Document:

Benefit Equalization Plan

 Exhibit 10.25 
 BENEFIT EQUALIZATION PLAN 
 Effective September 2, 1974

 (As amended and in effect as of January 1, 2010) 

 BENEFIT EQUALIZATION PLAN 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

							
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	 ARTICLE I
	  	DEFINITIONS	  	 	3	  
			
	 ARTICLE II
	  	BENEFIT EQUALIZATION RETIREMENT ALLOWANCES, BENEFIT EQUALIZATION PROFIT-SHARING ALLOWANCES AND BENEFIT EQUALIZATION COMBINED ALLOWANCES	  	 	18	  
			
	 ARTICLE III
	  	FUNDS FROM WHICH ALLOWANCES ARE PAYABLE	  	 	31	  
			
	 ARTICLE IV
	  	THE ADMINISTRATOR	  	 	32	  
			
	 ARTICLE V
	  	AMENDMENT AND DISCONTINUANCE OF THE PLAN	  	 	33	  
			
	 ARTICLE VI
	  	FORMS; COMMUNICATIONS	  	 	34	  
			
	 ARTICLE VII
	  	INTERPRETATION OF PROVISIONS	  	 	35	  
			
	 ARTICLE VIII
	  	CHANGE IN CONTROL PROVISIONS	  	 	36	  
			
	 EXHIBIT A:
	  	ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS USED TO CALCULATE A SINGLE SUM PAYMENT	  	 	39	  
			
	 APPENDIX 1:
	  	TP EMPLOYEES	  	 	41	  
			
	 APPENDIX 2:
	  	BENEFIT FOR MICHAEL SZYMANCZYK	  	 	42	  
			
	 APPENDIX 3:
	  	TAX ASSUMPTIONS	  	 	43	  
			
	 APPENDIX 4:
	  	CALCULATION OF BENEFIT EXECUTIVE TRUST ARRANGEMENT PARTICIPANT	  	 	44	  
			
	 APPENDIX 5:
	  	BENEFITS TO UST SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT PLAN PARTICIPANTS	  	 	46	  

 BENEFIT EQUALIZATION PLAN 

INTRODUCTION 
 The Benefit Equalization Plan governs the rights of an Employee whose benefit under the Retirement Plan or the Profit-Sharing Plan, or both Qualified Plans, is subject to one or more of the Statutory
Limitations, or to the nondiscrimination requirements of Section 401(a)(4) of the Code and the coverage requirements of Section 410(b) of the Code. 
 The Plan has been amended as of January 1, 2010, to include the participation of salaried employees of UST LLC and its affiliates who were participants in the UST LLC Retirement Income Plan for
Salaried Employees (the substantive terms of which are now in Part V of the Retirement Plan as a result of the merger of the assets and liabilities of that plan with and into the assets and liabilities of the Retirement Plan after the close of
business on December 31, 2009). In addition, the liabilities of the UST Inc. Benefit Restoration Plan, UST Inc. Excess Retirement Benefit Plan and UST Inc. Officers’ Supplemental Retirement Plan with respect to the limitations applicable
to plans qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code (e.g., Sections 401(a)(17) and 415 of the Code) have been merged into and assumed by the Plan. 
 The Plan as hereinafter set forth shall be effective with respect to Employees who incur a Separation from Service on or after January 1, 2010, except as otherwise provided herein. The rights of a
person whose Separation from Service or date of becoming an Inactive Participant is before January 1, 2010, shall be governed by the provisions of the plan (or the plan, the liabilities of which have been assumed by this Plan, in which such
former employee participated on the date of his termination of employment) as in effect on his Separation from Service or date of becoming an Inactive Participant, as the case may be, except to the extent that the Administrator has determined in his
sole discretion to administer the Plan in good faith compliance with Section 409A of the Code and any then published guidance so as to not subject any Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance and Grandfathered Benefit
Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance to Section 409A of the Code. 
 The Plan is comprised of four separate plans,
programs or arrangements. Each plan shall be treated as a separate plan, program or arrangement from the other plans. One of the plans provides benefits to a Retired Employee (or his Spouse or other Beneficiary) solely in excess of the
Section 415 Limitations; the second plan provides benefits to a Retired Employee (or his Spouse or other Beneficiary) attributable solely to the Compensation Limitation; the third plan provides benefits to a Retired Employee (or his Spouse or
other Beneficiary) because payment of the benefit from one or both of the Qualified Plans could result in a failure to meet the nondiscrimination requirements of Section 401(a)(4) of the Code or the coverage requirements of Section 410(b)
of the Code; and the fourth plan provides benefits to a TP Employee who resumed active participation in the Plan, effective January 1, 2008. 
 Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the provisions of this Plan, (1) no amounts shall be deemed credited or accrued under the Plan after December 31, 2004, to the extent the
Administrator determines that the accrual, crediting or payment of such amounts under the terms of the Plan or related arrangements would risk subjecting Plan participants to taxation or penalties under Section 409A of the Code, and
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determined by the Administrator to be deferred compensation subject to the requirements of such Section 409A may be modified by the Administrator to the extent it deems necessary or
appropriate to ensure compliance with such requirements. The Administrator may take any such action with respect to some participants but not others as it in its sole discretion deems appropriate under the circumstances. 

  
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 ARTICLE I 
 DEFINITIONS 
 The following terms as used herein and in the Preamble shall
have the meanings set forth below. Any capitalized term used herein or in the Preamble and not defined below shall have the meaning set forth in the Retirement Plan or the Profit-Sharing Plan, as the context may require. 

(a) “Actuarial Equivalent” shall mean a benefit which is at least equivalent in value to the benefit otherwise payable
pursuant to the terms of the Plan, based on the actuarial principles and assumptions set forth in Exhibit I to the Retirement Plan. 
 (b) “After-Tax BEP Combined Allowance” shall mean the amount by which (i) the TP Employee’s Gross After-Tax BEP Combined Allowance exceeds (ii) his Trust Account TP Value.

 (c) “Allowance” or “Allowances” shall mean a Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance,
determined under ARTICLE IIA of the Plan, a Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance, determined under ARTICLE IIB of the Plan and a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance determined under ARTICLE IIC of the Plan. 

(d) “Assumed Trust Account TP” shall mean the assumed trust account established pursuant to a TP Employee’s
Supplemental Enrollment Agreement. 
 (e) “Beneficiary” shall mean: 

(i) In the case of a Retired Employee who is to receive all or a portion of his Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance or Benefit
Equalization Combined Allowance after his Separation from Service in a Single Sum Payment pursuant to ARTICLE IIE(1)(a), IIE(1)(b) or IIE(1)(c)(ii) of the Plan, but who dies after his Separation from Service and before such Single Sum Payment is
made, the Beneficiary of such Single Sum Payment shall be the Spouse to whom he was married on the date of death; provided, however, that if the Retired Employee is not married on the date of his death, the Beneficiary of such Single Sum Payment
shall be the Retired Employee’s estate. 
 (ii) In the case of a Grandfathered Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant
who has elected pursuant to ARTICLE IIE(3) of the Plan to receive, after his Separation from Service, that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance equal to the Grandfathered Benefit
Equalization Retirement Allowance in the form of an Optional Payment described in ARTICLE I(dd)(i)(2) or (3) of the Plan, the person or persons designated by the Grandfathered Employee to receive (or who, pursuant to the terms of such
Optional Payment, will receive) after his death a benefit according to the option elected by the Grandfathered Employee. 

(iii) In the case of an Employee or Retired Employee who has been credited with a Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance and who
dies prior to the payment of such Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance (or prior to the payment of the then remaining balance of such Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance in the case of a Grandfathered

  
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Employee who has elected pursuant to ARTICLE IIF(3) of the Plan to receive that portion of his Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance equal to the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization
Profit-Sharing Allowance in the form of an Optional Payment described in ARTICLE I(dd)(ii) of the Plan), the Beneficiary of such Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance (or remaining balance thereof) shall be the beneficiary or beneficiaries
of such former Employee who is or are to receive the balance in such former Employee’s account under the Profit-Sharing Plan. 
 (f) “Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance” shall mean the benefit determined under ARTICLE IIC of the Plan and payable at the times and in the form set forth in ARTICLE IIE of the
Plan. 
 (g) “Benefit Equalization Joint and Survivor Allowance” shall mean the total amount that would be
payable during a twelve (12) month period as a reduced Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance to a Retired Employee for life and after his death the amount payable to his Spouse for life equal to one-half of the reduced Benefit Equalization
Retirement Allowance payable to the Retired Employee (regardless of whether such form of benefit was available to such Retired Employee and his Spouse), or in such other amount as described in ARTICLE IIC(2) of the Plan, which together shall be the
Actuarial Equivalent of the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance of the Retired Employee. 
 (h) “Benefit
Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance” or “Profit-Sharing Allowance” shall mean 
 (i) with respect to
Allowances other than a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance, the benefit determined under ARTICLE IIB of the Plan and payable at the times and in the forms set forth in ARTICLE IIF of the Plan; and 

(ii) with respect to a Profit-Sharing Allowance that is a portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance, the benefit determined
under ARTICLE IIC of the Plan and payable at the times and in the forms set forth in ARTICLE IIF of the Plan. 
 The Benefit
Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance shall be comprised of the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance, if any, and the remaining portion of such Allowance. The Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance shall not include a
UST Employee’s UST Plan Benefit. 
 (i) “Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance” shall mean the benefit
determined under ARTICLE IIA of the Plan and payable at the times and in the forms set forth in ARTICLE IIE of the Plan. The Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance shall be comprised of the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement
Allowance, if any, and the remaining portion of such Allowance. The Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance shall not include a UST Employee’s UST Plan Benefit. 
 (j) “Benefit Equalization Survivor Allowance” shall mean the benefit payable to: 
 (i) the Spouse of a Deceased Employee; and 

  
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 (ii) the Spouse of a deceased Retired Employee; 

in an amount equal to one-half of the reduced Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance which would have been payable in the form of a Benefit
Equalization Joint and Survivor Allowance to the Deceased Employee or deceased Retired Employee (regardless of whether such form of benefit was available to such Deceased Employee or deceased Retired Employee), or in such other amount as described
in ARTICLE IIC(2) of the Plan. 
 (k) “BEP Benefit Commencement Date” shall mean the date on which the benefit
to which the recipient is entitled is paid or commences to be paid pursuant to the application filed in accordance with ARTICLE IIG of the Plan, or if no such application is filed, in accordance with the terms of the Plan as determined in the
sole discretion of the Administrator. All such Allowances not paid in a Single Sum Payment are paid in arrears so that the actual date of payment shall be the first day of the calendar month next succeeding the BEP Benefit Commencement Date.

 (1) (i) Except as provided in clauses (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) of this ARTICLE I(k)(1) of the Plan, the BEP Benefit
Commencement Date of the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance and Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance shall be the Payment Date, but not later than the Latest Payment Date. 

(ii) (A) Except as provided in clauses (B) and (C) of this ARTICLE I(k)(1)(ii) of the Plan, the BEP Benefit
Commencement Date of that portion of a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance payable in the form of an Optional Payment pursuant to an election under ARTICLE IIE(3) of the
Plan to a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant shall be the Benefit Commencement Date of the Grandfathered Retired Employee’s Full, Deferred or Early Retirement Allowance under the Retirement Plan. 

(B) The BEP Benefit Commencement Date of that portion of a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the
Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance payable in the form of an Optional Payment with respect to a Grandfathered Retired Employee who voluntarily retires within the one (1) year period following the date of the filing of his
application for an Optional Payment with the Administrator pursuant to ARTICLE IIE(3) of the Plan, or whose employment is terminated for misconduct (as determined by the Management Committee) within such one (1) year period, shall be the
first day of the month following the expiration of the one (1) year period following the date of the filing of his application for an Optional Payment. 
 (C) The BEP Benefit Commencement Date of the benefit payable pursuant to ARTICLE IIE(3)(f) of the Plan to the Beneficiary of a Grandfathered Retired Employee who died after his Date of Retirement and
prior to his BEP Benefit Commencement Date shall be the first day of the month following the death of the deceased Grandfathered Retired Employee. 

  
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 (iii) The BEP Benefit Commencement Date of (A) that portion of a
Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance payable to a Retired TP Employee and (B) that portion of a Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit
Equalization Retirement Allowance payable to a Grandfathered Retired Employee, who in each case is only eligible for a Vested Retirement Allowance at his Separation from Service, shall be the Benefit Commencement Date of the Retired Employee’s
Vested Retirement Allowance under the Retirement Plan. 
 (iv) The BEP Benefit Commencement
Date of any Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance described in ARTICLE IIA(1)(e) of the Plan and of any Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance described in ARTICLE IIC(1)(e) of the Plan shall be the benefit commencement date of such
Allowance as set forth in the General Release Agreement; provided, however, that if no time of payment is specified, the BEP Benefit Commencement Date shall be the Payment Date, but no later than the 15th day of the third month following the end of the Employee’s
Participating Company first taxable year in which the right is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture; provided, however, that no such Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance or Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance shall change
either the time or form of payment of the Allowance (including a Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance) otherwise payable pursuant to the terms of the Plan. 

(v) The BEP Benefit Commencement Date of that portion of a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the
Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is payable in the form of an Optional Payment pursuant to an election under ARTICLE IIF(3) of the Plan to a TP Employee shall be the date specified in the application. 

(2) (i) (A) Except as provided in clause (B) of this ARTICLE I(k)(2)(i) of the Plan, the BEP Benefit Commencement Date of the Benefit
Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance (other than the Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance of a TP Employee which shall be paid as part of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance pursuant to Article I(k)(1) of the Plan) shall be the
Payment Date, but not later than the Latest Payment Date. 
 (B) The BEP Benefit Commencement Date of that
portion of a Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is payable in the form of an Optional Payment pursuant to an election under ARTICLE IIF(3) of the Plan to a
Grandfathered Retired Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant shall be the date specified in the application. 
 (3) (i) (A)
Except as provided in clause (B) of this ARTICLE I(k)(3)(i), the BEP Benefit Commencement Date of the Benefit Equalization Survivor Allowance payable to the Spouse of a Deceased Employee or deceased Retired Employee shall be the Survivor
Allowance Payment Date, but not later than the Survivor Allowance Latest Payment Date. 

  
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 (B) The BEP Benefit Commencement Date of that portion of the Benefit
Equalization Survivor Allowance that is derived from (i) the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or (ii) the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance
that is payable to: 
 (1) the Spouse of a Grandfathered Deceased Employee; or 

(2) the Spouse of a deceased Grandfathered Retired Employee, 

shall, in each case, be the Benefit Commencement Date of the Survivor Allowance payable to such Spouse under the Retirement Plan, provided
that the Spouse may elect in accordance with the provisions of Paragraphs G2.05(c) and (d)(2) of Part I of the Retirement Plan, as applicable to the Spouse, that the BEP Benefit Commencement Date be the first day of any month thereafter, but not
later than the later of (i) the first day of the second calendar month following the month in which the Grandfathered Deceased Employee or deceased Grandfathered Retired Employee died (or if his date of birth was on the first day of a calendar
month, the first day of the calendar month next following the calendar month in which the Grandfathered Deceased Employee or deceased Grandfathered Retired Employee died), or (ii) the date that would have been the Grandfathered Deceased
Employee’s or deceased Grandfathered Retired Employee’s Unreduced Early Retirement Benefit Commencement Date. 
 (l)
“Change in Circumstance” shall mean, with respect to a Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant: 
 (i) the marriage of the Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired Employee; 

(ii) the divorce of the Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired Employee from his spouse (determined in accordance with applicable
state law), provided: 
  

	 	(1)	such spouse was the Beneficiary who is to receive an Optional Payment, or 

  

	 	(2)	the Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired Employee elected pursuant to ARTICLE IIE(3) of the Plan to receive an Optional Payment pursuant to
ARTICLE I(dd)(i) of the Plan; 

 (iii) the death of the Beneficiary designated by the Grandfathered Employee
or Grandfathered Retired Employee to receive an Optional Payment after the death of the Grandfathered Retired Employee; or 

(iv) a medical condition of the Beneficiary, based on medical evidence satisfactory to the Administrator, which is expected to result in
the death of the Beneficiary within five (5) years of the filing of an application for change in 

  
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Optional Payment method pursuant to ARTICLE IIE(3) or ARTICLE IIF(3) hereof. 
 (m) “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time. 
 (n) “Company” shall mean Altria Client Services Inc. Altria Client Services Inc. is the sponsor of the Plan. 
 (o) “Compensation” shall have the same meaning as in the applicable Part of the Retirement Plan, except that in computing the Retirement Allowance and Benefit Equalization Retirement
Allowance of an Employee in salary bands A and B who was not age fifty-five (55) or older at December 31, 2006, Compensation for Plan years on and after January 1, 2007, shall mean the lesser of his (i) base salary, plus annual
incentive award, and (ii) base salary, plus annual incentive award at a business rating of 100 and individual performance rating of “Exceeds”. 
 (p) “Compensation Limitation” shall mean the limitation of Section 401(a)(17) of the Code on the annual compensation of an Employee which may be taken into account under the
Qualified Plans. 
 (q) “Earned and Vested” shall mean, when referring to an Allowance or any portion of an
Allowance, an amount that, as of January 1, 2005, is not subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture (as defined in Treasury Regulation Section 1.83-3(c)) or a requirement to perform future services. 

