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S'o a~,~ ll I7,/ 0 PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC. 120 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017 Mrs. Celia E. Rodee Vice President First Chicago Trust Company of New York 30 West Broadway New York, NY 10007-2192 • TELEPHONE (212) 880-5000 February 9, 1990 Re: Mailing of Philip Morris Annual Reports and Proxy Statements • Dear Celia: Following are instructions for mailing the Philip Morris Companies Inc. Annual Report and Proxy Statement to stockholders for the year ended December 31, 1989. The 1989 Annual Report and 1990 Proxy Statement are to be mailed in a bi-pack envelope on or about Thursday, March 15, 1990, to all holders of record as of March 15, 1990, of our $1 par value common stock and $10 par value common stock. Delivery is to be made by FIRST CLASS MAIL to domestic stockholders and by AIRMAIL to foreign stockholders. DELIVERY OF ANNUAL REPORTS AND PROXY STATEMENTS By Monday, March 12, 1990, you should receive from our printers, Lasky and R.R. Donnelley, respectively: Annual Report - 120,000 copies Proxy Statement - 90,000 copies DELIVERED TO: First Chicago Trust Company Trident Group ~ 315 Spring Street G~ New York, NY 10013 ~ Marked: "For Philip Morris Companies Inc. Account" ~ ~ ~ C~J ~

Mrs. Celia E. Rodee - 2 - February 9, 1990 • DELIVERY OF ENVELOPES Also, by March 12, 1990, you should receive the mailing envelopes marked as follows: 83,000 envelopes with first class rate indices (Permit No. 8 Corner: Philip Morris Companies Inc., P.O. Box 3984 Church Street Station New York, NY 10008-3984) 1,500 envelopes without indices (for foreign and new stockholders) 0 FIRST CLASS MAILING It is our understanding that you will enclose the Annual Reports and Proxy Statements in the envelopes, sort them by zone, and deliver them to the post office by the end of the day on or about Friday, March 16, 1990. AFFIDAVITS Please send Affidavits in duplicate from First Chicago Trust Company certifying to delivery of the material to the post office. If you have any questions, please call me at (212) 880-5059. I wtLc,I'~ Patricia A. Malzache Assistant Secretary 0001F.69 PAM:pjm cc: Messrs. Donald Fried James T. Breedlove Nicholas Rolli Harrison D. Maas (Hunton & Williams) Jerry E. Whitson (Hunton & Williams) Z\D Thomas A. Long (D.F. King & Co.) © Mrs. Alice M. Dean (First Chicago Trust) F,~--, 00 ~ F-~ C.~ C~