Small Business Fair Trade Act; enact.

This bill would have increased the presumed cost of doing business for cigarette wholesalers in Mississippi from 2% to 4.5% of the basic cost of cigarettes, and raised the presumed cartage cost from 0.5% to 1%. These changes would directly affect cigarette wholesalers by adjusting how costs are calculated under the Unfair Cigarette Sales Law. The provisions would make it harder to prove "unfair" sales by presuming higher costs for wholesalers, potentially reducing legal challenges against their pricing. The bill specifically targets wholesale cigarette dealers' cost calculations without altering other aspects of the law.