A request for an immediate injunction has been filed on behalf of roll your own (RYO) cigarette businesses like Maple Valley’s PJ Smoke Shack.

Karen Byrd, who runs the PJ’s Smoke Shack with PJ Abbott, said that although their smoke shop isn’t directly involved in the lawsuit, they are contributing financially to the RYO Coalition of America, which is helping to foot the legal costs.

“Most of us are funding it,” she said. “All of the vendors and members are affected one way or another, including shop keepers, vendors and the people that make the machines. The rest of us are doing our best to fund it even though all of our stores are shut down.”

With the smoke shack closed for almost two months, Byrd said that unless the injunction is successful she will be forced to get out of the business, although she added that she intends to wait until a decision is made.

Currently, Byrd said they have two leases, one in Maple Valley and another in Covington where they had hoped to open another smoke shop.

The injunction, filed Aug. 14 by Tobacco Outlet Express LLC and Fredom Filler LLC, seeks to halt the enforcement of an unusual provision within a federal highway bill that broadened the definition of a tobacco manufacturer to include RYO businesses, which makes them subject to the same federal excise taxes and regulations.