(r) “Employee” shall mean any person employed by a Participating Company who has accrued a benefit under the Retirement
Plan or the Profit-Sharing Plan, but whose entire accrued benefit, if computed without regard to the Statutory Limitations, cannot be paid under the Retirement Plan or the Profit-Sharing Plan, or either of such Qualified Plans, as a result of the
Statutory Limitations, provided that an Employee shall not include a TP Employee, but only with respect to those calendar years in which he was a participant in such arrangement. An Employee shall include a UST Employee but only with respect to any
benefit earned under the Profit-Sharing Plan on or after January 1, 2010, and disregarding any part of the UST Employee’s UST Plan Benefit earned on and after such date. 

(s) “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time. 

(t) “Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Joint and Survivor Allowance” shall mean the total amount that would be payable
during a twelve (12) month period as a reduced Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance to a Grandfathered Retired Employee for life and after his death the amount payable to his Spouse for life equal to one-half of the reduced
Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance payable to the Grandfathered Retired Employee, which together shall be the Actuarial Equivalent of (i) that portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the Grandfathered
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is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance of the Retired Grandfathered Employee. 
 (u) “Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Optional Payment Allowance” shall mean, with respect a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant, (i) with respect to
that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, or (ii) with respect to that portion of his Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that is the Grandfathered
Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, the total amount payable during a twelve (12) month period in accordance with one of the payment methods described in Paragraph G2.04(d) of Part I of the Retirement Plan and designated by the
Grandfathered Retired Employee in his application for an Optional Payment under ARTICLE IIE(3) of the Plan, pursuant to which the Grandfathered Retired Employee receives for life after his Date of Retirement a reduced Grandfathered Benefit
Equalization Retirement Allowance in equal monthly payments for life and after his death after his Date of Retirement his Beneficiary receives for life a benefit in equal monthly payments according to the option elected by the Grandfathered Retired
Employee, which together shall be the Actuarial Equivalent of the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance payable in equal monthly payments for the life of the Grandfathered Retired Employee after his Date of Retirement. 

(v) “Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance” shall mean (i) that portion of a Grandfathered
Retired Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance, or (ii) that portion of a Grandfathered Retired Employee’s Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the
Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance, in each case as of December 31, 2004, the right to which is Earned and Vested as of December 31, 2004, plus any future contributions to the account, the right to which was Earned and Vested as
of December 31, 2004, but only to the extent such contributions are actually made, plus earnings (whether actual or notional) attributable to such Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance as of December 31, 2004, or to
such income. 
 (w) “Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance” shall mean the present value of
(i) that portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, or (ii) that portion of the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, in each case earned to December 31, 2004, to
which the Grandfathered Employee or Retired Grandfathered Employee would have been entitled under the Plan if he had voluntarily terminated services without cause on or before December 31, 2004, and received payment of such benefit on the
earliest permissible date following termination of employment in the form with the greatest value, expressed for purposes of this calculation as a single life annuity commencing at age 65; provided, however, that for any subsequent year such
Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance may increase to equal the present value of such portion of his benefit the Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired Employee actually becomes entitled to, in the form and at the time
actually paid, determined in accordance with the terms of the Plan (including applicable Statutory Limitations) as in effect on October 3, 2004, without regard to any further services rendered by the Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered
Retired Employee after December 31, 2004, or any other events affecting the 

  
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amount of or the entitlement to benefits (other than an election with respect to the time and form of an available benefit). 

In computing that portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that is the
Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance of a Grandfathered Employee who is eligible for an Early Retirement Allowance, whether reduced or unreduced (but is not eligible for a Full or Deferred Retirement Allowance) under the
Retirement Plan as of the Grandfathered Employee’s Separation from Service, or, in the discretion of the Administrator, the end of the Grandfathered Employee’s policy severance, such Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance
shall be the Actuarial Equivalent of that portion of the Grandfathered Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, computed
as though such benefit were payable under the terms of the Retirement Plan in the form of a Retirement Allowance commencing on the first day of the month coincident with or next following the Grandfathered Employee’s Separation from Service or,
in the discretion of the Administrator, the end of the Grandfathered Employee’s policy severance; provided, however, that solely for purposes of determining the early retirement factor to be applied in determining the Actuarial Equivalent of
such benefit, the earliest date on which the Grandfathered Employee shall be treated as being entitled to an unreduced benefit under the Retirement Plan for purposes of Exhibit 1 to the Retirement Plan shall be the earliest date on which the
Grandfathered Employee would have been entitled to an unreduced benefit if the Grandfathered Employee had voluntarily terminated employment on December 31, 2004. 
 (x) “Grandfathered Deceased Employee” shall mean a Grandfathered Employee who died while he was an Employee at a time when he had a nonforfeitable right to any portion of his Benefit
Equalization Retirement Allowance. 
 (y) “Grandfathered Employee” shall mean: 

(i) an Employee who is entitled to that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Retirement
Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that was Earned and Vested; or 
 (ii) an Employee
who is entitled to that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance, 

and who, in either instance, is a participant in the executive trust or is a Secular Trust Participant. 

(z) “Grandfathered Retired Employee” shall mean: 

(i) a Grandfathered Employee who has retired and is eligible for that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit
Equalization Retirement Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that was Earned and Vested; and 

  
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 (ii) a Grandfathered Employee who has retired and is eligible for that portion of his
Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance. 
 (aa) “Gross After-Tax BEP Combined Allowance” shall be equal to the amount that would remain if income taxes (determined as if withholding for federal, state and local income taxes were
effected at the rates specified in Appendix 3), but disregarding any withholding for the TP Employee’s share of employment taxes, were withheld on the sum of (i) that portion of the TP Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined
Allowance that is the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance and that is not the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance and (ii) that portion of the TP Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the
Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance and that is not the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance. 

(bb) “Latest Payment Date” shall mean the later of: 

(i) December 31st of the year in which the Payment Date occurs, and 

(ii) the fifteenth day of the third month following the Payment Date. 

(cc) “Letter Agreement” shall mean a binding agreement between the UST Employee and UST LLC with respect to the
cessation of benefits on December 31, 2008, under the UST Supplemental Retirement Plan, the dollar amount of such benefit for each affected UST Employee is listed on Appendix 5. Such UST Employees are referred to as UST Supplemental Retirement
Plan Participants. 
 (dd) “Optional Payment” shall mean: 

(i) the following optional forms in which that portion of a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Retirement
Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance of a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant may be paid: 
  

	 	(1)	in equal monthly payments for the life of the Grandfathered Retired Employee; 

 

	 	(2)	a Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Joint and Survivor Allowance; or 

  

	 	(3)	a Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Optional Payment Allowance; and 

 (ii) in the case of that portion of a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance of a
Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired Employee, any of the methods of distribution permitted under ARTICLE VI of the Profit-Sharing Plan (other than a Single Sum Payment payable at the BEP Benefit Commencement Date described in ARTICLE
I(k)(2)(i)(A) of the Plan) and in the event the Grandfathered Employee or 

  
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Grandfathered Retired Employee dies before distribution of that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the Grandfathered
Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance is made, commences to be made or is fully distributed, to his Beneficiary in accordance with the method of distribution designated by such Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired Employee;
provided however, that payment to a Beneficiary who is not the Spouse of the Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired Employee shall be made no later than one (1) year following the death of the Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered
Retired Employee. 
 Any election to receive an Optional Payment with respect to any Allowance or Allowances under the Plan shall
be independent of any election with respect to benefits payable under the Retirement Plan, the Profit-Sharing Plan, or any other plan of a member of the Controlled Group. 
 (ee) “Payment Date” shall mean: 
 (i) with respect to payment of a
benefit under the Plan other than a UST Plan Benefit, the first day of the third calendar month following the month in which the Employee Separates from Service; provided, however, that: 

(1) in all cases of a Separation from Service other than on account of death, the Payment Date in the case of a Specified Employee shall
be the first day of the seventh calendar month following the date that such Specified Employee Separates from Service; and 

(ii) in all cases of a payment due under the Plan with respect to a UST Plan Benefit on behalf of a UST Employee that would have been
payable pursuant to Part V of the Retirement Plan but for the Statutory Limitations or for any other reason but that are payable pursuant to the provisions of the Plan, the Payment Date shall be as described in (1) or (2) depending on
whether or not the UST Employee is a UST Supplemental Retirement Plan Participant. 
 (1) For a UST Employee who is not a UST
Supplemental Retirement Plan Participant, Payment Date shall mean the first of the month following the latest of: 
 (A)
January 31, 2009, 
 (B) the UST Employee’s Separation from Service, or 

(C) the UST Employee’s attainment of age fifty-five (55); 

if the UST Employee dies after the Payment Date but before actual payment is made, the Payment Date shall be the day
following the date of death, but no later than December 31st of the year in which the UST Employee dies; and 

  
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 (2) For a UST Employee who is a UST Supplemental Retirement Plan Participant, Payment Date
shall mean the earlier of: 
 (A) the date of the Separation from Service if such separation occurs within two years of
January 6, 2009; or 
 (B) December 31, 2010; 

and if the UST Employee dies after the Payment Date but before actual payment is made, the Payment Date shall be the
day following the date of death, but no later than December 31st of the year in which the UST Employee dies; and provided, however, that nothing in this Plan shall be deemed to change the time or form of payment pursuant to the provisions of the UST Plans as in effect
immediately prior to December 31, 2009, and provided, further, that the Payment Date in the case of a Specified Employee shall be the later of (i) the applicable date specified in (2)(A) or (B) above, or (ii) the first day
of the seventh calendar month following the date that such Specified Employee Separates from Service. 
 The names of each UST
Supplemental Retirement Plan Participant and the lump sum value of the benefit accrued to December 31, 2008, and payable on the Payment Date specified in this clause (2), are set forth in Appendix 5. 

(ff) “Plan” shall mean the Benefit Equalization Plan described herein and in any amendments hereto. 

(gg) “Profit-Sharing Plan” shall mean the Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan for Salaried Employees, effective January 1,
1956, and as amended from time to time. 
 (hh) “Qualified Plans” shall mean the Retirement Plan and the
Profit-Sharing Plan. 
 (ii) “Retired Employee” shall mean a former Employee who is eligible for or in receipt
of, an Allowance. A Retired Employee shall cease to be such when he has received all of the Allowances payable to him under the Plan. 
 (jj) “Retired TP Employee” shall mean a former TP Employee who is eligible for or in receipt of, an Allowance pursuant to ARTICLE IIC of the Plan. A Retired TP Employee shall cease to be
such when he has received all of the Allowances payable to him under the Plan. 
 (kk) “Retirement Plan” shall
mean Parts I and II of the Altria Retirement Plan, effective as of September 1, 1978, and as amended from time to time. 

(ll) “Section 415 Limitations” shall mean: 

  
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 (i) in the case of the Retirement Plan, the limitations on benefits applicable to defined
benefit plans set forth in Section 415 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, and 
 (ii) in the
case of the Profit-Sharing Plan, the limitations on contributions applicable to defined contribution plans set forth in Section 415 of the Code and the Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder. 

(mm) “Secular Trust Participant” shall mean a Grandfathered Employee who signed an enrollment agreement to participate
in the Secular Trust. 
 (nn) “Separation from Service,” “Separates from Service” or
“Separated from Service” shall each have the same meaning as the term “separation from service” in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(h)(1); provided, however, that with respect to the payment of any Grandfathered
Allowance that is not subject to Section 409A of the Code, such terms shall mean the date that the Employee terminated his services as an Employee with his Participating Company and each other member of the Controlled Group. 

(oo) “Single Sum Payment” shall mean payment of a benefit or portion of a benefit in a single payment to a Retired
Employee, or to the Spouse or other Beneficiary of an Employee, Deceased Employee or deceased Retired Employee. A Single Sum Payment shall be (i) the Actuarial Equivalent of all or that portion of the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance
or Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance payable in equal monthly payments during a twelve (12) month period for the life of the Retired Employee, and (ii) the Actuarial Equivalent of the (or portion of the) Benefit Equalization Survivor
Allowance payable in equal monthly payments during a twelve (12) month period for the life of the Spouse of the Deceased Employee or deceased Retired Employee, in each case using the actuarial principles and assumptions set forth in
EXHIBIT A to the Plan; provided, however, that a Single Sum Payment with respect to a Grandfathered Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant shall equal the greater of (i) the amount determined pursuant to the foregoing
provisions of this ARTICLE I(oo) and (ii) the amount required to purchase a single life annuity (or, for purposes of Appendix 2, a Benefit Equalization Joint and Survivor Allowance) equal to the benefit otherwise identified under the
Plan from a licensed commercial insurance company, as determined in the sole discretion of the Administrator. 
 (i) A Single Sum
Payment shall be the exclusive form of distribution of the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance (including payments with respect to benefits earned under the UST Plans), except with respect to: 

(1) that portion of the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance derived solely from the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement
Allowance and that is payable to a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is only eligible for a Vested Retirement Allowance at his Separation from Service; and 
 (2) that portion of the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance derived solely from the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement 

  
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Allowance and that is payable to a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant who has timely elected to receive after his Date of Retirement that portion of his Benefit
Equalization Retirement Allowance equal to the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance in the form of an Optional Payment pursuant to ARTICLE IIE(3)(a) of the Plan and which election does not cease to be of any force and effect
pursuant to ARTICLE IIE(3)(d) of the Plan. 
 (ii) A Single Sum Payment shall be the exclusive form of distribution of the
Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance, except with respect to: 
 (1) that portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined
Allowance derived solely from the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance and that is payable to a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is only eligible for a Vested Retirement Allowance at his Separation from Service; and 

(2) that portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance derived solely from the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement
Allowance and that is payable to a Grandfathered Retired Employee who has timely elected to receive after his Date of Retirement that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance equal to the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement
Allowance in the form of an Optional Payment pursuant to ARTICLE IIE(3)(a) of the Plan and which election does not cease to be of any force and effect pursuant to ARTICLE IIE(3)(d) of the Plan. 

(iii) A Single Sum Payment shall be the exclusive form of distribution of the Benefit Equalization Survivor Allowance, except with respect
to that portion of the Benefit Equalization Survivor Allowance derived solely from that portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement
Allowance payable to the Spouse of a Grandfathered Deceased Employee or the Spouse of a deceased Grandfathered Retired Employee. 

(iv) A Single Sum Payment shall be the exclusive form of distribution of the Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance, except with
respect to that portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance payable to a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is a
Secular Trust Participant who has timely elected to receive after his Date of Retirement that portion of his Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance equal to the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance in the form of an
Optional Payment pursuant to ARTICLE IIF(3) of the Plan. 
 (pp) “Specified Employee” shall have the
meaning given in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(i). 

  
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 (qq) “Statutory Limitations” shall mean: 

(i) the Section 415 Limitations, and 
 (ii) the Compensation Limitation. 
 (rr) “Supplemental Enrollment
Agreement” shall mean the most recent of any Supplemental Employee Grantor Trust Enrollment Agreements and Supplemental Cash Enrollment Agreements between a TP Employee and a Participating Company or their affiliates or predecessors.

 (ss) “Survivor Allowance Latest Payment Date” shall mean the later of: 

(i) December 31st of the year in which the Survivor Allowance Payment Date occurs, or 

(ii) the fifteenth day of the third month following the Survivor Allowance Payment Date. 

(tt) “Survivor Allowance Payment Date” shall mean the first day of the third calendar month following the month in which
the Deceased Employee or deceased Retired Employee died. 
 (uu) “TP Employee” shall mean an Employee
identified in Appendix 1, as a result of his participation in the target payment program for the calendar years 2005 through 2007. 
 (vv) “Trust Account TP” shall mean the trust subaccount established pursuant to a Employee’s Supplemental Enrollment Agreement and to which target payments have been credited.

 (ww) “Trust Account TP Value” shall mean, 

(i) with respect to a TP Employee for whom a Trust Account TP has been established, the sum of the amounts credited to the TP
Employee’s Assumed Trust Account TP and Trust Account TP as of the earlier of the date: 
 (1) on which the TP
Employee’s Trust Account TP is terminated and distributed in accordance with the procedures established by the Administrator, 
 (2) that is 60 days after the TP Employee’s Separation from Service, or 
 (3)
on which a Change in Control occurs, and 
 (ii) with respect to a TP Employee for whom a Trust Account TP has not been
established, the amounts credited to the TP Employee’s Assumed Trust Account TP as of the earlier of the date: 

  
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 (1) of the TP Employee’s Separation from Service, or 

(2) on which a Change in Control occurs, 
 in each case, reduced by the estimated amount of any taxes that would be attributable to income or assumed income from these accounts assuming liquidation of the accounts as of the applicable
determination date set out above, but which have not been paid or deducted from these accounts, calculated using the income tax rate assumptions set forth in Appendix 3 and disregarding any withholding for the TP Employee’s share of
employment taxes. 
 (xx) “UST Plan Benefit” shall mean the benefit earned by a UST Employee under the terms of
the UST Plans as in effect on December 31, 2009, (including the provisions of the UST LLC Retirement Income Plan for Salaried Employees that ceased the earning of any service used to compute the amount of a UST Employee’s benefits as of
December 31, 2009), including any increase in such benefit as a result of Compensation paid after December 31, 2009, and vesting service completed after December 31, 2009, that is used to determine if the UST Employee is eligible for
any early retirement subsidy. 
 (yy) “UST Employee” shall mean an Employee who has accrued a UST Plan Benefit.

