You may be surprised, it may even be more.
Last weekend I sat down and actually did the math. In the 2 years that my husband and I have been making our own cigs we have cost the state of Delaware an average of over a thousand dollars each year in taxes and MSA payments alone, and Delaware cig taxes are only 2.40 a carton. We have also kept over 600 a year from the Feds.
These are just the sin taxes on the cigs we are saving. The average for a carton of major brand cigs arond here is about $24 - at least $10 of that is taxes and MSA payments, so you're looking at roughly $14 in cost for the carton before taxes. Our cigs cost us $6.50 carton.
In this 2 smoker household we are saving well over 2 grand a year. But what is really sweet, about 1500 of it is money that would have otherwise gone to the government.