Instead of making dumb jokes why don't you do a little reserch and get ahead of me?

http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/nc/nc2b.htm

"The opportunity to distill tax money from tobacco was seized upon more vigorously at the time of the Civil War. On July 1, 1862, an ad valorem tax was imposed upon cigars for the first time. This tax was raised two years later when a separate tax upon cigarettes was also imposed (Werner, 1922: 358). (Even the Confederacy sought to levy a tax-in-kind upon tobacco crops, but was precluded from doing so by the inspection system which required the inspector to deliver the full amount of tobacco specified in the warehouse receipt (Robert, 1949: 117).)"

Another one bites the dust---- next. Someone try the fish I catch.