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2Q profit falls 13 percent earned $1.85 billion, or $1.17 per share, for the period ended June 30. A year earlier it earned $2.12 billion, or $1.30 per share. Removing certain items, earnings were $1.41 per share. Analyst surveyed by FactSet expected $1.24 per share. Revenue excluding excise taxes was $7.8 billion, down 1.5 percent from $7.92 billion a year earlier. Wall Street predicted $7.52 billion. Shares of Philip Morris International rose 78 cents to $85.48 in morning trading. Its shares have fallen almost 3 percent so far this year. Because it does all its business overseas, the company has to navigate changes in currency values. A stronger dollar cuts into revenue generated overseas when it translated back into dollars. Cigarette shipment volume fell 2.7 percent to 222.8 billion cigarettes. Total shipments of Marlboro cigarettes edged up 1 percent, mostly due to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Philip Morris International maintained its full year forecast for earnings in a range of $4.87 to $4.97 per share. Analysts foresee earnings of $5.15 per share. Philip Morris International Inc. is based in New York and Switzerland. Richmond, Virginia based Altria Group Inc., the owner of Philip Morris USA, spun off Philip Morris International as a separate company in 2008.