CHICAGO (MarketWatch) - A report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed a huge increase in consumption of cigars and loose tobacco products last year - enough to offset the ongoing decline in cigarette consumption . The CDC said that cigarette consumption was down 2.5% last year, part of a more than decade-long trend. However, consumption of other forms of smoked tobacco products spiked more 17% between 2010 and 2011. The big publicly-traded tobacco firms in the U.S. are Altria Group (US:MO), Reynolds American (US:RAI) and Lorillard [LO].
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