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Smoke Stiks as seen at the Tarheel Tobacco Outlet in Clemmons, N.C., Tuesday May 22, 2012.

If you're in CA, you might have seen some "no on prop 29" ads. And if you pay a little attention, you'd notice a "major funding by Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company" message .

The Reynolds American group of companies, employees and their private charitable foundations donated roughly $10 million to nonprofits in 2011.

Not too long ago, back in 1999, its 87-cent cigarette tax was the thirdhighest in the nation, according to a story this week by The Sacramento Bee.

Reynolds American Inc. said today its group of companies, employees and private charitable foundations donated about $10 million in value to nonprofit organizations last year.

The architectural elegance and pre-Depression prosperity that the former R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

Sacramento Bee // Two more tobacco giants have given money to stop Proposition 29 .

This is the group of companies who raised their dividend during the week: Rocky Mountain Chocolate Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory manufactures an extensive line of premium chocolate candies and other confectionery products from its own proprietary recipes for sale at its franchised and company-owned stores.

The new office replaces the Winston-Salem-based credit union's nearby Fifth Street location, which was closed in April.

With interest rates as low as they are investors are looking at dividend paying stocks for investment income, where returns currently far exceed those of bonds.

Members of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and their supporters rallied outside the Reynolds American headquarters building in Winston-Salem during a shareholders meeting on Thursday.

Farm labor activists say they'll again descend on the annual meeting of cigarette giant Reynolds American Inc.

Similar to the R.J. Reynolds Building, the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis was an office building completed in 1929, constructed in the art deco style.

A detail from a mural on the ground- floor lobby of the R.J. Reynolds Building depicts a nattily dressed couple of the 1920s.

About 17 percent of U.S. children aged two to 19 years old are obese, and since 1980, the obesity rate among children of those ages has almost tripled.