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So, your total e-cigarette cost is $63 monthly. If you smoked a pack of cigarettes each day in the same time period, you would have spent $180 at the current average price of cigarettes. In a year, e-smoking would cost about $516, while cigarettes would cost an average of $2,160. Thatâs a savings of $1,644! The savings continue to mount if you live in one of the 24 United States and territories with an average cigarette tax of more than $1.46 per pack.
Cigarettes are cheap in California. Because current cigarette taxes are so low in California, cigarettes are cheaper here than in the US as a whole. According to The Tax Burden on Tobacco (page 182) in 2010 the average pack of cigarettes in California costs $5.374 compared to$5.554 for the US as a whole. The low price in California reflects the tobacco companies' success in keeping taxes in California; total taxes only comprise 35.0% of the price of a pack of cigarettes compared to 44.2% for the US as a whole. Cheap cigarettes promote smoking.