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Jump to full article: Central Valley Business Times (Stockton, CA), 2010-07-27
Intro: Californians bought 8.1 percent fewer cigarettes in 2009-10 than they did a year earlier, according to a new report Tuesday, released by Barbara Alby, acting member of the State Board of Equalization.
This is the largest decline since 1999-2000 when the decline was 11.2 percent.
Cigarette distribution peaked in 1980 and has declined 65.6 percent over the last 30 years, the report says. Since 1980-81, tax-paid cigarette distributions have declined an average of 3.5 percent per year, or a decline of an average of 59 million packs per year.
Both the percentage of smokers and the number of cigarettes smoked have declined.
The report points to health concerns, smoking restrictions and higher prices as key factors in the downward trend in tax-paid cigarette distributions.
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