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STOCKHOLDER RESOLUTION - PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INCORPORATED Corporate By-Law Change to Be Free of Cigarettes by 2000 WHEREAS - In the U.S.A. cigarette smoking kills more people than heroin, cocaine, alcohol, AIDS, fires, homicide, sui- cide, and automoblle accidents combined; - Cigarette-smoking Is an air pollutant more than twice as cancer-causing as many toxic chemicals widely banned; - Children of smokers are moc~e prone than non-smckers' children to suffer bronchitis, pneumonia, and other respir- atory problems; -- - In the U.S.A. alone, health care costs attributed to smoking-caused disease has been estimated at $22 billion, with loss of work-years and productivity estimated at $43 billion: - While the tobacco industry has proclaimed concern for the economic fate of small tobacco farmers, their economic Interests have been consistently subverted when cheaper imported tobacco could be purchased; - An Increasing amount of Third World income pays for ci*garettes. 12% of family Income (family of four) goes for cigarettes in the Philippines, where Marlboro is the second most popular brand; - The expropriation of tobacco profits by our Company and others in the global tobacco Industry contributes to the deficit balance of payments of most developing nations; - 63% of the world's tobacco Is grown In developing coun- trIes. WHO has estimated 5% of all trees felled there Is used in tobacco curing, thus contributing to global warming; - The suffering and death-tolI rising from tobacco use is expected to reach 4,000,000 people by 2000. - The U.S. Surgeon General has proposed that the U.S.A. become smoke-free by 2000; - The Director General of WHO called for C1987] a 21st r.~ ~ century "free of tobacco-related diseases;" ~ • - Our Company has begun diversifying from concentration on F-~ CIO ~ ~ a~

1 tobacco products into financial services and real estate, beverages and food (including its recent purchase of General Foods C$5.7 billion] and Kraft [s12.7 billion]; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that [the official description of the purpose of the Company] be amended to add: "except for the production, marketing, and sale of cigarettes anywhere in the world by the year 2000." BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board take the necessary steps between now and then to Impiement this change. Supporting Statement • The consistent data that cigarette-smoking causes serious health hazards hasn't been refuted by our Company and the tobacco industry despite many efforts. • There is nothing unprecedentea about regulating marketing of hazardous products. Cigarettes, if used as Intended, cause addiction, illness, misery, and death. Cigarettes are unique in that there is no way to prevent addiction and eliminate smoking risks except to stop smoking. The American Cancer Society states:It would be criminal for society to fall to protect non-smokers and to prevent the recruiting of a new generation of smokers." If you agree with this statement and want to make the world healthier for the next geieration please vote In favor of this resolution and make Philip Morris smoke-free by the year 2000 . r.~ © . ~ ~ - © ~ r-~ c~