We pay $5.75 for a bag of tobacco, menthol or regular, and there is just a surcharge. Not a tax.
This bag makes a carton of cigarettes. We buy the filtered tubes, 200 in a box, for $1.99.
Couldn't be happier!
We pay $5.75 for a bag of tobacco, menthol or regular, and there is just a surcharge. Not a tax.
This bag makes a carton of cigarettes. We buy the filtered tubes, 200 in a box, for $1.99.
Couldn't be happier!
You are correct. But loose tobacco is taxed differently than are cigarettes. In most locales the tax is based on the wholesale price of the "package" of tobacco. Similar to a sales tax.
Most loose tobacco for RYO cigarettes is not coming from the major tobacco companies, instead it is coming from smaller companies with lower overhead and so they can provide it at lower cost, thus further lowering the excise taxes imposed.
I generally purchase my tobacco in 1 pound bags for $11.25. Prefiltered tubes average $2.50 a carton. A pound bag of tobacco yeilds me 3 cartons of cigarettes for $6.25 per carton.
Lots of other advantages besides paying less into the state coffers on excise txes - no MSA payments, none of the additives found in the major manufacturers product, a slower burning cigarette, one that will go out if left for any length of time in an ashtray, and there is less residual odor of stale smoke.
But the best benefit, to me at least, is it giving the middle finger to states and their money grubbing way and to the major cigarette companies for selling out their clientele with the MSA.