 (zz) “UST Plans” shall mean: 
 (i) the UST Inc. Benefit Restoration Plan, as amended and in effect immediately prior to the merger of that portion of its liabilities allocable to benefits that were payable from the Benefit Restoration
Plan solely as a result of the limitations on compensation under Section 401(a)(17) of the Code into the liabilities of the Plan; 
 (ii) the UST Inc. Excess Retirement Benefit Plan, as amended and in effect immediately prior to the merger of its liabilities into the liabilities of the Plan; and 

(iii) the UST Inc. Officers’ Supplemental Retirement Plan, as amended and in effect immediately prior to the merger of its
liabilities into the liabilities of the Plan. 
 (aaa) “UST Supplemental Retirement Plan Participant” shall
mean a UST Employee who was an “Eligible Employee” and who meets the requirements to become a “Participant” in the UST Inc. Officers’ Supplemental Retirement Plan (whether such Eligible Employee meets such requirements
before or after December 31, 2009). The UST Plan Benefit payable to a UST Supplemental Retirement Plan Participant on the Payment Date set forth in Article I(ee)(ii)(2) is set forth in Appendix 5 to this Plan. 

The masculine pronoun shall include the feminine pronoun unless the context clearly requires otherwise. 

  
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 ARTICLE II 
 BENEFIT EQUALIZATION RETIREMENT ALLOWANCES, BENEFIT 
 EQUALIZATION
PROFIT-SHARING ALLOWANCES AND BENEFIT 
 EQUALIZATION COMBINED ALLOWANCES 

 

	A.	Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowances and other benefits payable under this Plan with respect to a Retired Employee who was not a TP Employee shall be as follows:

 (1) (a) Subject to the provisions of subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this ARTICLE IIA(1), the Benefit
Equalization Retirement Allowance with respect to a Retired Employee who was not a TP Employee shall equal the sum of (i) and (ii) below: 
 (i) the amount by which the Retirement Allowance under the Retirement Plan accrued to the Date of Retirement, if computed without regard to the Statutory Limitations, exceeds the amount of the Retirement
Allowance actually payable under the Retirement Plan, plus 
 (ii) in the case of a Retired Employee who is eligible to receive
an enhanced benefit under the Qualified Plan (such as a benefit payable pursuant to a voluntary early retirement program or a shutdown benefit), but whose additional accrued benefit resulting solely from participation in such program or benefit may
not be paid from the Qualified Plan because of the nondiscrimination requirements of Section 401(a)(4) of the Code, or the coverage requirements of Section 410(b) of the Code, the amount of such additional accrued benefit payable to such
Retired Employee solely as a result of his participation in such program or benefit. 
 (b) In no event shall any
increase in a Grandfathered Employee’s Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance resulting from an amendment to the Retirement Plan to add or remove a subsidized benefit, change the time and form of payment of the Benefit Equalization
Retirement Allowance earned prior to the date of such amendment. 
 (c) In the event that all or any portion of
the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance with respect to the Retired Employee described in ARTICLE IIA(1)(a) of the Plan is paid in a Single Sum Payment in accordance with the provisions of ARTICLE IIE prior to the Retired
Employee’s Benefit Commencement Date under the Retirement Plan, the amount of such Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance shall equal the amount by which the Retirement Allowance under the Retirement Plan accrued to the Date of Retirement,
if computed without regard to the Statutory Limitations, is reasonably estimated by the Administrator to exceed the amount of the Retirement Allowance which is projected by the Administrator to be actually payable under the Retirement Plan.

 (d) In the event that all or any portion of the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance with respect to a
Retired Employee described in ARTICLE IIA(1)(a) of the Plan is paid in a Single Sum Payment in accordance with the provisions of ARTICLE IIE prior to the date the Retired Employee shall have specified on his application for

  
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retirement as the Benefit Commencement Date of his Retirement Allowance under the Retirement Plan, the Single Sum Payment shall be calculated based on the assumption that the Retired Employee
elected to receive a Retirement Allowance at his Unreduced Early Retirement Benefit Commencement Date or Unreduced Vested Retirement Benefit Commencement Date, as applicable to the Retired Employee. 

(e) If, as a result of the execution of a General Release Agreement (and not revoking it), (A) an Employee first
obtains a legally binding right to payment of an increase in his Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, (B) as of the first date the Employee obtains a legally binding right to such increase it is subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture
(within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(d)), then the amount of such increase in the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance with respect to such Employee shall be the amount as set forth in the General Release Agreement
and shall be payable at the BEP Benefit Commencement Date specified in ARTICLE I(k)(1)(iv) of the Plan provided, however that no such increase in an Employee’s Benefit Equalization Allowance shall change either the time or form of payment of
the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance of a Grandfathered Employee otherwise payable pursuant to the terms of the Plan. The provisions of this paragraph are in lieu of, and not in addition to, the benefits provided pursuant to
the provisions of ARTICLE IIA(1)(a)(ii) of the Plan. 
 (2) The Spouse of 

(a) a Deceased Employee (other than a TP Employee), or 

(b) a deceased Retired Employee (other than a deceased Retired TP Employee and a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is a
Secular Trust Participant who made an election for a Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Optional Payment Allowance and designated a Beneficiary other than his Spouse) who has died after his Date of Retirement and before his BEP Benefit Commencement
Date, or 
 (c) a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant whose request for an Optional
Payment pursuant to ARTICLE I(dd)(i)(2) or (3) of the Plan with respect to that portion of his Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Allowance has been granted by the Administrator, but who has
died after his Date of Retirement and before his BEP Benefit Commencement Date, 
 shall, in each case, be eligible to receive a
Benefit Equalization Survivor Allowance. 
  

	B.	Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowances payable under this Plan shall be as follows: 

(1) The Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance with respect to an Employee who is not a TP Employee or a Match-Eligible Employee
shall equal the amounts which would have been credited, but were not credited to his Company Account as a result of the Statutory Limitations. 

  
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 (2) The Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance with respect to an Employee who is a
Match-Eligible Employee, but who is not a TP Employee shall equal the sum of (a) and (b) below: 
 (a)
the amounts which would have been credited, but were not credited to his Company Account as a result of the Statutory Limitations, plus 
 (b) the amount of Company Match Contributions that could not be made to the Profit-Sharing Plan for a calendar year as a result of the Statutory Limitations, based on the percentage of Compensation that
each Match-Eligible Employee had elected to make to the Profit-Sharing Plan for such calendar year. 
 (3) The amounts credited
pursuant to ARTICLE IIB(2)(a) shall be deemed credited on the same date as the Company Contribution is made to the Profit-Sharing Plan. The amounts credited pursuant to ARTICLE IIB(2)(b) shall be deemed credited on January 1 immediately
succeeding the calendar year for which such Company Match Contributions could not be made to the Profit-Sharing Plan. All such amounts shall be deemed to have been invested in Part C of the Fund (as defined in the Profit-Sharing Plan) and
valued in accordance with the provisions of the Profit-Sharing Plan. 
  

	C.	Benefit Equalization Combined Allowances payable under this Plan shall be as follows: 

(1) (a) Subject to the provisions of subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this ARTICLE IIC of the Plan, the Benefit Equalization
Combined Allowance of a TP Employee shall be equal to the sum of clauses (i) and (ii) and subject to the proviso in clause (iii): 
 (i) the amount by which the Full, Deferred, Early or Vested Retirement Allowance under the Retirement Plan accrued to the Date of Retirement, expressed in the form of a Retirement Allowance, if computed
without regard to the Statutory Limitations, exceeds the amount of the Full, Deferred, Early or Vested Retirement Allowance actually payable under the Retirement Plan, expressed in the form of a Retirement Allowance. 

(A) In computing the amount under ARTICLE IIC(1)(a)(i) with respect to a TP Employee who is eligible for a Full, Deferred or Vested
Retirement Allowance, but is not eligible for an Early Retirement Allowance as of the TP Employee’s Separation from Service or, if later, the end of the TP Employee’s policy severance, such Full, Deferred or Vested Allowance shall equal
the Actuarial Equivalent of the TP Employee’s Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance (assuming that it is payable in monthly payments for the lifetime of the Employee), computed as though such Allowance were payable under the terms of the
Retirement Plan as a Retirement Allowance at the later of age sixty-five (65), or the age of the TP Employee at his Separation from Service or, if later, the end of the TP Employee’s policy severance. If such Allowance is to be paid in a Single
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such Full, Deferred or Vested Retirement Allowance shall equal the present value of such Allowance that would be payable to the former TP Employee as of the date he will attain the age of
sixty-five (65), determined as of the first day of the month following the month in which the former TP Employee Separated from Service (or died, in the case of a payment to the Spouse of the deceased TP Employee). 

(B) In computing the amount under ARTICLE IIC(1)(a)(i) with respect to a TP Employee who is eligible for an Early Retirement Allowance,
whether reduced or unreduced, but is not eligible for a Full, Deferred or Vested Retirement Allowance, as of the TP Employee’s Separation from Service or, if later, the end of the TP Employee’s policy severance, such Early Retirement
Allowance shall be the Actuarial Equivalent of the TP Employee’s Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance (assuming that it is payable in monthly payments for the lifetime of the Employee), computed as though such Allowance were payable under
the terms of the Retirement Plan as a Retirement Allowance commencing on the first day of the month coincident with or next following the Employee’s Separation from Service, or, if later, at the end of the Employee’s policy severance. If
such Allowance is to be paid in a Single Sum Payment, such Early Retirement Allowance shall equal the present value of such Allowance that would be payable to the former TP Employee as of the first day of the month coincident with or next following
the Employee’s Separation from Service, or, if later, at the end of the Employee’s policy severance date he will attain the age of sixty-five (65), determined as of the first day of the month following the month in which the former TP
Employee Separated from Service (or died, in the case of a payment to the Spouse of the deceased TP Employee); plus 
 (ii) the
amounts which would have been credited, but were not credited to his Company Account as a result of the Statutory Limitations; 

(iii) provided, however, that, that portion of a TP Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance which is not his
Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance and Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance shall equal the amount of the TP Employee’s After-Tax BEP Combined Allowance converted to a pre-tax amount. Such pre-tax
amount shall equal an amount sufficient to cause the amount remaining after withholding of income taxes (determined as if withholding for federal, state and local income taxes were effected at the rates specified in Appendix 3), but
disregarding any withholding for the TP Employee’s share of employment taxes, to equal the After-Tax BEP Combined Allowance. 
 (iv) A sample calculation of a TP Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance is set forth in Appendix 4. 

  
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 (b) In no event shall any increase in a TP Employee’s Benefit
Equalization Combined Allowance resulting from an amendment to the Retirement Plan to add or remove a subsidized benefit, change the time and form of payment of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance earned prior to the date of such amendment.

 (c) In the event that all or any portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance with respect to the
Grandfathered Retired Employee described in ARTICLE IIC(1)(a) of the Plan is paid in a Single Sum Payment in accordance with the provisions of ARTICLE IIE(1)(b) of the Plan prior to the TP Employee’s Benefit Commencement Date under
the Retirement Plan, the amount of such Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is allocable to the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance shall equal the amount by which the Retirement Allowance under the Retirement Plan accrued to the Date
of Retirement, if computed without regard to the Statutory Limitations, is reasonably estimated by the Administrator to exceed the amount of the Retirement Allowance which is projected by the Administrator to be actually payable under the Retirement
Plan. 
 (d) In the event that all or any portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance with respect to
a Retired TP Employee described in ARTICLE IIC(1)(a) of the Plan is paid in a Single Sum Payment in accordance with the provisions of ARTICLE IIE(1)(b) of the Plan prior to the date the Retired TP Employee shall have specified on his
application for retirement as the Benefit Commencement Date of his Retirement Allowance under the Retirement Plan, the Single Sum Payment shall be calculated based on the assumption that the Retired TP Employee elected to receive a Retirement
Allowance at his Unreduced Early Retirement Benefit Commencement Date or Unreduced Vested Retirement Benefit Commencement Date, as applicable to the Retired TP Employee. 

(e) If, as a result of the execution of a General Release Agreement (and not revoking it), (A) a TP Employee first
obtains a legally binding right to payment of an increase in his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance, (B) as of the first date the TP Employee obtains a legally binding right to such increase it is subject to a substantial risk of
forfeiture (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-1(d)), then the amount of such increase in the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance with respect to such TP Employee shall be the amount as set forth in the General Release
Agreement and shall be payable at the BEP Benefit Commencement Date specified in ARTICLE I(k)(1)(iv) of the Plan, provided, however that no such increase in a TP Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance shall change either the time or
form of payment of that portion of the TP Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance allocable to the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance and Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance otherwise
payable pursuant to the terms of the Plan. 
 (2) The Spouse of a TP Employee or deceased Grandfathered Retired Employee who dies
before his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance is paid shall be eligible to receive that portion of the Grandfathered Employee’s or deceased Grandfathered Retired Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the Benefit
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provided that, with respect to that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance allocable to his Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, the deceased Grandfathered
Retired Employee did not make an election for a Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Optional Payment Allowance and designated a Beneficiary other than his Spouse; and, provided, further, that with respect to that portion of his Benefit Equalization
Combined Allowance allocable to his Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that is not the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, such Benefit Equalization Survivor Allowance shall be the amount calculated as follows:

 (a) Determine the amount, if any, by which (i) the Grandfathered Employee’s Trust Account TP Value exceeds
(ii) the amount calculated under ARTICLE IIC(3)(a) below. 
 (b) If the TP Employee dies before terminating employment with
the Controlled Group, determine one half of the amount that would be that portion of the Grandfathered Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is his Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that is not the Grandfathered
Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance if (i) the TP Employee had survived and had a Separation from Service on his date of death and (ii) the term Benefit Equalization Joint and Survivor Allowance were substituted for the term
Retirement Allowance in each place that such term appears in ARTICLE IIA(1)(a) of the Plan. 
 (c) Determine the amount that
would remain if income taxes (determined as if withholding for federal, state and local income taxes were effected at the rates specified in Appendix 3, but disregarding any withholding for the Grandfathered Employee’s share of
employment taxes) were withheld on the amount determined under ARTICLE IIC(2)(b). 
 (d) If the TP Employee dies after
terminating employment with the Controlled Group but before his BEP Benefit Commencement Date, determine the amount that would remain if income taxes (determined as if withholding for federal, state and local income taxes were effected at the rates
specified in Appendix 3), but disregarding any withholding for the Grandfathered Employee’s share of employment taxes, were withheld on that portion of the Grandfathered Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is his
Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance and that is not the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance. 
 (e) The
portion of the Benefit Equalization Survivor Allowance that is not the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance shall equal an amount sufficient to cause the amount remaining after withholding of income taxes (determined as if
withholding for federal, state and local income taxes were effected at the rates specified in Appendix 3, but disregarding any withholding for the Grandfathered Employee’s share of employment taxes) to equal: 

  
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 (i) If the TP Employee dies before terminating employment with the Controlled Group, the
amount by which (i) the amount determined under ARTICLE IIC(2)(c) of the Plan exceeds (ii) the remaining Trust Account TP Value, if any, determined under ARTICLE IIC(2)(a) of the Plan; or 

(ii) If the TP Employee dies after terminating employment with the Controlled Group but before his BEP Benefit Commencement Date, the
amount by which (i) the amount determined under ARTICLE IIC(2)(d) of the Plan exceeds (ii) the remaining Trust Account TP Value, if any, determined under ARTICLE IIC(2)(a) of the Plan. 

(3) If a Grandfathered Employee dies before his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance has been paid, the Grandfathered Employee’s
Beneficiary shall be eligible to receive that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance allocable to his Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance; provided that the portion of such Allowance that is not the Grandfathered Benefit
Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance shall be in an amount calculated as follows: 
 (a) Determine the amount
that would remain if income taxes (determined as if withholding for federal, state and local income taxes were effected at the rates specified in Appendix 3, but disregarding any withholding for the Grandfathered Employee’s share of
employment taxes) were withheld on that portion of the Grandfathered Employee’s Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is not the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance. 

(b) Determine the amount, if any, by which (i) the amount determined under ARTICLE IIC(3)(a) exceeds (ii) the
Grandfathered Employee’s Trust Account TP Value. 
 (c) The portion of such Benefit Equalization
Profit-Sharing Allowance that is not the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance payable under this ARTICLE IIC(3) shall equal an amount sufficient to cause the amount remaining after withholding of income taxes (determined as if
withholding for federal, state and local income taxes were effected at the rates specified in Appendix 3, but disregarding any withholding for the Grandfathered Employee’s share of employment taxes) to equal the amount, if any,
determined under ARTICLE IIC(3)(b). 
 (4) The Beneficiary of a Grandfathered Retired Employee whose request for an Optional
Payment in the form of a Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Optional Payment Allowance has been granted by the Administrator, but who dies after his Date of Retirement and prior to his BEP Benefit Commencement Date shall be eligible to receive that
portion of the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Optional Payment Allowance elected by the Grandfathered Retired Employee which is payable after the death of the Grandfathered Retired Employee. 

