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Colorado Information
Tobacco Taxes
Colorado's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.200
Colorado's excise tax collection for the
fiscal year ending June 2002: $58,518,000
Sales tax on tobacco products: 2.90%
Federal excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.39
Total federal excise tax collections in fiscal year 2002: $7,512,700,000
Number of six-packs of beer that must be sold in Colorado to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 44.4
Number of bottles of wine that must be sold in Colorado to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 36.1
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Colorado Smokers' Contributions to the State Economy - FY2002
In 2001, Colorado smokers comprised only 22.3%1 of the adult population in the state. Here is what they already pay because they choose to buy a legal product:
Smokers Pay Excise Taxes2
$ 58,518,066
Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments3
$ 97,988,866
TOTAL $ 156,506,932
- Working Families Pay More1
30.6% of Colorado smokers had household income LESS THAN $25,000
16.4% of Colorado smokers had household income EQUAL TO or GREATER THAN $75,000
The impact of smoker payments on the incomes of working families was more than THREE TIMES the impact on higher income smokers. Those who can afford it least pay
