http://www.geocities.com/shelioness/ncarolina.html
NORTH CAROLINA SMOKERS' CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STATE ECONOMY - 2001
North Carolina smokers comprise only 26.1% of the adult population in the state. Here is what they already pay because they choose to buy a legal product:
Smokers Pay Excise Taxes $ 39,682,700
Smokers Pay Sales Taxes $ 95,238,480
Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments $138,700,000
$273,621,180
Unless you were referring to the contribution of individual smokers, I don't see how the info reinforces your arguement that their contributions are petty, but I don't wish to get into trivial sparrings....