(5) The Spouse of a Grandfathered Retired Employee whose request for an Optional Payment pursuant to clauses (2) or (3) of
ARTICLE I(dd)(i) of the Plan with respect to that portion of his Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Allowance has been granted by the Administrator, but who dies after his Date of

  
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Retirement and prior to his BEP Benefit Commencement Date, shall be eligible to receive a Benefit Equalization Survivor Allowance. 

 

	D.	UST Plan Benefit payable under this Plan shall be as follows: 

 (1) The UST Plan Benefit of a UST Employee who is not a UST Supplemental Retirement Participant shall be paid in a Single Sum Payment on the Payment Date specified in ARTICLE I(ee)(ii)(1). 

(2) The UST Plan Benefit of a UST Supplemental Retirement Participant shall be paid in a Single Sum Payment on the Payment Date specified
in ARTICLE I(ee)(ii)(2). 
  

	E.	BEP Benefit Commencement Date and termination of Benefit Equalization Combined Allowances and Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowances payable in the form of an
Optional Payment: 

 (1) (a) The Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance payable pursuant to
ARTICLE IIA(1)(a) of the Plan shall be distributed in a Single Sum Payment on the BEP Benefit Commencement Date specified in ARTICLE I(k)(1)(i). If a Retired Employee described in ARTICLE IIA(1)(a) dies after his Date of Retirement and
before payment of his Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance is paid in a Single Sum Payment, his Beneficiary shall receive a Single Sum Payment on the Benefit Commencement Date specified in ARTICLE I(k)(1)(i). 

(b) Except as provided in ARTICLE IIE(1)(c) below, the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance payable pursuant to
ARTICLE IIC(1) of the Plan shall be distributed to a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is eligible for an Early, Full or Deferred Retirement Allowance in a Single Sum Payment on the Benefit Commencement Date specified in ARTICLE I(k)(1)(i). If
the Grandfathered Retired Employee dies after his Date of Retirement and before payment of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance is paid in a Single Sum Payment, his Beneficiary shall receive a Single Sum Payment on the Benefit Commencement
Date specified in ARTICLE I(k)(1)(i) of the Plan. 
 (c) The Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance payable
pursuant to ARTICLE IIC(1) of the Plan shall be distributed to a Grandfathered Retired Employee who is only eligible for a Vested Retirement Allowance at his Separation from Service, as follows: 

(i) that portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Allowance shall be
distributed in accordance with the Grandfathered Retired Employee’s BEP Benefit Commencement Date described in ARTICLE I(k)(1)(iii) of the Plan and shall be paid in the same form of Optional Payment which the Grandfathered Retired
Employee’s Vested Retirement Allowance is paid from the Retirement Plan; and 

  
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 (ii) that portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is not the
Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Allowance shall be distributed to the Retired Employee in a Single Sum Payment on the Benefit Commencement Date specified in ARTICLE I(k)(1)(i) of the Plan. 

(2) If any Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance or Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance payable in a Single Sum Payment is paid
after the Payment Date, interest (at a rate determined in the sole discretion of the Administrator) from the date the Retired Employee Separated from Service to the last day of the month preceding the month in which payment is made, shall be added
to the amount of the Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance otherwise payable to the Retired Employee (or Spouse). 
 (3) (a)
A Grandfathered Retired Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant who is eligible to retire on a Full, Deferred or Early Retirement Allowance at his Separation from Service may make application to the Administrator to receive an Optional Payment
with respect to that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance allocable to his Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance in lieu of the Single Sum Payment otherwise payable after his Date of Retirement. The application
for an Optional Payment shall specify: 
 (i) the form in which such Optional Payment is to be paid; 

(ii) the Beneficiary, if any, who will receive benefits after the death of the Grandfathered Retired Employee; and 

(iii) the BEP Benefit Commencement Date. 
 (b) In the case of a Grandfathered Retired Employee who eighteen (18) months prior to attaining the age of sixty-five (65) years could be compulsorily retired by his Participating Company upon
attaining the age of sixty-five (65) years pursuant to Section 12(c) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, any application for an Optional Payment must be filed with the Administrator more than one (1) year preceding the date
the Grandfathered Retired Employee attains the age of sixty-five (65) years. 
 (c) The Administrator may
grant or deny any such application in its sole and absolute discretion. Except as provided in Subparagraphs (d)(i) and (f) of this ARTICLE IIE, a Grandfathered Retired Employee shall not receive that portion of his Benefit Equalization
Combined Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance in the form of a Single Sum Payment after the Administrator has granted the Grandfathered Retired Employee application for an Optional Payment. In the event the
Grandfathered Retired Employee incurs a Change in Circumstance on or after the date of the filing of the application for an Optional Payment and prior to his BEP Benefit Commencement Date, the Grandfathered Retired Employee may file an application
with the Administrator within ninety (90) days of the Change in Circumstance, but in no event later than his BEP Benefit Commencement Date, to change the form of Optional Payment, or to change the Beneficiary who is to receive a benefit after
the death of the Grandfathered Retired Employee in accordance with the Optional Payment method originally filed with the Administrator. 

  
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 (d) An application for an Optional Payment shall be of no force and effect
if: 
 (i) the Grandfathered Retired Employee does not retire on a Full, Deferred or Early Retirement Allowance; 

(ii) the Grandfathered Retired Employee incurs a disability at any time before the date his Optional Payment commences to be made which
causes him to be eligible for benefits under the Long-Term Disability Plan for Salaried Employees; or 
 (iii) the Grandfathered
Retired Employee is retired for ill health or disability under Paragraph S2.03(b) of Part II of the Retirement Plan. 
 (e) In the event the application for an Optional Payment is of no force and effect as a result of an event described in clauses (ii) or (iii) of ARTICLE IIE(3)(d) of the Plan, payment of
that portion of the Grandfathered Retired Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance shall be made in a Single Sum Payment pursuant to ARTICLE I(k)(1) of the Plan on
the Payment Date, but not later than the Latest Payment Date, but otherwise such application for an Optional Payment shall be effective on the Grandfathered Retired Employee’s Date of Retirement on a Full, Deferred or Early Retirement Allowance
and the Grandfathered Retired Employee’s benefits shall commence on the BEP Benefit Commencement Date specified in ARTICLE I(k)(1)(ii)(A) of the Plan; provided, however, that if within the one (1) year period following the date of the
filing of the application with the Administrator the Grandfathered Retired Employee voluntarily retires or his employment is terminated for misconduct (as determined by the Administrator) by any member of the Controlled Group, the Optional Payment
shall be reduced by one percent (1%) for each month (or portion of a month) by which the month in which the Grandfathered Retired Employee’s termination of employment precedes the first anniversary of the filing of the application with the
Administrator and his benefits shall commence in the BEP Benefit Commencement Date specified in ARTICLE I(k)(1)(ii)(B) of the Plan. 
 (f) If a Grandfathered Retired Employee whose request for an Optional Payment in the form of a Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Optional Payment Allowance has been granted by the Administrator dies
after his Date of Retirement and prior to his BEP Benefit Commencement Date, his Beneficiary shall be eligible to receive that portion of the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Optional Payment Allowance elected by the Grandfathered Retired Employee
which is payable after the death of the Grandfathered Retired Employee. 
 (g) Notwithstanding the preceding
provisions of this Paragraph E, 
 (i) the Administrator may cause the distribution of that portion of the Benefit Equalization
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situated Grandfathered Retired Employees (or their Spouses or other Beneficiaries) in a Single Sum Payment or as an Optional Payment; and 

(ii) the Administrator shall distribute that portion of an Employee’s Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is the
Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance in a Single Sum Payment if such portion of the Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance payable in equal monthly payments is not more than $250 per month. 

(4) The Benefit Equalization Survivor Allowance payable pursuant to ARTICLE IIA(2)(a) and ARTICLE IIC(2) of the Plan shall be paid in
a Single Sum Payment on the BEP Benefit Commencement Date described in ARTICLE I(k)(3)(i)(A) provided, however, that the portion of the Benefit Equalization Survivor Allowance that is derived from the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement
Allowance shall be paid on the BEP Benefit Commencement Date described in ARTICLE I(k)(3)(i)(B). 
  

	F.	Commencement and termination of Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowances: 

 (1) The Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance payable pursuant to ARTICLE IIB(1) of the Plan shall be distributed to the Retired Employee in a Single Sum Payment on the Payment Date, but not later
than the Latest Payment Date, unless, solely in the case of a Grandfathered Retired Employee, the Administrator has approved his election to have distribution of that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization
Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance made in accordance with ARTICLE IIF(3) of the Plan. 
 (2) If an Employee or Retired Employee dies before his Single Sum Payment has been paid and without having the approval by the Administrator for payment of that portion of his Benefit Equalization
Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance in the form of an Optional Payment, the Single Sum Payment otherwise payable to the Employee or Retired
Employee shall be paid to his Beneficiary on the Payment Date, but not later than the Latest Payment Date. 
 (3) (a) A
Grandfathered Employee who is a Secular Trust Participant may make an application to the Administrator to receive an Optional Payment with respect to that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing
Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance in lieu of the Single Sum Payment otherwise payable to him on the Benefit Commencement Date specified in ARTICLE I(k)(2) after he becomes a Grandfathered Retired
Employee. The application for an Optional Payment shall specify: 
 (i) the form in which such Optional Payment is to be paid;
and 
 (ii) the Beneficiary who will receive the balance of that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or
Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing 

  
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Allowance after the death of the Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired Employee. 
 (b) In the case of a Grandfathered Employee who eighteen (18) months prior to attaining the age of sixty-five (65) years could be compulsorily retired by his Participating Company upon attaining
the age of sixty-five (65) years pursuant to Section 12(c) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, any application for an Optional Payment must be filed with the Administrator more than one (1) year preceding the date the
Grandfathered Employee attains the age of sixty-five (65) years. 
 (c) The Administrator may grant or deny
any such application in its sole and absolute discretion. A Grandfathered Employee shall not receive that portion of his Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance that is the Grandfathered Benefit
Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance in the form of a Single Sum Payment after the Administrator has granted the Grandfathered Employee’s application for an Optional Payment. In the event the Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired
Employee has elected to receive his Optional Payment over the joint life expectancies of he and his Beneficiary and incurs a Change in Circumstance described in ARTICLE I(l)(ii), ARTICLE I(l)(iii), or ARTICLE I(l)(iv) of the Plan on or after the
date of the filing of the application and prior to the date his Optional Payment commences to be paid, the Grandfathered Employee or Grandfathered Retired Employee may file an application with the Administrator within ninety (90) days of the
Change in Circumstance, but in no event later than the date his Optional Payment is scheduled to commence to be paid to designate a new Beneficiary or elect to receive his Optional Payment over the life expectancy of the Grandfathered Employee or
Grandfathered Retired Employee. 
 (d) If within the one (1) year period following the date of the filing of
the application for an Optional Payment with the Administrator, the Grandfathered Employee voluntarily retires (other than for ill health or disability under Paragraph S2.03(b) of Part II of the Retirement Plan), voluntarily terminates his
employment with his Participating Company (other than for a disability which causes him to be eligible for benefits under the Long-Term Disability Plan for Salaried Employees), or his employment is terminated for misconduct (as determined by the
Administrator) by any member of the Controlled Group, the Optional Payment shall be reduced in the same manner as specified in ARTICLE IIE(3)(e) hereof. 
 (e) If a Grandfathered Retired Employee dies after he Separates from Service and prior to the date his Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance is paid or commences to be paid, payment
shall be made to his Beneficiary commencing in the form and on the date specified in the application. 
 (4) Notwithstanding the
preceding provisions of this Paragraph F: 
 (a) the Administrator may cause the distribution of that
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is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance to any group of similarly situated Beneficiaries in a Single Sum Payment or as an Optional Payment; and 

(b) the Administrator shall distribute a Grandfathered Employee’s or Grandfathered Retired Employee’s Benefit
Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance in a Single Sum Payment if the value of such Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance is not more than $10,000. 
  

	G.	Application or Notification for Payment of Allowances: 

 An application for retirement pursuant to Paragraph G2.07 of Part I and Paragraph S2.07 of Part II of the Retirement Plan shall be deemed notification to the Administrator of the BEP Benefit Commencement
Date of a Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance (or other benefit) in accordance with the terms of this Plan. In the event a Grandfathered Employee shall not have elected an Optional Payment method with
respect to his Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, any such notification shall specify the Beneficiary to whom payment of the Single Sum Payment shall be made in the event the Employee dies after his Date of Retirement and prior
to his BEP Benefit Commencement Date. 
 An Employee or Retired Employee (or Beneficiary) shall make application to the
Administrator (or his delegate) for distribution of Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance under this Plan. 
  

	H.	Allocation of Payments: 

 The
Administrator may use any reasonable method, as determined in his sole discretion, to designate amounts paid under the Plan to a TP Employee (or Spouse or other Beneficiary) as a Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance (other than that portion
that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance) and Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance (other than that portion that is the Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance) and to allocate benefits among
the plans, programs and arrangements that constitute the Plan as described herein. 

  
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 ARTICLE III 
 FUNDS FROM WHICH ALLOWANCES ARE PAYABLE 
 Individual accounts shall be
established for the benefit of each Employee and Retired Employee (or Beneficiary) under the Plan. Any benefits payable from an individual account shall be payable solely to the Employee, Retired Employee (or Beneficiary) for whom such account was
established. The Plan shall be unfunded. All benefits intended to be provided under the Plan shall be paid from time to time from the general assets of the Employee’s or Retired Employee’s Participating Company and paid in accordance with
the provisions of the Plan; provided, however, that the Participating Companies reserve the right to meet the obligations created under the Plan through one or more trusts or other agreements. In no event shall any such trust or trusts be outside of
the United States. The contributions by each Participating Company on behalf of its Employees and Retired Employees to the individual accounts established pursuant to the provisions of the Plan, whether in trust or otherwise, shall be in an amount
which such Participating Company, with the advice of an actuary, determines to be sufficient to provide for the payment of the benefits under the Plan. 

  
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 ARTICLE IV 
 THE ADMINISTRATOR 
 The general administration of the Plan shall be vested
in the Administrator. 
 All powers, rights, duties and responsibilities assigned to the Administrator under the Retirement Plan
applicable to this Plan shall be the powers, rights, duties and responsibilities of the Administrator under the terms of this Plan, except that the Administrator shall not be a fiduciary (within the meaning of Section 3(21) of ERISA) with
respect to any portion or all of the Plan which is intended to be exempt from the requirements of ERISA pursuant to Section 4(b)(5) of ERISA or which is described in Section 401(a)(1) of ERISA and exempt from the requirements of Part 4 of
Title I of ERISA. 

  
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 ARTICLE V 
 AMENDMENT AND 
 DISCONTINUANCE OF THE PLAN 

The Board may, from time to time, and at any time, amend the Plan; provided, however, that authority to amend the Plan is delegated to
the following committees or individuals where approval of the Plan amendment or amendments by the shareholders of Altria Group, Inc. is not required: (1) to the Corporate Employee Benefit Committee, if the amendment (or amendments) will not
increase the annual cost of the Plan by $10,000,000 and (2) to the Administrator, if the amendment (or amendments) will not increase the annual cost of the Plan by $500,000. 

Any amendment to the Plan may effect a substantial change in the Plan and may include (but shall not be limited to) any change deemed by
the Company to be necessary or desirable to obtain tax benefits under any existing or future laws or rules or regulations thereunder; provided, however, that no such amendment shall deprive any Employee, Retired Employee (or Beneficiary) of any
Allowances accrued at the time of such amendment. 
 The Plan may be discontinued at any time by the Board; provided, however,
that such discontinuance shall not deprive any Employee, Retired Employee (or Beneficiary) of any Allowances accrued at the time of such discontinuance. 

  
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 ARTICLE VI 
 FORMS; COMMUNICATIONS 
 The Administrator shall provide such appropriate
forms as it may deem expedient in the administration of the Plan and no action to be taken under the Plan (for which a form is so provided) shall be valid unless upon such form. Any Plan communication may be made by electronic medium to the extent
allowed by applicable law. The Administrator may adopt reasonable procedures to enable an Employee or Retired Employee to make an election using electronic medium (including an interactive telephone system and a website on the Intranet). 

All communications concerning the Plan shall be in writing addressed to the Administrator at such address as may from time to time be
designated. No communication shall be effective for any purpose unless received by the Administrator. 

  
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 ARTICLE VII 
 INTERPRETATION OF PROVISIONS 
 The Administrator shall have the full power
and authority to grant or deny requests for payment of a Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance or Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance in accordance with a form of distribution authorized under the Retirement Plan and to grant or deny
requests for payment of a Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance in accordance with a form of distribution authorized under the Profit-Sharing Plan to the extent permitted under Section 409A of the Code. The Management Committee for
Employee Benefits shall have the full power and authority to grant or deny requests for payment of a Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance or Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance by the
Administrator. 
 The Administrator shall have full power and authority with respect to all other matters arising in the
administration, interpretation and application of the Plan, including discretionary authority to construe plan terms and provisions, to determine all questions that arise under the Plan such as the eligibility of any employee of a Participating
Company to participate under the Plan; to determine the amount of any benefit to which any person is entitled to under the Plan; to make factual determinations and to remedy any ambiguities, inconsistencies or omissions of any kind. 

