Thomas Brant, Executive Director, National Association of Tobacco Outlets, Minneapolis, writing online in the Mason City Glob-Gazette:
With a $1 increase, five bordering states will offer significantly lower prices on tobacco. Consumers from neighboring states like Nebraska will no longer cross the Missouri River to buy cheaper cigarettes and gas if prices skyrocket in Iowa.
Iowa's tax would go from 36 cents to $1.36 a pack.
South Dakota is $1.53 a pack. Minnesota is almost $1.50. Illinois is 98 cents. Wisconsin is 77 cents. Nebraska is 64 cents. (source)
And Missouri's tax is only 17 cents a pack.
One thing you can't miss on I-35 south is the town of Eagleville, Missouri. It's the first exit with a town south of the Iowa border. Eagleville basically sells three things: cigarettes, fireworks, and fuel. I bet once Chet Culver signs the tobacco tax increase into law, their business should go up even further.
And don't forget: Come in and say you saw our web page on the Eagleville Website, and get a free gross (144 count) of bottle rockets with a $10.00 purchase!
Now, for your day's entertainment, Fred & Barney smoking Winstons:
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