Illinois's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.980
Illinois's excise tax collection for the fiscal year ending June 2004: $744,402,000

- Sales tax on tobacco products: 6.25%
- Tobacco products sales tax collection for the fiscal year ending June 2004: $189,078,000
- Local tax on tobacco products: $94,252,187
- Federal excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.39
- Total federal excise tax collections in fiscal year 2004: $7,778,569,117
- Number of six-packs of beer that must be sold in Illinois to produce the same state excise tax and settlement revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 137
- Number of bottles of wine that must be sold in Illinois to produce the same state excise tax and settlement revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 97

Master Settlement Agreement Payments Received According to the GAO*

$1,615,633,226 has been paid to Illinois through Fiscal Year 2004 since the Master Settlement Agreement was signed on November 23, 1998.

*Payment amounts based on figures from the March 2005 GAO report, "TOBACCO SETTLEMENT - State's Allocations of Fiscal Year 2004 and Expected Fiscal Year 2005 Payments."