I’m headed out of town for about a week. Going to California. It’s funny that I briefly considered ordering snus there because the snus taxes are lower. Imagine that, buying tobacco in California is cheaper than Texas. In fact, at the beginning of September, smokeless taxes went up again here in Texas. Now it’s $1.13 [...]

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 [...]