On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will discuss and vote on whether it will send the PACT Act to the Senate for a full vote.
This would be kind of a bummer for buying snus online. Either it would either make it illegal or put a bunch of hoops so that it would be a pain [...]

Looks like smokeless tobacco (including snus) and large cigars will get no new taxes in Pennsylvania. The senate passed the bill sent to them by the house yesterday and the Governor has said that he’ll sign it. Cigarettes and small cigars are getting hit with a 25 cent per pack tax increase.

Not surprisingly, the Pennsylvania Senate was hostile to the House version of the budget, which would have raise smokeless tobacco rates, and is pushing yet another version. This version taxes table games at slots casinos, cigarette and natural gas drilling and removes the controversial taxes on on arts venues, small games of chance licensees, smokeless [...]

In the House version of the Pennsylvania state budget sits a new tobacco tax. The new tax, if it becomes law, would increase the retail price of tobacco sold in Pennsylvania by 30%. This would give the state a tax on cigarettes and smokeless tobacco for the first time. It would also no longer be [...]