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community of Kansas. Within two years after the anti- 

 cigarette law was repealed there were about two dozen 

 wholesale tobacco estabhshments in Kansas. Their net 

 sales came to $9,065,954. 



mokers meet the tobacco tax 



By the end of 1969 the state had collected in the range 

 of $242 million gross from the cigarette tax. Much of this 

 yield was funneled into community improvements. The 

 excise was estabhshed in 1927 and had been increased 

 to 11 cents each package of 20 by 1970. 



The state tax is not the only one imposed on cigarette 

 smokers. They have also to pay a federal tax of 8 cents 

 on each package. There is a federal excise on all tobacco 

 products, a levy that brought $2,138,000,000 to the 

 United States Treasury in the fiscal year ending June 

 1969. Since 1863, when the tax on manufactured tobacco 

 was first collected, through 1969, users of tobacco have 

 contributed over $48 bilfion to the federal revenues. 



The people of the Sunflower State apparently do not 

 miss the rich, green fields of tobacco growing in numer- 

 ous other parts of America. Kansans seem now quite 

 satisfied to leave that agricultural industry to those com- 

 munities where it is well estabhshed. They are consumers 

 of the harvests of that industry. So long as the fine to- 

 bacco products of domestic factories continue to reach 

 them, they are content. 



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