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Tobacco money helped build Winston-Salem, but the golden leaf's stature in the Twin City is steadily withering. Starting in January, city workers must take a test to prove they are tobacco-free or pay an undetermined increase in their health-insurance premiums. Officials say that will cut the city's health-care expenses, but they aren't sure how much. In an unrelated move, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco will end cigarette production in the city by the middle of next year. It plans to shift 540 production workers and 40 salaried ones from a 49-year-old...