Friends of Tobacco

Sam Cowden

Tyler Haynes

Taxes

• 31% of tobacco sales goes to federal, state and local treasuries

• Tobacco generated 6 billion dollars in federal taxes

• It generated 9 billion in state and local funds

Taxes

• Personal income taxes, corporate taxes, general sales and use of taxes at all levels, the tobacco industry contributed more than $35 billion in government revenues

Direct Jobs

• Wholesalers employed 664,200 people as a result of tobacco sales

• It provided 15 billion dollars in wages and compensation

Indirect Jobs

• 1,150,111 indirect jobs and almost 39 billion dollars in wages and compensation

Effect on other industries

• Paper and allied arts made $1.2 billion from the tobacco industry

• Printing and publishing industry made $1.9 billion

• Transportation industry made $535 million worth of services

Snuff

• 62 million pounds of snuff were sold last year

• Totaling- 208,530,000 dollars• Taxes- 64,644,300 dollars

Cigarettes

• 485 billion cigarettes were sold last year

• Totaling- 97 billion dollars

Cigars

• 2.3 billion cigars were sold• 115,000,000 dollars were made

Chewing Tobacco

• 61.8 million pounds of chew were sold