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Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) today announced the distribution ratio for its
previously announced spin-off of Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT). Altria
shareholders will receive 0.692024 of a share of Kraft for each share of Altria
common stock held as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on March 16, 2007 (the "record
date").

On March 30, 2007, Altria will distribute all of the shares of Kraft that it
owns, representing approximately 88.9% of Kraft's outstanding shares as of the
record date. Altria shareholders will receive cash in lieu of fractional shares
for amounts of less than one Kraft share.

Altria is mailing an Information Statement today to shareholders as of the
record date, with details about the Kraft spin-off. The Information Statement
and answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) are available on Altria's
investor website at www.altria.com/Kraftspinoff.

For additional information, registered shareholders in the U.S. and Canada
should contact Altria's transfer agent, Computershare Trust Company, by email at
altria@computershare.com, or by phone at 1-866-538-5172. Registered shareholders
outside the U.S. and Canada should call 1-781-575-3572.

Holders of Altria common stock who hold their shares through a broker, bank or
other nominee should contact their broker or bank directly or call Altria's
information agent, D.F. King & Co., at 1-800-290-6431.

Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements

This press release contains projections of future results and other
forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties and
are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor Provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The following important factors could cause
actual results and outcomes to differ materially from those contained in such
forward-looking statements.

Altria Group, Inc.'s consumer products subsidiaries are subject to changing
prices for raw materials; intense price competition; changes in consumer
preferences and demand for their products; fluctuations in levels of customer
inventories; the effects of foreign economies and local economic and market
conditions; unfavorable currency movements and changes to income tax laws. Their
results are dependent upon their continued ability to promote brand equity
successfully; to anticipate and respond to new consumer trends; to develop new
products and markets and to broaden brand portfolios in order to compete
effectively with lower-priced products; to improve productivity; and to respond
effectively to changing prices for raw materials.

Altria Group, Inc.'s tobacco subsidiaries (Philip Morris USA and Philip Morris
International) continue to be subject to litigation, including risks associated
with adverse jury and judicial determinations, and courts reaching conclusions
at variance with the company's understanding of applicable law and bonding
requirements in the limited number of jurisdictions that do not limit the dollar
amount of appeal bonds; legislation, including actual and potential excise tax
increases; discriminatory excise tax structures; increasing marketing and
regulatory restrictions; the effects of price increases related to excise tax
increases and concluded tobacco litigation settlements on consumption rates and
consumer preferences within price segments; health concerns relating to the use
of tobacco products and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke; governmental
regulation; privately imposed smoking restrictions; and governmental and grand
jury investigations.

Altria Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries are subject to other risks detailed from
time to time in its publicly filed documents, including its Annual Report on
Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2006. Altria Group, Inc. cautions
that the foregoing list of important factors is not complete and does not
undertake to update any forward-looking statements that it may make.


Altria Media Relations
917-663-2144

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