The Plan is intended to comply with the applicable requirements of Section 409A of the Code. Accordingly, where applicable, this
Plan shall at all times be construed and administered in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code and applicable regulations without any diminution in the value of benefits. 

  
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 ARTICLE VIII 
 CHANGE IN CONTROL PROVISIONS 
  

	A.	In the event of a Change in Control, each Employee shall be fully vested in his Allowances and any other benefits accrued through the date of the Change in Control
(“Accrued Benefits”). Each Employee (or his Beneficiary) shall, upon the Change in Control, be entitled to a lump sum in cash, payable within thirty (30) days of the Change in Control, equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of his Accrued
Benefits, determined using actuarial assumptions no less favorable than those used under the Supplemental Management Employees’ Retirement Plan immediately prior to the Change in Control. 

 

	B.	Definition of Change in Control. 

(1) “Change in Control” shall mean the happening of any of the following events with respect to a Grandfathered Benefit
Equalization Retirement Allowance and Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance: 
 (a) The
acquisition by any individual, entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and amended (the “Exchange Act”)) (a “Person”) of beneficial ownership (within the
meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) of 20% or more of either (i) the then outstanding shares of common stock of Altria Group, Inc. (the “Outstanding Company Common Stock”) or (ii) the combined voting power
of the then outstanding voting securities of Altria Group, Inc. entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the “Outstanding Company Voting Securities”); provided, however, that the following acquisitions shall not constitute
a Change in Control: (i) any acquisition directly from Altria Group, Inc., (ii) any acquisition by Altria Group, Inc., (iii) any acquisition by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by Altria Group, Inc.
or any corporation controlled by Altria Group, Inc. or (iv) any acquisition by any corporation pursuant to a transaction described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (3) of this Section B; or 

(b) Individuals who, as of the date hereof, constitute the Board (the “Incumbent Board”) cease for any reason to
constitute at least a majority of the Board; provided, however, that any individual becoming a director subsequent to the date hereof whose election, or nomination for election by Altria Group, Inc.’s shareholders, was approved by a vote of at
least a majority of the directors then comprising the Incumbent Board shall be considered as though such individual were a member of the Incumbent Board, but excluding, for this purpose, any such individual whose initial assumption of office occurs
as a result of an actual or threatened election contest with respect to the election or removal of directors or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a Person other than the Board; or 

(c) Approval by the shareholders of Altria Group, Inc. of a reorganization, merger, share exchange or consolidation (a
“Business Combination”), in each case, unless, following such Business Combination, (i) all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company

  
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Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such Business Combination beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than 80% of, respectively, the then
outstanding shares of common stock and the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, as the case may be, of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination
(including, without limitation, a corporation which as a result of such transaction owns Altria Group, Inc. through one or more subsidiaries) in substantially the same proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination of
the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be, (ii) no Person (excluding any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of Altria Group, Inc. or such corporation resulting from such Business
Combination) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 20% or more of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination or the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting
securities of such corporation except to the extent that such ownership existed prior to the Business Combination and (iii) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination
were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement, or of the action of the Board, providing for such Business Combination; or 

(d) Approval by the shareholders of Altria Group, Inc. of (i) a complete liquidation or dissolution of Altria Group,
Inc. or (ii) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of Altria Group, Inc., other than to a corporation, with respect to which following such sale or other disposition, (A) more than 80% of, respectively,
the then outstanding shares of common stock of such corporation and the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors is then beneficially owned, directly
or indirectly, by all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such sale or other
disposition in substantially the same proportion as their ownership, immediately prior to such sale or other disposition, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be, (B) less than 20%
of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock of such corporation and the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors is then
beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any Person (excluding any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of Altria Group, Inc. or such corporation), except to the extent that such Person owned 20% or more of the Outstanding Company Common
Stock or Outstanding Company Voting Securities prior to the sale or disposition and (C) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors of such corporation were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the
initial agreement, or of the action of the Board, providing for such sale or other disposition of assets of Altria Group, Inc. or were elected, appointed or nominated by the Board. 

(2) “Change in Control” shall mean the happening of any of the events specified in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-
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Equalization Retirement Allowance, Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance and that portion of a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is not a Grandfathered Benefit Equalization
Retirement Allowance and that portion of a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is not a Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance. For purposes of determining if a Change in Control has occurred, the Change in Control
event must relate to a corporation identified in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A- 3(i)(5)(ii), provided, however, that (i) the spin-off of the shares of Philip Morris International Inc. to the shareholders of Altria Group, Inc. shall
not be considered to be a Change in Control and (ii) any change in the Incumbent Board coincident with such spin-off shall not be considered to be a Change in Control. 

  
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 EXHIBIT A 
 ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS USED TO CALCULATE A SINGLE SUM PAYMENT 
 Applicable Interest Rate: Prior to the amendments to the Code by the Pension Protection Act of 2006, P.L. 109-280, the Applicable Interest Rate meant the average of the monthly rate of
interest specified in Section 417(e)(3)(A)(ii)(II) of the Code, published for 24 months preceding the Employee’s Date of Retirement, less
 1/2 of 1%. 

After the amendment of the Code by the Pension Protection Act of 2006, the Applicable Interest Rates are three tiered segment rates where
rate 1 applies to benefits paid in the first five years, rate 2 applies to benefits paid for the next 15 years, and rate 3 applies to benefits paid thereafter. The IRS will publish the segment rates monthly similar to the way the 30-year Treasury
rates are published. 
 Applicable Mortality Assumption: Prior to the amendments to the Code by the Pension
Protection Act of 2006, the Applicable Mortality Table meant the mortality table specified in Section 417(e)(3)(A)(ii)(I) of the Code and Treasury Regulations Section 1.417(e)-1(c)(2) (currently the table prescribed in Revenue Ruling
2001-62). 
 The Pension Protection Act of 2006 allows Plan sponsors to transition to the new 417(e)(3) interest rates over the
next five years based on the following schedule: 
 2008: 20% of segment rates and 80% of 30-year Treasury rates

 2009: 40% of segment rates and 60% of 30-year Treasury rates 

2010: 60% of segment rates and 40% of 30-year Treasury rates 

2011: 80% of segment rates and 20% of 30-year Treasury rates 

2012: 100% of segment rates 
 Using the 24-month averaging method as defined by the Plan, lump sums calculated during 2008 and 2009 will be based on an interest rate that incorporates some months using the pure 30-year treasury rate
and the remaining months using the segment rates (to reflect the phase-in described above). For example, the February 2008 lump sum interest rate would be calculated using 23 months of the 30-year treasury rate and one month of the segment rates
with phase-in. 
 Note that the 24-month averaging less  1/2 of 1% methodology is to be applied to all three tiers of the
segment rates. The lump sum factors are then determined using the three tiered approach required by the Pension Protection Act of 2006. 
 ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS USED TO CALCULATE A SINGLE SUM PAYMENT 
 UNDER UST
PLANS 
 Mortality Table prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury under Section 417(e)(3)(A)(ii)(I) of the Code, as
in effect on the date the Participant terminates employment, and the annual rate of interest on 30-year Treasury Securities as specified by the Commissioner 

  
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of Internal Revenue for the second full month preceding the month in which the Participant Separates from Service. 

  
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 APPENDIX 1 

TP EMPLOYEES 
  

			
	(1)	  	Martin Barrington
		
	(2)	  	Timothy Beane
		
	(3)	  	Kevin P. Benner
		
	(4)	  	David R. Beran
		
	(5)	  	Nancy Brennan
		
	(6)	  	Peter C. Faust
		
	(7)	  	Christopher L. Irving
		
	(8)	  	Craig A. Johnson
		
	(9)	  	Denise Keane
		
	(10)	  	Douglas B. Levene
		
	(11)	  	Henry P. Long, Jr.
		
	(12)	  	John J. Mulligan
		
	(13)	  	John R. Nelson, Jr.
		
	(14)	  	Peter P. Paoli
		
	(15)	  	Daniel W. Riegel
		
	(16)	  	Nancy S. Rights
		
	(17)	  	Alex T. Russo
		
	(18)	  	Brain Schuyler
		
	(19)	  	Steven P. Seagriff
		
	(20)	  	John M. Spera
		
	(21)	  	Michael E. Syzmanczyk
		
	(22)	  	Linda Warren
		
	(23)	  	Ross M. Webster
		
	(24)	  	Howard A. Wilard

  
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 APPENDIX 2 

BENEFIT FOR MICHAEL SZYMANCZYK 
 The Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance of Mr. Syzmanczyk shall be calculated as described in ARTICLE IIC(1) of the Plan, as supplemented by the letter agreement set forth below, provided,
however, that in no event shall the present value of defined benefits that can be paid at any age to him exceed thirty million dollars ($30,000,000). 
 Should Mr. Szymanczyk continue employment until age 55, or, if prior to age 55, suffer a Termination Event as defined in his 2002 Letter Agreement, he would be credited with an additional 5 years of
service for all purposes, and receive his retirement benefit without any actuarial reduction for early commencement. To the extent he continues employment beyond age 55, he will also be credited with 2 years of service for each year of service until
age 60. 
 Further, should he die or become disabled prior to attaining age 55, he or his spouse would be entitled to receive a pension benefit
enhancement based on adding 5 years to his actual service as of the date of death or disability. In addition, (1) if he becomes disabled prior to age 55, he will be entitled to receive an immediate Philip Morris and Kraft Foods 100% Joint and
Survivor pension benefit without reduction for early commencement; (2) if he dies prior to age 55, his spouse will be entitled to receive, commencing as of the date he would have attained age 55, the survivor portion of a Philip Morris and
Kraft Foods 100% Joint and Survivor pension benefit without reduction for early commencement; and (3) should he die on or after attaining age 55 and prior to retirement, his spouse would be entitled to receive the survivor portion of an
immediate Philip Morris and Kraft Foods 100% Joint and Survivor pension benefit without reduction for early commencement. 
 The Supplemental
Retirement Allowance shall be reduced as prescribed pursuant to Article II, Section C of the Supplemental Management Employees’ Retirement Plan, by the Actuarial Equivalent value of any benefits payable to him under other retirement benefits to
which the Company contributed for like service. 
  

					
		 	SIGNED BY GEOFFREY C. BIBLE	 	
			
		 	CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER	 	

 DATED: JULY 26, 2002 

  
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 APPENDIX 3 

TAX ASSUMPTIONS 
 Federal income tax rate: The highest marginal Federal income tax rate as adjusted for the Federal deduction of state and local taxes and the phase out of Federal deductions under current law (or as
adjusted under any subsequently enacted similar provisions of the Internal Revenue Code). 
 State income tax rate:
Except with respect to additional benefits attributable to the provisions of a Grandfathered Employee’s Designation of Participation, the highest adjusted marginal state income tax rate based on a Grandfathered Employee’s state of
residence on the date of the Grandfathered Employee’s Separation from Service. With respect to those additional benefits that are attributable to the provisions of a Grandfathered Employee’s Designation of Participation, the highest
marginal state income tax rate based on the state in which the Grandfathered Employee is or was employed by a Participating Company on the date of his Separation from Service. 
 Local income tax rate: Except with respect to additional benefits attributable to the provisions of a Grandfathered Employee’s Designation of Participation, the highest adjusted
marginal local income tax rate (taking into account the Grandfathered Employee’s resident or nonresident status) based on the Grandfathered Employee’s locality of residence on the date of the Grandfathered Employee’s Separation from
Service. With respect to those additional benefits that are attributable to the provisions of a Grandfathered Employee’s Designation of Participation, the highest marginal state income tax rate (taking into account the Grandfathered
Employee’s resident or nonresident status) based on the locality in which the Grandfathered Employee is or was employed by a Participating Company on the date of his Separation from Service. 

Exception: In the case of a Grandfathered Employee who is an expatriate actively employed by a Participating Company and subject
to United States taxation for all purposes, income taxes shall generally be computed as follows: Expatriate taxes will be calculated assuming the highest marginal Federal income tax rate as adjusted for the Federal deduction of state and local taxes
and the phase-out of Federal deductions under current law (or as adjusted under any subsequently enacted similar provisions of the Code). The applicable state and local tax rates will be adjusted to reflect a Grandfathered Employee’s expatriate
status to the extent appropriate. 
 Capital gains: The ordinary income or capital gains character of items of trust
investment income or deemed investment income shall be taken into account as relevant. 
 The above principles shall generally
be applied in determining tax-rate assumptions for the relevant purpose, but the Administrator shall have the authority in its discretion to alter the assumptions made as deemed appropriate to take into account particular facts and circumstances.

  
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 APPENDIX 4 

CALCULATION OF BENEFIT 
 EXECUTIVE TRUST ARRANGEMENT PARTICIPANT 
 1. Calculate Pension benefit payable in form of
single life annuity as of Normal Retirement Date, based on benefit earned to: 
  

	 	•	 	 December 31, 2004 (Grandfathered Benefit) 

  

	 	•	 	 December 31, 2007 (End of Target Payment Program) 

 

	 	•	 	 Date of retirement/termination 

 2. As of each of the above three dates allocate benefits between the qualified plan and the BEP 
 a. Determine Qualified Plan Benefit payable at Normal Retirement Date 
 b.
Determine entire (Unlimited) benefit payable at Normal Retirement Date 
 c. Determine portion payable from BEP (Subtract 2a from
2b) 
 d. Apply early retirement factor 
  

	 	•	 	 For terminations prior to age 55, use age 55 factor (.40) 

 

	 	•	 	 For terminations on or after age 55, use expected retirement age 

 

	 	•	 	 Use early retirement factor for Grandfathered Benefit based on age on 12/31/04 

e. Determine BEP benefit at Benefit Commencement Date 
  

	 	•	 	 For terminations prior to age 55, assume age 55 

  

	 	•	 	 For terminations on or after age 55, use expected retirement age 

 3. Calculate “top-up” payment for Grandfathered Benefits from funding account 
 a. Determine applicable early retirement factor (using employee’s age on 12/31/04 and assuming, in the case of an employee under age 55 at termination, that he/she will elect to receive benefits at
age 55 
 b. Calculate Grandfathered Benefit with early retirement factor growth (each Item 1 times 3a). 

c. Calculate lump sum value payable at age 55 on a before-tax and after-tax basis 

d. Ascertain Grandfathered Deferred Profit-Sharing BEP balance (deemed to be distributed at termination of employment) 

 

	 	•	 	 Use balance as of most recent year end 

  

	 	•	 	 Add any contributions (Company and Company-Match), plus earnings 

 

	 	•	 	 Ascertain after-tax value 

 e. Calculate “top-up” payment for Grandfathered Benefit from funding account 
 i. Ascertain estimated funding account balance at termination of employment (after-tax) 
  

  
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 ii. Subtract funding account assets used to satisfy Grandfathered DPS BEP (Item 3d)

 iii. Determine if any “top-up” payment needed to satisfy any remaining Grandfathered DPS BEP liability (after-tax)

 iv. Balance of any funding account assets to be used for future Grandfathered Pension BEP (assumed to be at age 55)

 v. Balance as of date of termination and projected to age 55 

vi. Determined on pre-tax and after-tax basis 
  

	 	•	 	 Ascertain pre-tax and after-tax lump sum value of Grandfathered Pension BEP at age 55 

 

	 	•	 	 Subtract 3(e)(iv) (after-tax) from 3c (after-tax) 

 4. Ascertain Post 2004 BEP Pension and DPS Plan Benefit 
 i. As of
December 31, 2004 ($0) 
 ii. As of date of termination 

iii. Compute as annuity and pre-tax and after-tax lump sum values 

a. Estimate Post 2004 DPS BEP Account as of date of termination 
 i. Total hypothetical BEP DPS contributions made via target payments in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and add earnings 
 ii. Convert to after-tax amount 
 iii. Add post-target payment DPS BEP
contributions and convert to after-tax amount 
 iv. Total 4(a)(ii) and 4(a)(iii) to determine Post 2004 DPS BEP Account

 b. Determine total Post 2004 BEP Pension and DPS Plan Benefit as of date of termination for “top-up” payment

 i. Sum of 4(ii) and 4(a)(iv) equals 4(b) 
 ii. Ascertain estimated target payment account balance (after-tax) 
 iii. Subtract
4(b)(ii) from 4(b)(i) to ascertain estimated “top-up” payment 

  
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 APPENDIX 5 

BENEFITS TO UST SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT PLAN PARTICIPANTS 
 Definitions 
 This Appendix 5 sets forth the benefit earned
by each UST Supplemental Retirement Plan Participant to December 31, 2008, under the terms of the UST Plans. Each UST Supplemental Retirement Plan Participant entered into a Letter Agreement setting forth the amount of the benefit payable to
him and the form of such payment. Payment of this benefit will be made in a single lump sum payment on the earlier of: (1) date of Separation from Service if separation occurs within two years of January 6, 2009; or
(2) December 31, 2010. 
 The Payment Date in the case of a Specified Employee shall be the later of (i) the
applicable date specified in (1) or (2) above or (ii) the first day of the seventh calendar month following the date that such Specified Employee Separates from Service. 

