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GIRARD, Ohio - The owner of RYO Machine Rental says the transportation bill that President Obama has signed off on will effectively shut his business down.

At Cheap Tobacco in Girard customers who have enjoyed significant savings by renting machines to roll their own cigarettes can no longer do that.

They say President Obama signed a jobs killing bill that was pushed by big tobacco and passed by Congress. Business owners say the bill might help save transportation jobs, but rolls over thousands of jobs across the country.

Customers tell us the bill hurts people trying to save money on a legal product and takes away consumer choice.

The employees who still have jobs feel lucky, but hundreds of others locally will be out of a job.

The owner of Rolling Smokes in Newton Falls will be laying off three employees at the end of this pay period and try to make it through the end of his lease selling tobacco and tubes.

In Girard, where the roll your own machines are manufactured, 50 jobs could be lost. The president of RYO Machine Rental Phil Accordino says he has to lay off all the workers in the plant because there's no sense in making these machines if you can't use them.

Accordino said right after President Barack Obama swept through the Valley touting jobs he signed the bill that will eliminate about five thousand jobs across the country. Other's estimate the losses will be higher due to the trickledown effect.

"We had a gentleman from the Ohio - West Virginia border say he has one machine and he's going to lay off eight people. So if you equate eight people to 2,000 machines that's 16 thousand jobs," said Anthony Rozzo an employee at Cheap Tobacco

Some customers say they will not be going back to buying name brands.