[Just another Joe]

"The next step" PUFF

If they can tell you how to live, they can tell you where to live as well.

If they can mandate you can't, they can mandate you MUST.

[SheLion]

Take a look at just how much Pennsylvania smokers are contributing to that state's economy!

Pennsylvania Information

Tobacco Taxes

Pennsylvania's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $1.350
Pennsylvania's excise tax collection for the
fiscal year ending June 2002: $331,645,000

Sales tax on tobacco products: 6.00%

Federal excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.39
Total federal excise tax collections in fiscal year 2002: $7,512,700,000

Comparing Excise Taxes on Cigarettes, Beer

Number of six-packs of beer that must be sold in Pennsylvania to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 222.2

Pennsylvania Smokers' Contributions to the State Economy - 2002

In 2001, Pennsylvania smokers comprise only 24.5%1 of the adult population in the state. Here is what they already pay because they choose to buy a legal product:

Smokers Pay Excise Taxes2
$ 331,645,347

Smokers Pay Sales Taxes2
$ 202,804,803

Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments3
$ 411,219,801

Total $ 945,669,951

Pennsylvania Smoker Facts 5

Pennsylvania smoker payments in FY2002 were:

Five times larger than FY2001 excise taxes on alcoholic beverages ($187.6 million).

Larger than Pennsylvania's FY2001 motor fuels tax revenues ($785.7 million).

More than two-thirds (68%) as large as FY2001 state net corporate income tax collections ($1.4 billion).


The total amount paid by smokers in Pennsylvania in FY2002 would have supported available FY2002 general fund amounts for:

Special Education ($861.4 million)
OR

Community and Economic Development ($461.7 million) AND Environmental Protection ($245.6 million) AND State Police ($178 million) COMBINED
OR

Health ($256.5 million); and the Higher Education Assistance Agency ($412.8 million) COMBINED.

In 1997, smokers provided 18,943 jobs that paid an additional $28.2 million to the state in personal and corporate income taxes.6

TOTAL SMOKER CIGARETTE PAYMENTS TO PENNSYLVANIA

Per year:
$ 945,669,951

Per day:
$ 2,589,103

Per hour:
$ 107,879

Per minute:
$ 1,798

Per second:
$ 30

CIGARETTES DON'T PAY TAXES -
PENNSYLVANIA SMOKERS DO!!