 

													
	 Name
	  	Lump Sum as of 12/31/2008
(increased with interest to the actual payment date)	 
	  	UST Inc. Benefit
Restoration
Plan	 	  	UST Inc. Officers’
Supplemental Retirement Plan	 	  	UST Inc. 
Excess
Retirement Benefit Plan	 
	 Baseler
	  	$	1,403,687	  	  	$	2,171,916	  	  	$	—  	  
	 Dillard III
	  	$	179,199	  	  	$	1,755,765	  	  	$	—  	  
	 Freudenthal
	  	$	85,387	  	  	$	663,430	  	  	$	—  	  
	 Gore
	  	$	6,377	  	  	$	1,139,094	  	  	$	—  	  
	 Newlands
	  	$	248,206	  	  	$	1,215,643	  	  	$	—  	  
	 Rowland
	  	$	49,530	  	  	$	—  	  	  	$	—  	  
	 Strickland
	  	$	44,420	  	  	$	915,448	  	  	$	—  	  
	 Walker
	  	$	299,579	  	  	$	898,252	  	  	$	—  	  
	 Yaffa
	  	$	695,849	  	  	$	739,644	  	  	$	—  	  

  
 46Grantor Trust Agreement

 Exhibit 10.32 
 GRANTOR TRUST AGREEMENT 
 BY AND BETWEEN 

ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES INC., 
 AS GRANTOR 
 AND 

WELLS FARGO BANK, 
 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE 

 GRANTOR TRUST AGREEMENT 

This Grantor Trust Agreement (the “Trust Agreement”) is made this
23rd day of February, 2011 by and between ALTRIA CLIENT
SERVICES INC. (“the Company”) and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (“the Trustee”). 

Recitals 
 WHEREAS, the Company is a member of a controlled group of companies of which Altria Group, Inc. is the common parent corporation (the “Controlled Group”); and 

WHEREAS, the Company is the sponsor of the nonqualified deferred compensation plans and agreements (the “Plans”) attached
hereto as Attachment A, as the same may be amended from time to time, that are maintained for the benefit of certain employees and former employees of companies which are (or were) members of the Controlled Group and the spouses and other
beneficiaries of deceased employees and former employees; and 
 WHEREAS, the Plans provide for the payment of benefits
upon a change in control of Altria Group, Inc. (the “Plans’ Change in Control”) as set forth in Attachment B of this Trust Agreement; and 
 WHEREAS, it is the intention of the Company to begin to make contributions to the Trust (in addition to the Initial Contribution as set forth in Section 1(d)) on the earlier of (i) a
Plans’ Change in Control, or (ii) a Funding Change in Control (as defined herein) (the terms “Plans’ Change in Control” and “Funding Change in Control” shall collectively be referred to as a “Change in
Control”), to provide itself with a source of funds to assist the members of the Controlled Group in satisfying their liability for (A) the accumulated benefit obligation under the Plans accrued as of the Change in Control, (B) any
additional accumulated benefit obligations incurred no less frequently than annually thereafter (collectively, the “Liabilities”) until all such Liabilities have been discharged in full to Participants in accordance with the terms of the
Plans; and 
 WHEREAS, the Company is desirous of establishing a trust (the “Trust”) for the benefit of certain
current and future participants in the Plans whose benefit as of the Change in Control has not been fully discharged, to wit: (i) current employees of a member of the Controlled Group who have accrued a benefit under the Plans as of the date of
the execution of this Trust Agreement, (ii) any other individual who becomes an employee of a member of the Controlled Group subsequent to the date of the execution of this Trust Agreement who accrues a benefit under the Plans as of a Change in
Control, and (iii) the spouses and other beneficiaries of the individuals specified in (i) and (ii) (collectively, the “Participants”); and 
 WHEREAS, the Company has incurred Liabilities with respect to benefits earned by the individuals specified in (i) of the preceding paragraph and which are payable in accordance with the terms
of the Plans and expects to incur additional Liabilities with respect to the individuals 

  
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specified in (ii) of the preceding paragraph and which will become payable in accordance with the terms of such Plans; and 

WHEREAS, the Company hereby establishes a Trust (the “Trust”) for the benefit of Participants and shall contribute to the
Trust assets that shall be held therein, subject to the claims of the creditors of any member of the Controlled Group in the event of Insolvency, as herein defined, until paid to Participants in such manner and at such times as specified in the
Plans and in this Trust Agreement; and 
 WHEREAS, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, has agreed to serve as Trustee
of the Trust; and 
 WHEREAS, the Company and the Trustee have entered into a separate Trust Administration Services
Agreement (the “ASA”) with respect to the provision of Wells Fargo Services (as defined in the ASA); and 

WHEREAS, it is the intention of the parties that this Trust shall constitute an unfunded arrangement and shall not affect the
status of the Plans as excess benefit plans (as defined in Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)) or an unfunded plan maintained for the purpose of providing deferred compensation for a select
group of management or highly compensated employees for purposes of Title I of ERISA. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, the parties do hereby establish
the Trust and agree that the Trust shall be comprised, held and disposed of as follows: 
  

	Section 1.	Establishment of The Trust 

  

	(a)	The Trust is intended to be a grantor trust, of which the Company is the Grantor, within the meaning of subpart E, part I, subchapter J, chapter 1, subtitle A of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and shall be construed accordingly. 

  

	(b)	The Company shall be considered the Grantor for the purposes of the Trust. 

 

	(c)	The Trust hereby established is revocable by the Company. It shall become irrevocable upon a Change in Control. 

 

	(d)	The Company hereby deposits with the Trustee in the Trust one-hundred dollars and zero cents ($100.00) (the “Initial Contribution”), which shall become the
principal of the Trust to be held, administered and disposed of by the Trustee as provided in this Trust Agreement. 

  

	(e)	 The principal of the Trust, and any earnings thereon (the “Fund”) shall be held separate and apart from other funds of the Company and shall
be used exclusively for the uses and purposes of Participants and general creditors as herein set forth. Participants shall have no preferred claim on, or any beneficial ownership interest in, any assets of the Trust. Any rights created under the
Plans and this Trust Agreement shall be unsecured contractual rights of Participants against the Company. Any assets held by the Trust will be subject to the 

  
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claims of the general creditors of the Controlled Group under federal and state law in the event any member of the Controlled Group becomes Insolvent, as defined in Section 3(a) herein.

  

	(f)	In addition to the Initial Contribution, the Company, in its sole discretion, may, at any time, or from time to time prior to a Change in Control, make additional
deposits of cash, letter of credit, or other property acceptable to the Trustee in the Trust to augment the Fund to be held, administered and disposed of by the Trustee as provided in this Trust Agreement. Prior to a Change in Control, neither the
Trustee nor any Participant shall have any right to compel additional deposits. 

  

	(g)	The Company (or a third-party recordkeeper retained by the Company) shall keep accurate books and records with respect to the interest of each Participant in the Plans
and shall provide copies of such books and records to the Trustee at any time as the Trustee shall request. 

  

	(h)	Upon the earlier of a Plans’ Change in Control or a Funding Change in Control, the Company shall, as soon as possible, but in no event later than five
(5) days following the occurrence of either a Plans’ Change in Control or a Funding Change in Control, make an irrevocable contribution to the Trust in an amount that is sufficient (taking into account the Trust assets, if any, resulting
from prior contributions) to fund the Trust in an amount equal to no less than 100% of the Liabilities as of the date on which such Change in Control occurred (the “Required Funding”). The Company shall also fund an Expense Reserve for the
Trustee, which shall be equal to the lesser of: 1) the estimated trustee and record-keeper expenses and fees for the expected duration of the Trust, or 2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). In addition, with respect to each calendar year of
the Company following the year of the Change in Control, the Company shall make an additional irrevocable contribution to the Trust in an amount that is sufficient (taking into account the remaining Trust assets, if any, resulting from prior
contributions and payments in discharge of Liabilities) to fund the Trust in an amount equal to no less than 100% of the Liabilities accrued each year following the year of the Change in Control (including any additional Liabilities accruing during
the remainder of the year in which the Change in Control occurred) (the “Additional Required Funding”), plus an additional contribution to fund an Expense Reserve for one additional year, such contribution to be made no later than thirty
(30) days following the end of such calendar year following the date of the year of the Change in Control. 

  

	Section 2.	Payments to Participants 

  

	(a)	Prior to the Change in Control, distributions from the Trust shall be made by the Trustee to Participants only upon the direction of the Company and to the extent not
paid by or on behalf of the Company or other member of the Controlled Group. Prior to a Change in Control, the entitlement of a Participant to benefits under the Plans shall be determined by the Administrator (as defined in the Plans) and any claim
for such benefits shall be considered and reviewed under the procedures set out in the Plans. 

  
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	(b)	Prior to the Change in Control: 

  

	 	(1)	the Company may make payment of benefits directly to some or all of the Participants in whole or in part as they become due under the terms of the Plans and the Company
shall notify the Trustee of any such payments; and 

  

	 	(2)	the Company may direct the Trustee in writing (A) to reimburse the Company from the Trust assets for the payments made pursuant to subsection (1) and
(B) to reduce the benefit payable to each Participant for amounts paid directly to the Participant by or on behalf of the Company or other member of the Controlled Group. 

The Trustee shall reimburse the Company or any other member of the Controlled Group for such payments promptly after receipt by the
Trustee of satisfactory evidence that the Company has made the payments in satisfaction of the benefits due under the Plans. No such reimbursement shall be allowed after a Change in Control that would result in Trust assets equaling less than the
sum of (A) the Required Funding, plus any Additional Required Funding, less payments previously made to discharge Liabilities and (B) the Expense Reserve. 
 The Trustee shall notify the Company if the Fund is insufficient. Nothing in this Agreement shall relieve the Company of its obligation to pay benefits due under the Plans except to the extent such
liabilities are met by application of assets of the Trust. 
  

	(c)	(1) If the Company has directed the Trustee to make benefit payments under the Plans from the Trust prior to a Change in Control, the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee a schedule of the sum of the estimated Liabilities (on a per Participant basis), plus the estimated federal (including FICA) and state tax withholdings, which are due under the Plans on an annual basis beginning in the calendar year
following the execution of this Trust Agreement. At no time prior to the Change in Control shall the Company share any Personal Information (as defined in Section 16) regarding any Participant with the Trustee unless the Company has directed
the Trustee to make payment to such Participant from the Trust pursuant to Section 2(a). 

 (2) As soon as
practicable before a Change in Control, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a schedule of the sum of the Liabilities (stated on a per Participant basis) due under the Plans as of the Change in Control. After the Change in Control, the Trustee
shall pay benefits under the Plans in accordance with such schedule (to the extent not paid by the Company or any other member of the Controlled Group) and in accordance with the terms of the Plans, including at the time and form specified in the
Plans. 
 (3) After the Change in Control, the Administrator shall continue to make the determination of benefits due
Participants and shall periodically (but not less frequently than annually) provide the Trustee with an updated schedule of the Liabilities then due, plus the federal (including FICA) and state tax withholdings, of benefits due; provided however, a
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as to the amount or form of his or her benefits due under the Plans. In making any determination required or permitted to be made by the Trustee under this Section, the Trustee shall, in each
such case, reach its own independent determination, in its absolute and sole discretion, as to the Participant’s entitlement to a payment under the Plans. In making its determination, the Trustee may consult with and make such inquiries of such
persons, including the Participant, the Company, any other member of the Controlled Group, legal counsel, actuaries or other persons, as the Trustee may reasonably deem necessary. Any reasonable costs incurred by the Trustee in arriving at its
determination shall be reimbursed by the Company and, to the extent not paid by the Company within a reasonable time, shall be charged to the Trust. The Company waives any right to contest any amount paid over by the Trustee hereunder pursuant to a
good faith determination made by the Trustee notwithstanding any claim by or on behalf of the Company (absent a manifest abuse of discretion by the Trustee) that such payments should not be made. 

 

	(d)	The Trustee agrees that it will not itself institute any action at law or at equity, whether in the nature of an accounting, interpleader action, request for a
declaratory judgment or otherwise, requesting a court or administrative or quasi-judicial body to make the determination required to be made by the Trustee under this Section 2 in the place and stead of the Trustee. The Trustee may (and, if
necessary or appropriate, shall) institute an action to collect a contribution due the Trust following a Change in Control, or in the event that the Trust should ever experience a short-fall in the amount of assets necessary to make payments
pursuant to the terms of the Plans and this Trust Agreement. 

  

	Section 3.	Trustee Responsibility Regarding Payments To Participants When The Company Is Insolvent 

 

	(a)	The Trustee shall cease payment of benefits to Participants if any member of the Controlled Group is Insolvent. A member of the Controlled Group shall be considered
“Insolvent” for purposes of this Trust Agreement if (i) any such member is unable to pay its debts as they become due, or (ii) any such member is subject to a pending proceeding as a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy
Code. 

  

	(b)	At all times during the continuance of this Trust, the Fund shall be subject to claims of general creditors of the Controlled Group under federal and state law as set
forth below. 

  

	 	(1)	The Chief Financial Officer of Altria Group, Inc. shall have the duty to inform the Trustee in writing that a member of the Controlled Group is Insolvent. If a person
claiming to be a creditor of a member of the Controlled Group alleges in writing to the Trustee that any such member has become Insolvent, the Trustee shall determine whether the member of the Controlled Group is Insolvent and, pending such
determination, the Trustee shall discontinue payment of benefits from the Trust. 

  

	 	(2)	 Unless the Trustee has actual knowledge that a member of the Controlled Group is Insolvent, or has received notice from the Chief Financial Officer of
Altria Group, Inc. or a person claiming to be a creditor alleging that a 

  
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member of the Controlled Group is Insolvent, the Trustee shall have no duty to inquire whether any member of the Controlled Group is Insolvent. The Trustee may in all events rely on such evidence
concerning the solvency of each member of the Controlled Group as may be furnished to the Trustee and that provides the Trustee with a reasonable basis for making a determination concerning the solvency of each member of the Controlled Group.

  

	 	(3)	If at any time the Trustee has determined that a member of the Controlled Group is Insolvent, the Trustee shall discontinue payments from the Trust and shall hold the
assets of the Trust for the benefit of the Controlled Group’s general creditors. Nothing in this Trust Agreement shall in any way diminish any rights of Participants to pursue their rights as general creditors of a member of the Controlled
Group with respect to benefits due under the Plans or otherwise. 

  

	 	(4)	The Trustee shall resume the payment of benefits to Participants in accordance with Section 2 of this Trust Agreement only after the Trustee has determined that no
member of the Controlled Group is Insolvent (or is no longer Insolvent). 

  

	(c)	Provided that there are sufficient assets, if the Trustee discontinues the payment of benefits from the Trust pursuant to Sections 3(a) and 3(b) hereof and subsequently
resumes such payments, the first payment following such discontinuance shall include the aggregate amount of all payments due to Participants under the terms of the Plans for the period of such discontinuance, less the aggregate amount of any
payments made to Participants by the Company in lieu of the payments provided for hereunder during any such period of discontinuance. 

  

	Section 4.	Payments When a Short-Fall of The Trust Assets Occurs 

  

	(a)	If there are not sufficient assets for the payment of current and expected future benefits pursuant to Section 2 or Section 3(c) hereof and the Company does
not otherwise make such payments within a reasonable time after demand from the Trustee, the Trustee shall allocate the Trust assets among the Participants pro-rata with respect to the total present value of benefits expected for each Participant,
and payments to each Participant shall be made from the Trust to the extent of the assets allocated to each Participant. 

  

	(b)	Upon receipt of a contribution from the Company necessary to make up for a short-fall in the payments due, the Trustee shall resume payments to all the Participants
under the Plans. Following the Change in Control, the Trustee shall have the right and duty to compel a contribution to the Trust from the Company to make up for any short-fall. 

 

	Section 5.	Payments to the Company 

  
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	(a)	Except as provided in Section 2(b), Section 3, Section 5(b), and Section 8(a) hereof, the Company shall have no right or power to direct the Trustee
to return to the Company or to divert to others any of the Trust assets before all Liabilities to Participants have been discharged in full pursuant to the terms of the Plans. 

 

	(b)	In the event that the Company, prior to the Change in Control, or the Trustee in its sole and absolute discretion, after the Change in Control, determines that the
Trust assets exceed one-hundred twenty percent (120%) of the current and anticipated Liabilities that are to be paid under the Plans plus the necessary Expense Reserve for the year, the Trustee, at the written direction of the Company, prior to
the Change in Control, or the Trustee in its sole and absolute discretion, after the Change in Control, shall distribute to the Company such excess portion of Trust assets. 

 

	Section 6.	Investment Authority 

  

	(a)	Prior to the Change in Control, the Company shall have the right, subject to this Section, to direct the Trustee with respect to investments. 

 

	 	(1)	The Company may direct the Trustee to segregate all or a portion of the Fund in a separate investment account or accounts and may appoint one or more investment
managers and/or an investment committee (“Investment Delegate”) designated by the Company to direct the investment and reinvestment of each such investment account or accounts. In such event, the Company shall notify the Trustee of the
appointment of each such Investment Delegate. No investment manager who is an Investment Delegate shall be related, directly or indirectly, to the Company, but members of an investment committee that is an Investment Delegate may be employees or
directors of the Company or of any other member of the Controlled Group. 

