Cigarette tax by state

Tobacco tax is charged before a pack ever reaches the shelf, so it never appears as a line on a receipt. Per pack it looks small. Over a year of buying one a day it does not. Below is what each state charges, sorted by the pack rate, with the yearly figure beside it. Federal tax is charged on top and is the same everywhere.

State cigarette excise per pack of twenty, with the annualized figure at a pack a day. ⚠️ Federal excise is excluded throughout, being uniform nationally. ⛔ Retail price is not modeled and no figure here is expressed as a share of it — this project holds no price dataset. Rates are specific rather than ad valorem, so they do not track price, and the interstate differentials below are large enough to drive measurable cross-border purchase and illicit trade.