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ft • PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC. 120 PARK AVENUE. NEW YORK. N Y 10017 • TELEPHONE (212) 880-5000 March 5, 1990 Ms. Celia E. Rodee Vice President First Chicago Trust Company of New York 30 West Broadway New York, N.Y. 10007-2192 Re: PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC. PROXY MATERIAL - ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1990 • Time: 9:30 a.m. Place: Richmond, VA Dear Celia: The record date for the holders of $1.00 par value Common Stock entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders has been determined by the Board of Directors to be as of the close of business on Thursday, March 15, 1990. For your information, the final proof of our proxy card and Notice of Meeting and Proxy Statement were forwarded to you under separate cover today. R. R. Donnelley, our printer, will send to First Chicago on or about March 14, 1990, 130,000 copies of the Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement, proxy card and return envelopes. You are hereby instructed to mail as soon as possible after receipt of United Virginia transfer sheets, to all holders of Common Stock ($1.00 par value), the combined Notice of Meeting and Proxy Statement, management proxy card, and the 1989 Annual Report by first-class mail in a bi-pack envelope to ND domestic stockholders and by air mail to foreign stockholders. C ~ 00 - - 1 - 00 - I-i ~ O~

! First Chicago Trust Company of New York March 6, 1990 The number of shares and account number are to be imprinted on each proxy card. Also, the number of shares owned by participants in Philip Morris' defined benefit plans will be imprinted on each of their proxy cards. You are further instructed to prepare a certified list of the holders of common stock, $1.00 par value, for voting purposes, as of the close of business on March 15, 1990. In addition, please prepare a list in duplicate of all common stock shareholders, showing number of shares owned and address of record, for use as an attendance list at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Please include account numbers. The list is generally compiled in six (6) ledgers broken down as follows: COMMON STOCK A-C, D-H, I-M, N-SL, SM-Z and, ) in one book, ) SIX (6) FOREIGN, AND BROKERS AND NOMINEES ) BOOKS The firm of D. F. King & Co., Inc. has been retained for the solicitation of proxies for the Philip Morris Annual Meeting of Stockholders, and you may consider this letter as your authorization to provide their personnel with whatever data or service they may require from you and others at First Chicago Trust Company with respect to the proxy solicitation. Further, we advise that you are hereby appointed Agent to tabulate the number of shares voted by proxy at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, and we request that you and Filippo P. Freccia act as Inspectors of Election at the Meeting. Would you please prepare for us in duplicate a listing of unvoted holdings of 100,000 shares or more of banks, nominees, brokers, funds and similar accounts as of Friday, April 13, 1990. 2 ~ ~ ~ 00 ~ 00 • ~ ~

First Chicago Trust Company of New York March 5, 1990 POST-MEETING REPORT As soon as possible after the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, would you please supply us with an analysis of the vote, showing percentages as well as actual votes. Thank you. Sincerely, Patricia A. Malz c er Assistant Secretary 0001F PAM/ ih cc: Donald Fried, Esq. James Peter Alice Thomas Jerry T. K. M. A. E. Breedlove, Esq. Gogolak (R. R. Donnelley) Dean (First Chicago Trust) Long (D. F. King & Co.) Whitson (Hunton & Williams)