  

	 	(2)	Prior to the Change in Control, the Trustee shall make every sale or investment with respect to such investment account as directed in writing by the Company or an
Investment Delegate; provided, however that the Company or the Investment Delegate may not instruct the Trustee to invest in securities (including stock and the rights to acquire stock or obligations) of Altria Group, Inc. or any of its affiliates
(including any member of the Controlled Group). It shall be the duty of the Trustee to act strictly in accordance with each direction. The Trustee shall be under no duty to question any such direction of the Company or any Investment Delegate, to
review any securities or other property held in such investment account or accounts acquired by it pursuant to such directions or to make any recommendations to the Company or an Investment Delegate with respect to such securities or other property.

  

	 	(3)	 Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee, without obtaining prior approval or direction from the Company or any Investment Delegate, but subject to
contrary direction from the Company or an Investment Delegate, shall invest cash balances held by it from time to time in short-term cash equivalents including, but not 

  
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limited to, through the medium of any short-term common, collective or commingled trust fund established and maintained by the Trustee subject to the instrument establishing such trust fund, U.S.
Treasury Bills, commercial paper (including such forms of commercial paper as may be available through the Trustee’s Trust Department), certificates of deposit (including certificates issued by the Trustee in its separate corporate capacity),
and similar type securities, with a maturity not to exceed one year; and, furthermore, sell such short-term investments as may be necessary to carry out the instructions of the Company or an Investment Delegate regarding more permanent type
investment and directed distributions. 

  

	 	(4)	The Trustee shall neither be liable nor responsible for any loss resulting to the Fund by reason of any sale or purchase of an investment as directed by the Company or
an Investment Delegate nor by reason of the failure to take any action with respect to any investment which was acquired pursuant to any such direction in the absence of further directions of the Company or such Investment Delegate.

  

	 	a.	Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Trustee shall be indemnified and saved harmless by the Company from and against any and all personal
liability to which the Trustee may be subjected by carrying out any directions of the Company or an Investment Delegate issued pursuant hereto or for failure to act in the absence of directions of the Company or an Investment Delegate, including all
expenses reasonably incurred in its defense in the event the Company fails to provide such defense; provided, however, the Trustee shall not be so indemnified if it participates knowingly in, or knowingly undertakes to conceal, an act or omission of
the Company or an Investment Delegate, having actual knowledge that such act or omission is a breach of a fiduciary duty; provided further, however, that the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowingly participated in or knowingly undertaken to
conceal an act or omission of the Company or an Investment Delegate with knowledge that such act or omission was a breach of fiduciary duty by merely complying with directions of the Company or an Investment Delegate or for failure to act in the
absence of directions of the Company or an Investment Delegate. The Trustee may rely upon any order, certificate, notice, direction or other documentary confirmation purporting to have been issued by the Company or an Investment Delegate which the
Trustee believes to be genuine and to have been issued by the Company or Investment Delegate. The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the termination of the appointment of any Investment Delegate until it receives written notice thereof
from the Company. 

  

	 	b.	 All rights associated with respect to any investment held by the Trust, including but not limited to, exercising or voting of proxies, in person or

  
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by general or limited proxy, shall be in accordance with and as directed in writing by the Company or its authorized representative. 

 

	(b)	Subsequent to the Change in Control, the Trustee shall have the exclusive power to invest and reinvest the Fund in its sole discretion in accordance with investment
guidelines issued by the Company from time to time and subject to its duties set forth in Section 10(a): 

  

	 	(1)	To invest and reinvest in any readily marketable common and preferred stocks, bonds, notes, debentures (including convertible stocks and similar securities but not
including any stock or security of the Trustee other than a de minimus amount held in a collective or mutual fund), certificates of deposit or demand or time deposits (including any such deposits with the Trustee), limited partnerships or
limited liability companies, private placements and shares of investment companies, and mutual funds, without being limited to the classes or property in which the Trustee is authorized to invest by any law or any rule of court of any state and
without regard to the proportion any such property may bear to the entire amount of the Fund. Without limitation, the Trustee may invest the Trust in any investment company (including any investment company or companies for which Wells Fargo Bank,
N.A. or an affiliated company acts as the investment advisor (“Special Investment Companies”)) or, any insurance contract or contracts issued by an insurance company or companies in each case as the Trustee may determine provided that the
Trustee may in its sole discretion keep such portion of the Trust in cash or cash balances for such reasonable periods as may from time to time be deemed advisable pending investment or in order to meet contemplated payments of benefits;

  

	 	(2)	To invest and reinvest all or any portion of the Fund collectively through the medium of any proprietary mutual fund that may be established and maintained by the
Trustee; 

  

	 	(3)	To commingle for investment purposes all or any portion of the Fund with assets of any other similar trust or trusts established by the Company with the Trustee for the
purpose of safeguarding deferred compensation or retirement income benefits of its employees and/or directors; 

  

	 	(4)	To retain any property at any time received by the Trustee; 

  

	 	(5)	To sell or exchange any property held by it at public or private sale, for cash or on credit, to grant and exercise options for the purchase or exchange thereof, to
exercise all conversion or subscription rights pertaining to any such property and to enter into any covenant or agreement to purchase any property in the future; 

 

	 	(6)	 To participate in any plan of reorganization, consolidation, merger, combination, liquidation or other similar plan relating to property held by it and
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oppose any such plan or any action thereunder or any contract, lease, mortgage, purchase, sale or other action by any person; 

 

	 	(7)	To deposit any property held by it with any protective, reorganization or similar committee, to delegate discretionary power thereto, and to pay part of the expenses
and compensation thereof for any assessments levied with respect to any such property to be deposited; 

  

	 	(8)	To extend the time of payment of any obligation held by it; 

  

	 	(9)	To hold uninvested any moneys received by it, without liability for interest thereon, but only in anticipation of payments due for investments, reinvestments, expenses
or disbursements; 

  

	 	(10)	To exercise all voting or other rights with respect to any property held by it and to grant proxies, discretionary or otherwise; 

 

	 	(11)	For the purposes of the Trust, to borrow money from others, to issue its promissory note or notes therefor, and to secure the repayment thereof by pledging any property
held by it; provided, however, that the Trustee shall not engage in securities lending with respect to any assets in the Fund; 

  

	 	(12)	To employ suitable contractors and counsel, who may be counsel to the Company or to the Trustee, and to pay their reasonable expenses and compensation from the Fund to
the extent not paid by the Company; 

  

	 	(13)	To register investments in its own name or in the name of a nominee; and to combine certificates representing securities with certificates of the same issue held by it
in other fiduciary capacities or to deposit or to arrange for the deposit of such securities with any depository, even though, when so deposited, such securities may be held in the name of the nominee of such depository with other securities
deposited therewith by other persons, or to deposit or to arrange for the deposit of any securities issued or guaranteed by the United States government, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, including securities evidenced by book entries rather
than by certificates, with the United States Department of the Treasury or a Federal Reserve Bank, even though, when so deposited, such securities may not be held separate from securities deposited therein by other persons; provided, however, that
no securities held in the Fund shall be deposited with the United States Department of the Treasury or a Federal Reserve Bank or other depository in the same account as any individual property of the Trustee, and provided, further, that the books
and records of the Trustee shall at all times show that all such securities are part of the Fund; 

  

	 	(14)	 To settle, compromise or submit to arbitration any claims, debts or damages due or owing to or from the Trust, respectively, to commence or defend
suits or legal proceedings to protect any interest of the Trust, and to represent the Trust in all 

  
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suits or legal proceedings in any court or before any other body or tribunal; provided, however, that the Trustee shall not be required to take any such action unless it shall have been
indemnified by the Company to its reasonable satisfaction against liability or expenses it might incur therefrom; 

  

	 	(15)	Subject to Section 7, to hold and retain policies of life insurance, annuity contracts, and other property of any kind which policies are contributed to the Trust
by the Company or any other member of the Controlled Group or are purchased by the Trustee; 

  

	 	(16)	To hold any other class of assets which may be contributed by the Company and that is deemed reasonable by the Trustee, unless expressly prohibited herein; and

  

	 	(17)	Generally, to do all acts, whether or not expressly authorized, that the Trustee may deem necessary or desirable for the protection of the Fund.

  

	(c)	Following the Change in Control, the Trustee shall have the sole and absolute discretion in the management of the Fund and shall have all the powers set forth under
Section 6(b). In investing the Trust assets, the Trustee shall consider: 

  

	 	(1)	the financial and other needs of the Plans; 

  

	 	(2)	the need for matching the Fund with the current and expected Liabilities; and 

 

	 	(3)	the duty of the Trustee to act solely in the best interests of the Participants. 

 

	(d)	The Trustee shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to delegate its investment responsibility to an investment manager (as defined in ERISA) who may be an
affiliate of the Trustee. In the event the Trustee shall exercise this right, the Trustee shall remain, at all times responsible for the acts of the investment manager appointed by the Trustee. 

 

	(e)	The Company shall have the right at any time, and from time to time in its sole discretion, to substitute assets (other than securities issued by the Trustee, Altria
Group, Inc. or its affiliates, including any member of the Controlled Group) of equal fair market value for any asset held by the Trust. This right is exercisable by the Company in a nonfiduciary capacity without the approval or consent of any
person in a fiduciary capacity; provided, however, that, following the Change in Control, no such substitution shall be permitted unless the Trustee determines that the fair market values of the substituted assets are substantially equal and that
such substitution is prudent. 

  

	Section 7.	Insurance Contracts 

  

	(a)	 To the extent that the Trustee is directed by the Company prior to the Change in Control to invest part or all of the Fund in the name of the Trust in
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amount thereof shall be specified by the Company. The Trustee shall be under no duty to make inquiry as to the propriety of the type or amount so specified. 

 

	(b)	Each insurance contract issued shall provide that the Trustee shall be the owner thereof with the power to exercise all rights, privileges, options and elections
granted by or permitted under such contract or under the rules of the insurer. The exercise by the Trustee of any incidents of ownership under any contract shall, prior to the Change in Control, be subject to the direction of the Company. After the
Change in Control, the Trustee shall have all such rights. 

  

	(c)	The Trustee shall have no power to name a beneficiary of the policy other than the Trust, to assign the policy (as distinct from conversion of the policy to a different
form) other than to a successor Trustee, or to loan to any person the proceeds of any borrowing against an insurance policy held in the Fund. 

  

	(d)	No insurer shall be deemed to be a party to the Trust and an insurer’s obligations shall be measured and determined solely by the terms of contracts and other
agreements executed by the insurer. 

  

	Section 8.	Disposition of Income 

  

	(a)	Prior to the Change in Control, all income received by the Trust, net of expenses and taxes, may be returned to the Company or accumulated and reinvested within the
Trust at the direction of the Company. 

  

	(b)	Following the Change in Control, all income received by the Trust, net of expenses and taxes payable by the Trust, shall be accumulated and reinvested within the Trust.

  

	Section 9.	Accounting by The Trustee 

 The
Trustee shall keep accurate and detailed records of all investments, receipts, disbursements, and all other transactions required to be made, including such specific records as shall be agreed upon in writing between the Company and the Trustee.
Within ninety (90) days following the close of each calendar year and within ninety (90) days after the removal or resignation of the Trustee, the Trustee shall deliver to the Company a written account of its administration of the Trust
during such year or during the period from the close of the last preceding year to the date of such removal or resignation setting forth all investments, receipts, disbursements and other transactions effected by it, including a description of all
securities and investments purchased and sold with the cost or net proceeds of such purchases or sales (accrued interest paid or receivable being shown separately), and showing all cash, securities and other property held in the Trust at the end of
such year or as of the date of such removal or resignation, as the case may be. The Company may approve such account by an instrument in writing delivered to the Trustee. In the absence of the Company’s filing with the Trustee objections to any
such account within one hundred-eighty (180) days after its receipt, the Company shall be deemed to have so approved such account. In such case, or upon the written approval by the Company of any such account, the Trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be discharged from all liability to the Company for its acts or failures to act described by such account. 

  
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The foregoing, however, shall not preclude the Trustee from having its accounting settled by a court of competent jurisdiction. The Trustee shall be entitled to hold and to commingle the assets
of the Trust in one Fund for investment purposes but at the direction of the Company prior to the Change in Control, the Trustee shall create one or more sub-accounts. 
  

	Section 10.	Responsibility of The Trustee and the Company 

  

	(a)	With respect to the duties of the Trustee under this Trust Agreement, the Trustee shall act with the care, skill, prudence and diligence under the circumstances then
prevailing that a prudent person acting in like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims; provided, however, that the Trustee shall incur no liability to any person for
any action taken pursuant to a direction, request or approval given by the Company which is contemplated by, and in conformity with, the terms of the Plans or this Trust and is given in writing by the Company. In the event of a dispute between the
Company and a party, the Trustee may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction to resolve the dispute, subject, however to Section 2(d) hereof. 

  

	(b)	With respect to the duties of the Trustee under this Trust Agreement, the Company hereby indemnifies the Trustee against losses, liabilities, claims, costs and expenses
in connection with the administration of the Trust, unless resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Trustee or a breach of its duties under Section 10(a). To the extent the Company fails to make any payment on account of
an indemnity provided in this paragraph 10(b) and (c), in a reasonably timely manner, the Trustee may obtain payment from the Trust. 

  

	(c)	If the Trustee undertakes or defends any litigation arising in connection with this Trust or to protect a Participant’s rights under the Plans, unless resulting
from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Trustee or a breach of its duties under Section 10(a), the Company agrees to indemnify the Trustee against the Trustee’s costs, reasonable expenses and liabilities (including, without
limitation, attorneys’ fees and expenses) relating thereto and to be primarily liable for such payments. If the Company does not pay such costs, expenses and liabilities in a reasonably timely manner, the Trustee may obtain payment from the
Trust. 

  

	(d)	If the Trustee receives notice of the assertion of any claim or of the commencement of any action or proceeding involving the Trustee, in any capacity, that arises in
any manner in connection with the performance of its duties under this Agreement (a “Claim”), the Trustee will give the Company prompt written notice thereof, although failure to do so will not relieve the Company from any liability
hereunder or otherwise unless such failure prejudices the Company’s rights. 

 The indemnification obligations
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	(e)	Prior to the Change in Control, the Trustee may consult with legal counsel (who may also be counsel for the Company) with respect to any of its duties or obligations
hereunder. Following the Change in Control, the Trustee shall select independent legal counsel and may consult with counsel or other persons with respect to its duties and with respect to the rights of Participants under the Plans.

  

	(f)	The Trustee may hire agents, accountants, actuaries, investment advisors, financial consultants or other professionals to assist it in performing any of its duties or
obligations hereunder and may rely on any determinations made by such agents and information provided to it by the Company. 

  

	(g)	The Trustee shall have, without exclusion, all powers conferred on the Trustee by applicable law, unless expressly provided otherwise herein. 

 

	(h)	Notwithstanding any powers granted to the Trustee pursuant to this Trust Agreement or to applicable law, the Trustee shall not have any power that could give this Trust
the objective of carrying on a business and dividing the gains therefrom, within the meaning of section 301.7701-2 of the Procedure and Administrative Regulations promulgated pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code. 

 

	Section 11.	Compensation and Expenses of The Trustee 

 The Trustee’s compensation shall be as agreed in writing from time to time by the Company and the Trustee. The Company shall pay all administrative expenses and the Trustee’s fees and shall
promptly reimburse the Trustee for any fees and expenses of its agents, the services of which have been approved by the Company. If not so paid within ninety (90) days of being invoiced, the fees and expenses shall be paid from the Trust.

  

	Section 12.	Resignation and Removal of The Trustee 

  

	(a)	Prior to the Change in Control, the Trustee may resign at any time by written notice to the Company, which shall be effective sixty (60) days after receipt of such
notice unless the Company and the Trustee agree otherwise. Following the Change in Control, the effective day of any resignation by the Trustee may only be after the date of the appointment of a successor Trustee. 

 

	(b)	The Trustee may be removed by the Company on sixty days (60) days notice or upon shorter notice accepted by the Trustee prior to the Change in Control. Subsequent
to the Change in Control, the Trustee may only be removed by the Company with the consent of a majority of the Participants. For these purposes and Section 14(e), a majority in number of Participants shall constitute a majority.

  

	(c)	If the Trustee resigns within two years after the Change in Control, the Company, or if the Company fails to act within a reasonable period of time following such
resignation, the Trustee, shall apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee which satisfies the requirements of Section 13 or for instructions. 

  
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	(d)	Upon resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee, all assets shall subsequently be transferred to the successor Trustee. The transfer
shall be completed within sixty (60) days after receipt of notice of resignation, removal or transfer, unless the Company extends the time limit. 

  

	(e)	If the Trustee resigns or is removed, a successor shall be appointed by the Company, in accordance with Section 13 hereof, by the effective date of resignation or
removal under paragraph(s) (a) or (b) of this section. If no such appointment has been made, the Trustee may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for appointment of a successor or for instructions. All expenses of the Trustee in
connection with the proceeding shall be allowed as administrative expenses of the Trust. 

  

	Section 13.	Appointment of Successor 

  

	(a)	If the Trustee resigns or is removed in accordance with Section 12 hereof, the Company may appoint, subject to Section 12, any third party national banking
association with a market capitalization exceeding $10 billion-Treasury input to replace the Trustee upon resignation or removal. The successor Trustee shall have all of the rights and powers of the former Trustee, including ownership rights in the
Trust. The former Trustee shall execute any instrument necessary or reasonably requested by the Company or the successor Trustee to evidence the transfer. 

