Altria Now Yields Almost 10%

They sell a product that costs pennies to addicts for dollars......

Altria Group, Inc. (Altria) (NYSE: MO) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.32 per common share, payable on January 9, 2009, to stockholders of record as of December 24, 2008. The ex-dividend date is December 22, 2008.

The current yield is now 9.7%. Altria earlier in the year spun Phillip Morris International of the shareholders (NYSE:PM)