I don’t know about other places, but in Oklahoma it is illegal to buy cigarettes with those cards.
Her manager called the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services and was told that cigarettes — and beer — can be purchased with a cash (as opposed to a food) EBT card.
There are "cash" EBT cards! Special!
It’s illegal in Oklahoma and all states to buy cigarettes with the food stamp program -and- in addition to that - it simply “won’t work” on the electronic registers and terminals (which is where you use those electronic cards).
SO ... the bottom line ... is that it simply won’t happen and CANNOT happen, because it’s all done electronically.
HOWEVER a person can pay for cigarettes on that card - if they have the cash assistance program loaded onto that card. They don’t use the food stamp benefits (on that card) but they use the “cash assistance program” on that card - and that’s perfectly legal - even in Oklahoma.