ALA Altria Group

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Altria Group Inc
22 March 2007



Altria Group, Inc.
120 Park Avenue
New York, NY  10017

NEWS RELEASE                        

                                                                                        
Contact:  Altria Media Relations
(917) 663-2144


                ALTRIA GROUP, INC. ANNOUNCES DISTRIBUTION RATIO
                        FOR SPIN-OFF OF KRAFT FOODS INC.

NEW YORK, March 20, 2007 -- 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.

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