While tobacco use has been steadily declining, the 8.1 percent sales drop was the largest year-over-year decline since 2000, according to the state Board of Equalization. The number of cigarette packs sold in the state fell to 972 million, down from 2.8 billion in 1980. Last year, just 13 percent of the state's population smoked -- down from nearly 23 percent two decades earlier, according to the California...
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