While cigarette smoking rates have plummeted from nearly 50% of adults in the 1960s to just under 12% in 2022, people use other tobacco products at about the same rate as they always have.

Nearly overnight, roll-your-own brands like Criss Cross and Farmers Gold came off the shelves, replaced by pipe tobacco with the same names. The cuts may be slightly different, but they’re ...

For example, GAO investigators who visited a Washington, D.C., smoke shop in April purchased a 6-ounce bag of pipe tobacco for $13.77, while a same-size bag of roll-your-own tobacco cost $26.49.

The shop sells cigars, pipe tobacco,cigarettes and books (including ones about its namesake, the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes). But mostly it specializes in pipes, including high-end ones ...