[Licensed-to-Kill] L2K Invites Altria CEO to Become an L2K Director!

[Licensed to Kill, Inc]

LICENSED TO KILL INVITES ALTRIA CEO TO BECOME AN L2K DIRECTOR!

On April 29, 2004, Licensed to Kill=92s Senior VP of Corporate
Communications attended Altria=92s Annual Meeting of Stockholders in East
Hanover, NJ.  The format of the meeting was almost identical to that of
the Licensed to Kill Annual Meeting of Stockholders held the day before
(also in East Hanover, NJ).

Core Prutspin was the last person allowed to speak during the =93Question
& Answer=94 period. While speaking, she held up the logo of our deadly
company. Here is a transcription of her comments:

Good morning Mr. Camilleri (Louis). I greet you today as a fellow
tobacco executive. My name is Core Prutspin and I am the Secretary and a
Director of Licensed to Kill, Inc.  As you know, Licensed to Kill is a
real company, incorporated in the state of Virginia last year.  The
purpose of the company, as explicitly stated in our articles of
incorporation is: to manufacture and market tobacco products in a way
that each year kills over 400,000 Americans and 4.5 million other people
worldwide. Our company slogan is =93We=92re Rich, You=92re Dead!=94

Yesterday, our company also held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders in
East Hanover, NJ.  Our company would like to expand its board of
directors and is looking for people with experience in making a killing
around the world.  Who better than the directors of Altria? Yesterday,
our stockholders voted to elect Altria=92s directors to our board, pending
a favorable response from them.  So my question to you is, as chairman
of the board of directors of Altria, will you accept our invitation to
join the board of our company Licensed to Kill?

CAMILLERI=92S RESPONSE: You were here last year and said the same thing.
Your comments are in "poor taste."

[Truth: Prutspin was at the Altria meeting last year, but it was
Virginia Slime who represented L2K and posed a question of Camilleri,
different from the one posed this year. Read more at:
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/licensed-to-kill/2003q2/000005.html.]

Eight of Altria=92s Directors were present at the Meeting and heard the
L2K executive=92s comments, but none came up afterwards to formally accept
the invitation to join Licensed to Kill=92s Board of Directors.

We are puzzled at their hesitancy to accept our invitation. After all,
what we would like them to do for our company is nothing different than
they are already doing for Altria. Then again, their company has always
been adverse to telling the full truth about their deadly business.
Perhaps our company=92s brutal honesty has given the Altria Directors
second thoughts about becoming "partners in crime"?