Maine collected increasing amounts of excise tax revenue from non-cigarette tobacco products like smokeless tobacco from 1998 to 2011, rising from $2.89 million in 1998 to $11.57 million in 2011. In 2005, Maine changed its smokeless tobacco excise tax from a flat rate per unit to a weight-based system of $2.02 per ounce, with a minimum of $2.02 per canister, which contributed to higher and steadier revenue collection in subsequent years.

1. Non-Cigarette Tobacco Excise Tax Revenue
Maine, 1998-2011
Prepared by the Maine Public Health Association, Data Courtesy of Maine Revenue Services, July 2011
$14.00
Smokeless tobacco excise tax
changed to a weight based
$12.00 system, with a tax of $2.02 $11.27
charged per ounce of
tobacco, and a minimum of $11.57
$2.02 per canister.
$10.00
$8.00
Millions of $
$6.74 $6.85
$6.00
$6.00
$5.45
$4.00 $4.44
$4.02 $3.98
$3.41 $3.52
$3.14
$2.89
$2.00 $2.65
$0.00
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2001