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A decline in U.S. cigarette consumption will lead to job cuts in the Richmond area's cigarettes industry.Altria Group Inc., the parent company of top U.S. cigarette maker Philip Morris USA, said Thursday that it will cut 15 percent of salaried employees supporting its cigarette business, with most job reductions coming by late February.The Henrico County-based company, one of the Richmond area's largest private employers, said the cuts are part of a plan to reduce annualized costs by $400 million by 2013.The company is making the cuts, even though third-quarter profits rose nearly 4...

Up in Smoke" That's what anti-smoking cigarettes advocates say has happened to a significant amount of money spent every year to spread smoking cigarettes prevention messages to your children.The money doesn't come from taxpayers. It comes from cigarettes store companies. The companies pay the state roughly $120 million every year as part of the huge settlement, known as the master discount cigarette online settlement, reached in the late 1990's. Each state then decides how to spend it. Most years roughly $12 million has gone to reach your kids with anti-smoking...

Minnesota’s first sale of buy cigarettes bonds may escape concerns about declining industry shipments and legal disputes that have caused the securities to underperform municipal and U.S. Treasury debt this year.Democratic Governor Mark Dayton plans to use $640 million of the proceeds to help balance his two-year budget. Legislators authorized the sale in a deal to end a 20-day government shutdown, the longest in a U.S. state since at least 2002, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.Tobacco bonds are backed by payments from producers based on cigarette shipments. The...

In an attempt to protect local children from secondhand smoke, Palm Springs parks have gone cold turkey.As of July, Palm Springs has been enforcing a smoking cigarettes ban at all public parks, including its skate park and sports fields where many parents have complained of smoking cigarettes near children or by children.“It's a dirty habit, so I think it's a great idea. It'll help keep the parks a little cleaner,” said Monica Haro of Palm Springs, a former smoker and mother of three young children.“It would be nice not to see butts on the ground,” Haro's friend, Mireya Contreras...

Cigarette smoking cigarettes in California has fallen sharply in recent years, but new research finds that hookah use is on the rise, especially among young adults.Between 2005 and 2008, the number of California adults who had ever used a hookah jumped by more than 40 percent, to 11.2 percent among men and 2.8 percent among women, according to researchers at UC San Diego. Among young adults ages 18 to 24, 24.5 percent of men and 10 percent of women had used a hookah in 2008.The findings, based on data from the California Tobacco Survey, offer the first look at hookah use in the state over...