State Cigarette Excise Taxes:  2009

Updated November 2009

Cigarette Excise Tax Rates (in $) by Tax Rate	Cigarette Excise Tax Rates (in $) by State Name
Cigarette Excise Tax Facts	State Tax Legislation & Rate Changes, 2007-08
2009 Proposed State Tobacco Tax Increase Legislation
2007 State Cigarette Excise Tax Rates	2006 State Cigarette Excise Tax Rates

The federal cigarette excise tax will increase to $1.00 on April 1, 2009 as part of the State Children's Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP) bill that was signed into law by President Obama on February 4, 2009. 

 
Cigarette Excise Tax Facts

• At least twelve states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, and Utah, use cigarette excise tax revenue to fund their tobacco control programs.
• Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
• The U.S. Center for Disease Control & Prevention estimates that smoking-caused health costs total $7.18 per packed sold and consumed in the United States.
• According to the CDC, cigarette smoking was estimated to be responsible for $193 billion in annual health-related economic losses in the United States ($96 billion in direct cost and $97 billion in lost productivity).
• Adolescents and young adults are more responsive than adults to changes in cigarette prices.
• Increasing a cigarette excise tax can result in stockpiling of cigarettes prior to the implementation of the tax and a temporary drop in sales immediately following the tax increase.

Sources:
The American Lung Association. "Current Cigarette Excise Tax Rates". State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues: 2008.
The American Lung  Association. "SLATI Database". State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues: 2008.
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. Fact Sheet: Economic Facts about U.S. Tobacco Use and Tobacco Production. Updated July 2007.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fact Sheet: Fast Facts. Updated April 2008.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Reducing Tobacco Use: A Report of the Surgeon General. Updated 2000.
Federation of Tax Administrators, State Excise Tax Rates on Cigarettes. January 2009.

NCSL. Health Care Provider, Industry and Tobacco Taxes and Fees.

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