Each wholesale dealer in cigars, cheroots, stogies, cigarettes, smoking tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff, or any substitute therefor, either or all, shall pay one privilege license tax to the state of $100 and $5 to each county in which such wholesale dealer does business. The phrase "wholesale dealer" as used in this section shall include persons, firms, corporations, clubs, or associations who shall sell or store or offer to sell any one or more of the articles enumerated herein to retail dealers for the purpose of resale only. The privilege license tax herein levied shall be in addition to the sales tax as provided in Section 40-25-2.
Ala. Code § 40-12-73 (1975)