US States With the Lowest Share of Taxes From Tobacco

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

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