US States With the Highest Share of Taxes From Tobacco

51 US states ranked by share of taxes from tobacco, from highest to lowest. First are New Hampshire (2.56), Oklahoma (1.97) and Alaska (1.87). The middle one of the 51 has 0.833.

What this measures

The percentage from tobacco taxes. New Hampshire is highest at 2.6%. That reflects its neighbors' high tax rates more than its own smoking: a low-tax state surrounded by high-tax ones sells to people from both. Source: Census government finances.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

Every state

Rank	State	% of all taxes
1	New Hampshire	2.56
2	Oklahoma	1.97
3	Alaska	1.87
4	Rhode Island	1.63
5	West Virginia	1.53
6	Wisconsin	1.51
7	Kentucky	1.38
8	Vermont	1.36
9	Maine	1.35
10	Michigan	1.32
11	Delaware	1.32
12	Arkansas	1.32
13	Oregon	1.29
14	Minnesota	1.21
15	Pennsylvania	1.2
16	Ohio	1.16
17	South Dakota	1.07
18	Montana	1.01
19	Indiana	0.996
20	Iowa	0.885
21	Colorado	0.88
22	Maryland	0.874
23	Louisiana	0.867
24	Florida	0.862
25	Mississippi	0.839
26	Connecticut	0.833
27	Nevada	0.831
28	Illinois	0.802
29	Texas	0.72
30	Alabama	0.698
31	Arizona	0.657
32	Tennessee	0.612
33	New Jersey	0.586
34	Kansas	0.579
35	Massachusetts	0.573
36	Hawaii	0.556
37	Virginia	0.545
38	Washington	0.543
39	Utah	0.495
40	North Carolina	0.49
41	California	0.47
42	Wyoming	0.456
43	South Carolina	0.454
44	New Mexico	0.441
45	Idaho	0.415
46	Georgia	0.395
47	Nebraska	0.377
48	New York	0.352
49	Missouri	0.319
50	North Dakota	0.297
51	District of Columbia	0.0913

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