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Tobacco Taxes

Smoke-Free Laws Do Not Harm Business at Restaurants and Bars

Electronic Cigarettes Should be Included in Smoke-free Laws

U.S. State and Local Tobacco Taxes

Raising Cigarette Taxes Reduces Smoking, Especially Among Kids (and the Cigarette Companies Know It)

Raising Tobacco Taxes: A Win-Win-Win

Excerpts from the 2012 & 2014 Surgeon General's Reports Supporting Tobacco Tax Increases

Raising State Cigarette Taxes Always Increases State Revenues and Always Reduces Smoking

Responses to Misleading and Inaccurate Cigarette Company Arguments Against State Tobacco Tax Increases

Significant Tobacco Tax Increases Reduce Tobacco Use, Particularly among Youth, Despite Tobacco Company Price Discounts and Promotional Efforts

Tobacco Tax Increases are a Reliable Source of Substantial New State Revenue

State Cigarette Excise Tax Rates and Rankings

Map Showing State Cigarette Tax Rates

Cigarette Tax Increases By State Per Year, 2000-2024

Trends in Average State Cigarette Tax Rates

State Excise and Sales Taxes Per Pack of Cigarettes - Total Amounts and State Rankings

Local Government Cigarette Tax Rates

Top Combined State-Local Cigarette Tax Rates (State plus County plus City)

State Cigarette Tax Rates and Rank, Date of Last Increase, Annual Pack Sales and Revenues, and Related Data

State Cigarette Tax Increases Since Jan. 1, 2002 (With Political Party of Sitting Governor and Legislature)

State Excise Tax Rates for Non-Cigarette Tobacco Products

State Benefits from Increasing Smokeless Tobacco Tax Rates

How to Make State Cigar Tax Rates Fair and Effective

The Problem with RYO and Other Smoking Tobacco

The Case for High-Tech Cigarette Tax Stamps

State Cigarette Tax Increases Per Year (& Recessions) Since 1980

Tobacco Tax Increases Benefit Lower-Income Smokers & Families

State Tobacco Tax Increases Have a Minimal Impact on State Retailers and Jobs

Explanations and Sources for Projections of New Revenues and Benefits from State Tobacco Tax Increases

The Many Ways States Can Raise Revenue While Also Reducing Tobacco Use and Its Many Harms and Costs

State Options to Prevent and Reduce Cigarette Smuggling and to Block Other Illegal State Tobacco Tax Evasion

Effect of State Tobacco-Tax Increases on MSA and Phase II Payments to the States

State Cigarette Tax Increases and State Tobacco Settlement Revenues

The New York Story: Revenues from a $1.42 Per Pack Cigarette Tax Increase

Findings from an Indiana Statewide Survey

U.S. Federal Tobacco Taxes

Increasing Federal Taxes Reduces Tobacco Use (and the Tobacco Companies Know It)

Creating Tax Equity Among All Tobacco Products Would Sharply Increase Federal Revenues and Promote Public Health

Tobacco Tax Increases are a Reliable Source of Substantial New Federal Revenue

Tobacco Tax Increases Benefit Lower-Income Smokers & Families

In Their Own Words: What the Tobacco Companies Say About Tobacco Tax Increases and Price

Taxes on Other Tobacco Products

Excerpts from the 2012 & 2014 Surgeon General's Reports Supporting Tobacco Tax Increases

State Benefits from Increasing Smokeless Tobacco Tax Rates

How to Make State Cigar Tax Rates Fair and Effective

The Problem with RYO and Other Smoking Tobacco

State Excise Tax Rates for Non-Cigarette Tobacco Products

Reducing Tobacco Smuggling and Tax Evasion

State Options to Prevent and Reduce Cigarette Smuggling and to Block Other Illegal State Tobacco Tax Evasion