When purchasing a pack of cigarettes, the average cigarette smoker currently pays: $1.01 in federal excise tax, $1.91 in state excise tax, $0.66 in master settlement cost, and $0.36 in average state sales tax[17] For a pack-a-day smoker that translates to roughly $1,435 per year in taxes on cigarettes, but the proposal would increase that total to $1,823 per year
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