{"id":358653,"date":"2026-09-28T10:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358653\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:38:10","slug":"new-york-has-americas-highest-state-cigarette-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358653\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Has America\u2019s Highest State Cigarette Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person who smokes one pack of cigarettes a day in <a href=\"https:\/\/ecigone.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York pays <\/a>$1,952.75 a year in state cigarette taxes. That is more than $1,890 higher than what a pack a day smoker pays in Missouri, the state with the lowest cigarette tax in the country.<\/p>\n<p>New York Charges $5.35 Per Pack<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s state cigarette tax is $5.35 for every pack of 20 cigarettes. That is the highest state cigarette tax in the United States. Over one year, a person who buys one pack each day pays $1,952.75 in New York State cigarette tax. That number does not include the cost of the cigarettes themselves. It also does not include sales tax or local taxes.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Smokers Pay Even More<\/p>\n<p>People who buy cigarettes in New York City pay an added local cigarette tax of $1.50 per pack. That means the state and city cigarette taxes together add up to $6.85 on each pack sold in New York City, before sales tax is added.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Has the Lowest Tax<\/p>\n<p>Missouri charges just 17 cents in state tax per pack of cigarettes. That works out to $62.05 a year for someone who smokes one pack a day. New York\u2019s state tax is more than 31 times higher than Missouri\u2019s. Maryland had the second highest state cigarette tax at $5 per pack. Rhode Island came in third at $4.50 per pack.<\/p>\n<p>Higher Prices Can Encourage People to Quit<\/p>\n<p>The numbers come as the American Cancer Society\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/risk-prevention\/tobacco\/great-american-smokeout.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Great American Smokeout<\/a> approaches on November 19th. The event encourages people who smoke to make a plan to quit or to begin a quit attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing illegal ad promoting cigarettes <\/p>\n<p>These cigarette television ads are not illegal, although check out the big movie star<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Kevin Miller <\/p>\n<p>Smoking Linked To 12 Cancers In New York State<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 12 most common tobacco-related cancers\u00a0between 2016-2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person who smokes one pack of cigarettes a day in New York pays $1,952.75 a year in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,12],"class_list":["post-358653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}