Not unmixed good news.

The Oregonian reports an OTP&E* program statistic this morning. Cigarette sales had fallen to their lowest levels by June 2008 (the date of the report.) The Doser ventures to suggest that they will have fallen even further in the last year since many users are observably using "depression" alternatives: rolling one's own, cadging cigarettes on the streets and cadging butts from the street. *Oregon Tobacco Prevention and Education.