Research Areas
Cigarette and Tobacco Taxes
Articles from the Tax Foundation
- Map: Cigarette Taxes as of January 1st, 2011, June 2, 2011
- Connecticut Governor Malloy Proposes Multifaceted Tax Plan, by Kailee Tkacz and Mark Robyn, March 14, 2011
- Facts & Figures Handbook: How Does Your State Compare?, edited by Mark Robyn, February 28, 2011
- State Cigarette Excise Tax Rates, as of January 1, 2011, February 25, 2011
- Joseph Henchman of the Tax Foundation on 2010 State Tax Changes, January 27, 2011
- State Tax Changes During 2010, by Joseph Henchman, January 12, 2011
- A Review of 2010’s Changes In State Tax Policy, by Joseph Henchman and Xander Stephenson, August 23, 2010
- Wishful Thinking About Tax Burdens in Ohio, by Mark Robyn and Rob Shrum, April 7, 2010
- High cigarette taxes stoke bootlegging, violence, by Patrick Fleenor, April 6, 2010
- State Sales, Gasoline, Cigarette, and Alcohol Tax Rates by State, 2000-2010, April 1, 2010
- Smoke and Mirrors on the Tobacco Tax Hike, by Patrick Fleenor, March 10, 2010
- Georgia Should Refrain from Relying on Smokers to Fill Budget Hole, by Justin Higginbottom, March 10, 2010
- Georgia Should Respond to Recession with Tax Reform, Not Tax Gimmicks, by Justin Higginbottom, February 19, 2010
- High-Income Counties Benefit Most from Georgia Tobacco Tax, Study Shows, February 18, 2010
- Georgia Tobacco Tax Favors High-Income Counties, by Patrick Fleenor, February 18, 2010
- Bush Tax Cuts, AMT Lead Tax Foundation List of Decade's Top Tax Stories, December 31, 2009
- Top 10 Tax Stories of the Decade, by TF Staff, December 30, 2009
- Fergus Cullen of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy: Connecticut Budget, September 16, 2009
- Some States Respond to Budget Shortfalls with Tax Increases, by Mark Robyn and Kail Padgitt, July 13, 2009
- The Dam Bursts in the Beaver State: Oregon’s Wave of Tax Increases and New Spending, by Joseph Henchman and Jack Mountjoy, July 9, 2009
- Higher cigarette taxes: unhealthy and unfair, by Patrick Fleenor, June 29, 2009
- Jamie Story of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii: Tax Hikes in the Aloha State, June 3, 2009
- The tyranny of taxing 'sin', by Patrick Fleenor, May 14, 2009
- The Price of Paradise: Hawaii Becomes Fifth State to Adopt New Income Tax Brackets on High-Earners, by Mark Robyn and Joseph Henchman, May 12, 2009
- Nanny Tax Rap Video, by Matt Moon, May 9, 2009
- Border Zone Cigarette Taxation: Arkansas’s Novel Solution to the Border Shopping Problem, by Mark Robyn, April 9, 2009
- The Effect of the Federal Cigarette Tax Increase on State Revenue, by Patrick Fleenor, April 1, 2009
- Letter to the Oklahoma Tax Commission on Cigarette Taxes, by Joseph Henchman and Mark Robyn, January 27, 2009
- Map: State Cigarette Tax Rates, 2009, January 27, 2009
- Funding S-CHIP with Federal Cigarette Tax Increase is Poor Tax Policy, by Joseph Henchman and Gerald Prante, January 15, 2009
- Give police a break: Leave the cigarette tax alone, by Patrick Fleenor, December 11, 2008
- Federal Excise Tax Rates, 1944-2008. Selected Years, November 9, 2008
- Economic Growth Requires Bold Steps: Mississippi Should Consider Tax Reform Recommendations, by Joseph Henchman, July 18, 2008
- Cigarette Taxes Are Fueling Organized Crime, by Patrick Fleenor, May 7, 2008
- Increasing Federal Cigarette Taxes Will Hurt State Cigarette Tax Revenues: The Case of a Double Mark-Up, by Gerald Prante, August 7, 2007
- State Tobacco Tax Rates Have Skyrocketed Since Last Federal Tax Increase, by Gerald Prante and Curtis S. Dubay, July 13, 2007
- Options for Funding SCHIP Expansion: Cigarette Taxes Least Defensible Alternative, by Gerald Prante, July 13, 2007
- What Is 300 Percent of the Poverty Level?, by Gerald Prante, July 11, 2007
- Cigarette Taxes Choke the Poor, by Gerald Prante, July 7, 2007
- A State-by-State Estimate of the Impact of SCHIP Expansion and a 156 Percent Cigarette Tax Hike, by Gerald Prante, June 28, 2007
- Who Will Pay Taxes for Tennessee Governor's "Schools First" Initiative, and Who Will Receive the Spending?, by Andrew Chamberlain and Gerald Prante, April 18, 2007
- Fraction of Each Quintile's Total Tax Burden Accounted for by Each Type of Tax, Calendar Year 2004 , April 1, 2007
- Average Dollar Tax Burdens by Type of Federal Tax, Per Household, Calendar Year 2004 , April 1, 2007
- Tax Fairness Would Suffer under Senator Smith's Cigarette Tax Hike, by Patrick Fleenor, March 30, 2007
- Estimating Federal Tax Burdens for Major City Areas, Counties, and U.S. Congressional Districts, by Andrew Chamberlain and Gerald Prante, March 22, 2007
- California Cigarette Tax Proposal Would Hurt State's Poorest, by Andrew Chamberlain and Patrick Fleenor, October 28, 2006
- Crime, Terror Benefit from Prop. 203 Cigarette Tax Hike in Arizona, by Patrick Fleenor, October 16, 2006
- Smugglers and Thieves Await Passage of California's Prop. 86 Cigarette Tax Hike, by Patrick Fleenor, October 12, 2006
- How the McCain Bill Will Affect Smokers' Wallets and the Underground Cigarette Market, by Patrick Fleenor, March 1, 1998
- The Regressivity of Sin Taxes: The Lifetime Tax Burden of Taxes on Alcohol and Cigarettes, by Robert B. Schwab and Andrew B. Lyon, November 1, 1997
- Excise Taxes and Sound Tax Policy, by John R. McGowan, May 1, 1997
- The Use and Abuse of Excise Taxes, by Dwight R. Lee, Ph.D., May 1, 1997
- Tax Reform and Excise Tax Policy Fundamentals Conference Proceedings, January 10, 1997
- Tax Differentials on the Interstate Smuggling and Cross-Border Sales of Cigarettes in the United States, by Patrick Fleenor, October 1, 1996
- Federal Non-Income Taxes: An Examination of Selected Revenue Sources, by TF Staff, April 1, 1965
- Federal Excise Taxes, by TF Staff, June 1, 1956
- Links to Other Tax Policy Resources, December 31, 1969