The tax on cigarettes is 37 cents per pack containing 20 cigarettes, 23% of the wholeseller's price for cigars, 5 cents each for small cigars and a tax of 10% of wholesale price for loose or smokeless tobacco
Here in the Carolinas, the most common tick-borne diseases include Lyme disease, Bourbon virus, Ehrlichiosis, Heartland virus, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STARI)
Smoking as an Environmental Health Problem
Comparison of the amount of nicotine absorbed after a puff of different forms of cigarettes
However, it does have some drawbacks as a smoke odor eliminator
"Over the last 50 years, 20 million Americans died because of tobacco