The tax herein required to be collected by any distributor shall constitute a debt owed by the distributor to this State, except when such distributor is relieved, by Section 3 hereof, of the duty of affixing tax stamps to the original packages of cigarettes by virtue of his being required by the Cigarette Tax Act to affix stamps to the same original packages of cigarettes, or (in the case of manufacturers of cigarettes in original packages which are contained inside a sealed transparent wrapper) when such distributor is relieved, by Section 3 hereof, of the duty of placing tax imprints underneath the sealed transparent wrapper of original packages of cigarettes and of remitting tax to the Department with respect thereto by virtue of his being required by the Cigarette Tax Act to place such tax imprints on the same original packages of cigarettes and to remit tax with respect thereto to the Department.