six&nbsp;million cigarette smokers smoked hand-rolled cigarettes "sometimes or most of the time", 7% smoked roll-your-owns "exclusively", and over 90% of rolling papers sold in Canada were for tobacco consumption.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}{{Needs update|date=April 2023|reason=This study was performed before cannabis legalization, which resulted in an increase in cannabis consumption, and likely an decrease in the percentage of rolling paper purchased for use with tobacco instead of cannabis.}}  A more recent 2009 study has shown that approximately 925,000 Canadians roll their own cigarettes.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The roll-your-own cigarette market in Canada: a cross-sectional exploratory study|first1=Scott T|last1=Leatherdale|first2=Murray|last2=Kaiserman|first3=Rashid|last3=Ahmed|date=16 March 2009|journal=Tob Induc Dis|volume=5|issue=1|pages=5|doi=10.1186/1617-9625-5-5|pmid=19291309|pmc=2666659 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
[[File:Packet of cigarette rolling papers from Lebanon.jpg|thumb|Ungummed rolling paper packet from Lebanon]]

===United Kingdom===
According to ''The Publican'', "Low price RYO has seen an astonishing rise of 175% in [2007] as cigarette smokers look for cheaper alternatives and to control the size of their smoke".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?sectioncode=7&storycode=55450&c=1 |work=The Publican |title=Tobacco sales drop in Scotland }}</ref> The [[National Health Service]] has reported that roll-your-own use has more than doubled since 1990, from 11% to 24%. Many of these smokers apparently believe that hand-rolled cigarettes are less harmful than manufactured products,<ref>{{cite web |work=BBC News |title=Smoker poll reveals roll-ups myth |date=May 30, 2006 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5031088.stm |access-date=26 August 2024 }}</ref> although it is equally possible that the increase is due to the steep rise in prices since the early-1990s to the present day.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nicare-ecigarettes-direct.co.uk/cigarette-prices-have-risen-by-80-since-1990/|title=Shop For E-Cigs, E-Liquids & Vapes with free UK delivery}}</ref>

===Thailand===
In [[Thailand]], smokers of roll-your-own cigarettes have long outnumbered smokers of manufactured brands.<ref>''"Cigarette Consumption"'', Thailand Health Promotion Institute [http://www.thpinhf.org/Cigarette_consumption.pdf PDF document] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721183425/http://www.thpinhf.org/Cigarette_consumption.pdf |date=2006-07-21 }}.</ref> A 2008 survey found that 58% of surveyed smokers in Thailand rolled their own cigarettes, compared to just 17% in neighbouring Malaysia.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Young |first1=David |last2=Yong |first2=Hua-Hie |last3=Borland |first3=Ron |last4=Ross |first4=Hana |last5=Sirirassamee |first5=Buppha |last6=Kin |first6=Foong |last7=Hammond |first7=David |last8=O'Connor |first8=Richard |last9=Fong |first9=Geoffrey |date=May 2008 |title=Prevalence and correlates of roll-your-own smoking in Thailand and Malaysia: Findings of the ITC-South East Asia Survey |url=https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article-lookup/doi/10.1080/14622200802027172 |journal=Nicotine & Tobacco Research |language=en |volume=10 |issue=5 |pages=907–915 |doi=10.1080/14622200802027172 |pmid=18569766 |issn=1462-2203|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

===New Zealand===
The [[New Zealand]] [[Ministry of Health (New Zealand)|Ministry of Health]] reported in 2005 that: 'The ratio of roll-your-own to manufactured or tailor-made cigarettes consumed by New Zealanders has risen over (at least) the past decade, perhaps reflecting price differences between these products, and currently approaching 50 percent overall.'<ref>Ministry of Health, ''"Seeing through the Smoke: Tobacco Monitoring in New Zealand"'', Public Health Intelligence: Occasional Bulletin (26), 2005 [http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/0/EE0D7A5314318292CC257014000078DF/$File/seeingthroughthesmoke.pdf PDF document].</ref>

===India===
As the prices of cigarettes rise year after year, roll-your-own is becoming a trend among Indian smokers. Rolling papers and rolling tobacco are now easily accessible and can be bought at almost any Pan Shops in India.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}