Tobacco Pricing

Reports

Model legislation establishing a minimum retail sales price for cigarettes (and other tobacco products) – ChangeLab Solutions. This document provides an innovative option for states where substantial excise tax increases are not feasible to increase the price of cigarettes and other tobacco products by creating a statutory minimum sales price for these products and eliminating retail price manipulation by the tobacco industry. The model policy contains three options for establishing an effective minimum price, including setting a "flat rate" minimum price and improving an existing "markup-style" minimum price.

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State Policy

States target electronic cigarettes for revenue potential – NACS: The Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing. While the FDA continues to assess how it will regulate electronic cigarettes, states are moving ahead with their own agendas, many of them looking to tax the devices. Currently, only Minnesota has a specific tax policy for e-cigarettes, subjecting them to a 95% tax that is tacked onto the wholesale cost of the product. At least thirty other states are considering e-cigarette taxes for 2014.

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