If you were a doctor, would you live in BF Texas for four years in exchange for $160,000?
As it turns out, probably not.
According to the Lubbock Journal, the $1.32 minimum tax on smokeless tobacco that went in to effect last year isn’t getting doctors to live in shitty places. Why? Living in a shitty place [...]

Today is the due date for the first round of ultra-high smokeless tobacco taxes in Texas. Let’s hope that consumers said a hearty, “Go fuck yourselves” to the state legislature and found ways to legally avoid the tax.
Since the beginning of September, smokeless tobacco in Texas has been taxed at least $1.32 per tin. The [...]

Good news for people who buy from Pennsylvania-based snus warehouses. Lawmakers appear to have decided to leave cigar and smokeless tobacco alone despite the estimated $70 million a tax would generate in revenue.
Pennsylvania, like many states, faces a budget shortfall. But a tax on snus and other tobacco products would just chase Internet retailers out [...]

Apparently, the legislators have passed a law to tax tobacco and send it to health care. Here’s an excerpt of the text:
“the tax rate for each can or package of a tobacco product other than cigars is $1.22 per ounce and a proportionate rate on all fractional parts of an ounce.”
Since a typical snus tin [...]