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Show Foundation Notes Revenues from High Taxed Items ( Tobacco, beer and liquor sales in Utah during the 1SHU calendar year amounted to $TG.4 million or $61.60 per capita. This fact was brought out in an analysis prepared by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. organ-ization. According to the Foundation study, tobacco product sales in Utah last year are estimated at $20,027,203, or $21.88 per capita; beer sales amounted to $17,773.-or $17,773.-or $19.42 per capita, and liquor sales total $18,6.13,305, or $20.36 per capita. These figures are all taken from estimate prepared pre-pared by the Utah State Tax Commission. The report notes that last year C4.359.935 packs of cigarettes, 7.-899.133 7.-899.133 gallons of beer, 410.307 gallons of ot distilled spirits were sold in Utah. Foundation analysts point out ; that the apparent consumption ! of tobacco products and alcolhol- j ic beverages In Utah is well b"-1 low national averages. In fiscal j 1961, for example, Utah had the lowest ler capita sales of cigar-ettes cigar-ettes in the nation. Tax-paid '' cigarette sales in Utah amounted to 71.2 packs per capita, compared com-pared with a national average of 133.6 packs per capita. Similarly, the study shows that per capita consumption of distilled dis-tilled spirits for 1959 was 0.76 gallons per person in Utah com- j pared with a national average of i 1.31 gallons per capitp. Only sir i states (including Mississippi ard Oklahoma, which werediy at the; time) ranked below Utah In thel apparent consumption of distil-1 led spirits. The foundation als points out that five of the six states ranking below Utah were Southern States which generally general-ly have significant traffic in Illegal Il-legal (and thus not reported) liquor sales. |