$13.00 per pack
This law does not apply to e-cigarettes and other vaping products. As a reminder, effective June 1, 2018, this law also increased the minimum price of cigarettes to $13.00 per pack. For more information, visit www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/smoke/cig-min-price.pdf.
The state excise tax rate is $5.35 per package of 20 cigarettes. The New York City local excise tax is $1.50 per package of 20 cigarettes, bringing the combined tax rate for a package of 20 cigarettes purchased in New York City to $6.85.
New York State spends approximately $9.7 billion annually on preventable smoking-related health care costs and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network projects the impact of the higher tax will save 15,300 New Yorkers' lives and prevent 14,400 youth under age 18 from becoming adults who smoke.