The average retail price of a package of cigarettes 

 in Tennessee is 41.6 cents. A full 21 cents, or 50.5 

 percent of the retail price, is destined to terminate in 

 federal and state treasuries; not including local taxes 

 and the state sales tax. Funds from cigarette and other 

 tobacco revenues benefit all— smokers or not— and their 

 effect is visible through construction and maintenance 

 of schools, hospitals, roads, bridges and in community 

 services, just to name a few. 



Much more could be said about the composite to- 

 bacco industry based in Tennessee. But the essential 

 facts presented will serve to indicate the significance of 

 tobacco in the state's economy. The history of that 

 achievement is a dramatic one. 



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