Cigarette taxes, by the numbers
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Total taxes on a pack of cigarette:
Chicago
City: 68 cents a pack
Cook County: $2 a pack
Illinois: 98 cents a pack (does not reflect the $1 increase passed Tuesday)
Federal: $1.0066 a pack
Total tax: $4.67 a pack
Cook County suburbs
Cook County: $2 a pack
Illinois: 98 cents a pack (does not reflect the $1 increase passed Tuesday)
Federal: $1.0066 a pack
Total tax: $3.99 a pack
Rest of Illinois
Illinois: 98 cents a pack (does not reflect the $1 increase passed Tuesday)
Federal: $1.0066 a pack
Total tax: $1.99 a pack
Comparison of state tax rates per pack of cigarettes as of 1/1/2012:
New York: $4.35
Rhode Island: $3.46
Connecticut: $3.40
Hawaii: $3.20
Washington: $3.02
New Jersey: $2.70
Vermont: $2.62
Wisconsin: $2.52
Massachusetts: $2.51
Alaska: $2
Arizona: $2
Maine: $2
Maryland: $2
Michigan: $2
Montana: $1.70
Utah: $1.70
New Hampshire: $1.68
New Mexico: $1.66
Delaware: $1.60
Pennsylvania: $1.60
Minnesota: $1.60
South Dakota: $1.53
Texas: $1.41
Iowa: $1.36
Florida: $1.33
Ohio: $1.25
Oregon: $1.18
Arkansas: $1.15
Oklahoma: $1.03
Indiana: 99 cents
Illinois: 98 cents
California: 87 cents
Colorado: 84 cents
Nevada: 80 cents
Kansas: 79 cents
Mississippi: 68 cents
Nebraska: 64 cents
Tennessee: 62 cents
Kentucky: 60 cents
Wyoming: 60 cents
Idaho: 57 cents
South Carolina: 57 cents
West Virginia: 55 cents
North Carolina: 45 cents
North Dakota: 44 cents
Alabama: 42 cents
Georgia: 37 cents
Louisiana: 36 cents
Virginia: 30 cents
Missouri: 17 cents
History of Illinois’ cigarette tax:
The state imposed its first tax on cigarettes in 1941 at a rate of 2 cents per pack. Here is how the tax has changed since then:
1947: 3 cents a pack
1959: 4 cents a pack
1960: 3 cents a pack
1961: 4 cents a pack
1965: 7 cents a pack
1967: 9 cents a pack
1969: 12 cents a pack
1985: 20 cents a pack
1989: 30 cents a pack
1993: 44 cents a pack
1997: 58 cents a pack
2002: 98 cents a pack
Recent revenue from the cigarette tax
2002: $468.8 million
2003: $624.9 million
2004: $741.8 million
2005: $638 million
2006: $621 million
2007: $617.9 million
2008: $592.4 million
2009: $561 million
2010: $557.8 million
2011: $560.8 million
Source: Illinois Tax Handbook for Legislators, General Assembly’s Legislative Research Unit
