Ala. Code § 45-2-244.003
The tax herein levied shall be paid through the use of one stamp as herein provided for. The one stamp shall be used to designate or represent the county license tax, and municipal license or privilege tax, if any is levied by a municipality within the county, collected on the sale of each package of cigarettes. It is intended that this one stamp be used in place of separate stamps for county license taxes and city or town license or privilege taxes. It is further intended that no city may impose or affix an additional stamp or stamps. It being the purpose and intent of this subpart that the tax hereby levied is in fact a levy on the ultimate consumer or user with the wholesaler, distributor, jobber, or retail dealer acting merely as an agent for the county, and, if appropriate, the city or town, for the collection and payment of the tax levied by this subpart and any existing city license or privilege taxes, and the intent being that such license tax hereby required shall be paid but once on each package of cigarettes.
Ala. Code § 45-2-244.003 (1975)