I've yet to see "stats" done by anyone other than those to whose benefit it is to make it seem so. I know I've talked with smoke shops who say they can't keep loose tobacco in stock and that up to a third of their customers have begun making their own. Also remember not long ago Bill Lockyer whining that Kookiefornia is losing more than $400 million a year by folks "evading" the taxes. In my own circle of smoker friends, far more than half either buy online or make their own; the others drive Jaguars and Beemers and couldn't care less, even though I nag every time I see them. Dang traitors.