  

	(b)	The successor Trustee need not examine the records and acts of any prior Trustee and may retain or dispose of existing Trust assets, subject to Section 9 and 10
hereof. The successor Trustee shall not be responsible for, and the Company shall indemnify and defend the successor Trustee from any claim or liability resulting from, any action or inaction of any prior Trustee or from any other past event, or any
condition existing at the time it becomes successor Trustee. 

  

	Section 14.	Amendment or Termination 

  

	(a)	This Trust Agreement may be amended by a written instrument executed by the Trustee and the Company, except as otherwise provided in this Section 14.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such amendment shall conflict with the terms of the Plans or shall make the Trust revocable after it has become irrevocable. 

 

	(b)	Prior to the Change in Control, the Trust and the Trust Agreement may be terminated at any time by the Company upon written notice to the Trustee.

  

	(c)	Following the Change in Control, the Trust shall not terminate until the date on which Participants have received all of the benefits due to them under the terms and
conditions of the Plans or the Trustee has purchased insurance policies providing for the payment of such benefits from an insurance company with the highest rating from AM Best. 

  
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	(d)	Following the Change in Control, upon written approval of all Participants entitled to payment of benefits pursuant to the terms of the Plans as determined by the
Trustee, the Company may terminate this Trust prior to the time all benefit payments under the Plans have been made. All assets in the Trust at termination after the satisfaction of all liabilities for benefits shall be returned to the Company.

  

	(e)	This Trust Agreement may not be amended by the Company following the Change in Control without the written consent of a majority of the Participants.

  

	Section 15.	Funding Change in Control; Duty to Advise Trustee of Change in Control 

 

	(a)	Definition of Funding Change in Control. A “Funding Change in Control” means the happening of any of the following events: 

 

	 	(1)	Both (A) consummation of the acquisition by any individual, entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act (a
“Person”)) of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) of 20% or more of either (1) the then outstanding shares of Common Stock (the “Outstanding Company Common Stock”) or
(2) the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the “Outstanding Company Voting Securities”) and (B) the election to the Board of at
least one individual determined in good faith by a majority of the then serving members of the Board to be a representative or associate of such Person; provided, however, that the following acquisitions shall not constitute a Change in Control:
(1) any acquisition directly from the Company or any corporation or other entity controlled by the Company (“the Affiliated Group”), (2) any acquisition by a member of the Affiliated Group, (3) any acquisition by any
employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by a member of the Affiliated Group or (4) any acquisition by any corporation pursuant to a transaction which complies with clauses (A), (B) and (C) of paragraph
(iii) of this Section 15(a); or 

  

	 	(2)	Individuals who, as of the effective date of the Plan, constitute the Board (the “Incumbent Board”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of
the Board; provided, however, that any individual becoming a director subsequent to such effective date whose election, or nomination for election by the shareholders of the Company, was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the directors
then comprising the Incumbent Board shall be considered as though such individual were a member of the Incumbent Board, but excluding, for this purpose, any such individual whose initial assumption of office occurs as a result of an actual or
threatened election contest with respect to the election or removal of directors or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a Person other than the Board; or 

  
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	 	(3)	Consummation of a reorganization, merger, share exchange or consolidation (a “Business Combination”), in each case, unless, following such Business
Combination, (A) all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such Business
Combination beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than 60% of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock and the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities entitled to vote generally in the election of
directors, as the case may be, of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination (including, without limitation, a corporation which as a result of such transaction owns such shares and voting power through one or more subsidiaries) in
substantially the same proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be, (B) no Person (excluding any employee
benefit plan (or related trust) of any member of the Affiliated Group or such corporation resulting from such Business Combination) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 20% or more of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock
of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination or the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation except to the extent that such ownership existed prior to the Business Combination and (C) at
least a majority of the members of the board of directors of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement or at the time of the action of the Board
providing for such Business Combination or were elected, appointed or nominated by the Board; or 

  

	 	(4)	 Consummation of a (A) complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company or (B) sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company, other than to a corporation, with respect to which following such sale or other disposition, (1) more than 60% of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock of such corporation and the combined voting
power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors is then beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the
beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such sale or other disposition in substantially the same proportion as their ownership, immediately prior to such
sale or other disposition, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be, (2) less than 20% of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock of such corporation and the
combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors is then beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any Person (excluding any employee benefit plan (or
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such corporation), except to the extent that such Person owned 20% or more of the outstanding Company Common Stock or Outstanding Company Voting Securities prior to the sale or disposition and
(3) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors of such corporation were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement or at the time of the action of the Board providing for such sale or
other disposition of assets of the Company or were elected, appointed or nominated by the Board. 

  

	(b)	The Board of Directors of Altria Group, Inc. shall have the specific duty to determine whether any Change in Control is expected to occur or has transpired and the
Chief Executive Officer of Altria Group, Inc. shall be required to give the Trustee notice of the determination of the Board of Directors of Altria Group, Inc. that a Change in Control is expected to occur or has transpired. The Trustee shall be
entitled to rely upon such notice, but if the Trustee receives notice of a Change in Control from another source, the Trustee shall make its own independent determination. 

 

	Section 16.	Confidentiality 

 Certain
information relating to the Trust, including certain Personal Information (as defined below), is “Confidential Information” pursuant to applicable federal and state laws and regulations relating to the privacy, confidentiality or security
of Confidential Information (collectively, “Privacy Laws”), and as such it shall be maintained in strict confidence and not Processed (as defined below), except as described in this section. 

The Trustee shall limit access to Confidential Information to its personnel who have a need to know the Confidential Information as a condition to the
Trustee’s performance of services for or on behalf of the Company. If it is necessary for the Trustee to disclose Confidential Information to a third party in order to perform the Trustee’s duties hereunder and the Company has authorized
the Trustee to do so in writing, the Trustee shall disclose only such Confidential Information as is necessary for such third party to perform its obligations to the Trustee and shall, before such disclosure is made, ensure that said third party
understands and agrees to the confidentiality obligations set forth herein and enter into a written agreement with said third party that imposes obligations on the third party that are substantially similar to those privacy, confidentiality and
information security obligations imposed on Wells Fargo under this Trust Agreement. 
 The Trustee and the Company shall maintain an appropriate
information security program and reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to (i) ensure the security and confidentiality of Confidential Information; (ii) protect against any anticipated threats or hazards to the
security and integrity of Confidential Information and (iii) protect against any actual or suspected unauthorized Processing of Confidential Information, and shall inform in writing the other party as soon as possible of any security breach or
other incident involving actual or suspected unauthorized Processing, disclosure of or access to Confidential Information (hereinafter “Information Security Incident”). The Trustee shall promptly take all necessary and advisable corrective
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any filings, communications, notices, press releases or reports issued by either party related to any Information Security Incident must be approved by the other party prior to any publication or
communication thereof. 
 Promptly upon the expiration or earlier termination of the Trust Agreement, or such earlier time as the Company
requests, the Trustee shall return to Company or its designee, or at Company’s request, securely destroy or render unreadable or undecipherable if return is not reasonably feasible or desirable to Company (which decision shall be based solely
on Company’s written statement), each and every original and copy in every media of all Confidential Information in the Trustee’s possession, custody or control in accordance with its record retention policies. The Trustee represents that
it shall ensure the confidentiality of the Confidential Information and that it shall not use or disclose any Confidential Information after termination of this Trust Agreement, subject to the exceptions specified in this Section 16.

 Confidential Information does not include information that is generally known or available to the public or that is not treated as
confidential by the disclosing party, provided, however, that this exception shall not apply to any publicly available information to the extent that the disclosure or sharing of the information by one or both parties is subject to any limitation,
restriction, consent, or notification requirement under any applicable federal or state Privacy Laws, and provided further, that this exception shall not apply to Personal Information. If the receiving party is required by law, according to the
advice of competent counsel, to disclose Confidential Information, the receiving party may do so without breaching this section, but shall first, if feasible and legally permissible, provide the disclosing party with prompt notice of such pending
disclosure so that the disclosing party may seek a protective order or other appropriate remedy or waive compliance with the provisions of this section. 
 The Trustee agrees that any Processing of Personal Information in violation of this Section 16 of this Trust Agreement, the Company’s instructions or any applicable Privacy Law, or any
Information Security Incident, may cause immediate and irreparable harm to the Company for which money damages may not constitute an adequate remedy. Therefore, the Trustee agrees that Company may obtain specific performance and injunctive or other
equitable relief for any such violation or incident, in addition to its remedies at law. 
 If there is an Information Security Incident caused
by Wells Fargo’s gross negligence or willful misconduct (as mutually agreed to by Wells Fargo and Altria) and notification to affected individuals is required by applicable law (as reasonably determined by Altria), Wells
Fargo shall reimburse Altria on demand for all Notification Related Costs (defined below) incurred by Altria arising out of or in connection with any such Information Security Incident. If notification to an individual is
required under any law as a result of an Information Security Incident, then notifications to all individuals who are affected by the same Information Security Incident (as reasonably determined by Altria) will be considered legally required.
The language of such notification shall be mutually agreed upon by the parties, such agreement not to be unreasonably withheld.
 Notification
Related Costs means Altria’s reasonable internal and external costs associated with addressing and responding to an Information Security Incident, including but not limited to: (aa) 

  
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preparing and mailing or other transmission of required notifications; (bb) preparing and mailing or other transmission of such other communications to customers, agents or others
as Altria deems reasonably appropriate; (cc) establishing a call center or other communications procedures in response to such Information Security Incident (e.g., developing call center FAQs, talking points and training); (dd) public
relations and other similar crisis management services; (ee) legal and accounting fees and expenses associated with Altria’s investigation of and response to such event; (ff) costs for credit monitoring and similar services that are
associated with legally required notifications or are advisable under the circumstances. 
 For the purposes of this Section 16,
“Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual (such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, Social Security number (or its equivalent), driver’s
license number, account number, personal identification number, health or medical information, or any other unique identifier or one or more factors specific to the individual’s physical, physiological, mental, economic or social identity),
whether such data is in individual or aggregate form and regardless of the media in which it is contained, that may be (i) disclosed at any time to the Trustee by the Company in anticipation of, in connection with or incidental to the
performance of services for or on behalf of the Company; (ii) Processed at any time by the Trustee in connection with or incidental to the performance of this Trust Agreement; or (iii) derived by the Trustee from the information described
in (i) and (ii) above. “Process” or “Processing” means any operation or set of operations performed upon Personal Information or other Confidential Information, whether or not by automatic means, such as creating,
collecting, procuring, obtaining, accessing, recording, organizing, storing, adapting, altering, retrieving, consulting, using, disclosing or destroying the information in accordance with the Trustee’s record retention policies. 

 

	Section 17.	Miscellaneous 

  

	(a)	Any provision of this Trust Agreement prohibited by law shall be ineffective to the extent of any such prohibition, without invalidating the remaining provisions
hereof. 

  

	(b)	The Company hereby represents and warrants that the Plans have been established, maintained and administered in accordance with all applicable laws, including without
limitation, ERISA. The Company hereby indemnifies and agrees to hold the Trustee harmless from all liabilities, including attorneys’ fees, relating to or arising out of the establishment, maintenance and administration of the Plans. To the
extent the Company does not pay any of such liabilities in a reasonably timely manner, the Trustee may obtain payment from the Trust. 

  

	(c)	Benefits payable to Participants under this Trust Agreement may not be anticipated, assigned (either at law or in equity), alienated, pledged, encumbered or subjected
to attachment, garnishment, levy, execution or other legal or equitable process. 

  

	(d)	This Trust Agreement shall be binding on the Company’s and the Trustee’s successors and permitted assigns. 

  
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	(e)	In the event of a conflict between the terms of the ASA and the terms of this Trust Agreement, the terms of this Trust Agreement shall control.

  

	(f)	This Trust Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Trust Agreement has been executed on behalf of the parties hereto on the day
and year first above written. 
  

											
		 	ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES INC.	 	 WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
 as Trustee

						
		 	By:	 	 /S/ PETER C. FAUST
	 		 	By:	 	 /S/ ALAN C. FRAZIER

						
		 	Its:	 	 V.P. Compensation and Benefits
	 		 	Its:	 	 Senior Vice President

				
		 	ATTEST:	 		 	ATTEST:
						
		 	By:	 	 /S/ THOMAS R. HOUGHTALING
	 		 	By:	 	 /S/ TRACY C. HARTSELL

						
		 	Its:	 	 Senior Manager of Executive Compensation
	 		 	Its:	 	 Vice President

  
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 Attachment A 
 The following Plans sponsored by the Company are covered by this Trust: 
  

	1.	Benefit Equalization Plan (Pension and Profit-Sharing) 

  

	2.	Supplemental Management Employees’ Retirement Plan 

  
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 Attachment B 

Definitions of Plans Change in Control 
 (referred to as Change in Control in the Plans ) 

1.        Benefit Equalization Plan, Article VIII, B 

As in effect January 1, 2010 
  

	B.	Definition of Change in Control. 

(1) “Change in Control” shall mean the happening of any of the following events with respect to a Grandfathered Benefit
Equalization Retirement Allowance and Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance: 
 (a) The
acquisition by any individual, entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and amended (the “Exchange Act”)) (a “Person”) of beneficial ownership (within the
meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) of 20% or more of either (i) the then outstanding shares of common stock of Altria Group, Inc. (the “Outstanding Company Common Stock”) or (ii) the combined voting power
of the then outstanding voting securities of Altria Group, Inc. entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the “Outstanding Company Voting Securities”); provided, however, that the following acquisitions shall not constitute
a Change in Control: (i) any acquisition directly from Altria Group, Inc., (ii) any acquisition by Altria Group, Inc., (iii) any acquisition by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by Altria Group, Inc.
or any corporation controlled by Altria Group, Inc. or (iv) any acquisition by any corporation pursuant to a transaction described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (3) of this Section B; or 

(b) Individuals who, as of the date hereof, constitute the Board (the “Incumbent Board”) cease for any reason to
constitute at least a majority of the Board; provided, however, that any individual becoming a director subsequent to the date hereof whose election, or nomination for election by Altria Group, Inc.’s shareholders, was approved by a vote of at
least a majority of the directors then comprising the Incumbent Board shall be considered as though such individual were a member of the Incumbent Board, but excluding, for this purpose, any such individual whose initial assumption of office occurs
as a result of an actual or threatened election contest with respect to the election or removal of directors or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a Person other than the Board; or 

(c) Approval by the shareholders of Altria Group, Inc. of a reorganization, merger, share exchange or consolidation (a
“Business Combination”), in each case, unless, following such Business Combination, (i) all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and
Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such Business Combination beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than 80% of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock and the combined voting power of the then
outstanding voting securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, as the case may be, of the corporation resulting from such Business 

  
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Combination (including, without limitation, a corporation which as a result of such transaction owns Altria Group, Inc. through one or more subsidiaries) in substantially the same proportions as
their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be, (ii) no Person (excluding any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of
Altria Group, Inc. or such corporation resulting from such Business Combination) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 20% or more of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock of the corporation resulting from such Business
Combination or the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation except to the extent that such ownership existed prior to the Business Combination and (iii) at least a majority of the members of the board
of directors of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement, or of the action of the Board, providing for such Business Combination; or

 (d) Approval by the shareholders of Altria Group, Inc. of (i) a complete liquidation or dissolution of
Altria Group, Inc. or (ii) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of Altria Group, Inc., other than to a corporation, with respect to which following such sale or other disposition, (A) more than 80% of,
respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock of such corporation and the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors is then beneficially
owned, directly or indirectly, by all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such sale
or other disposition in substantially the same proportion as their ownership, immediately prior to such sale or other disposition, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be, (B) less
than 20% of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock of such corporation and the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors is then
beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any Person (excluding any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of Altria Group, Inc. or such corporation), except to the extent that such Person owned 20% or more of the Outstanding Company Common
Stock or Outstanding Company Voting Securities prior to the sale or disposition and (C) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors of such corporation were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the
initial agreement, or of the action of the Board, providing for such sale or other disposition of assets of Altria Group, Inc. or were elected, appointed or nominated by the Board. 

(2) “Change in Control” shall mean the happening of any of the events specified in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-
3(i)(5)(v), (vi) and (vii) with respect to a Benefit Equalization Retirement Allowance, Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance and that portion of a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is not a Grandfathered Benefit
Equalization Retirement Allowance and that portion of a Benefit Equalization Combined Allowance that is not a Grandfathered Benefit Equalization Profit-Sharing Allowance. For purposes of determining if a Change in Control has occurred, the Change in
Control event must 

  
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relate to a corporation identified in Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A- 3(i)(5)(ii), provided, however, that (i) the spin-off of the shares of Philip Morris International Inc. to the
shareholders of Altria Group, Inc. shall not be considered to be a Change in Control and (ii) any change in the Incumbent Board coincident with such spin-off shall not be considered to be a Change in Control. 

2.        Supplemental Management Employees’ Retirement Plan, Article I(i)

 As amended and in effect as of January 1, 2008 

(1) Change of Control shall mean the happening of any of the following events with respect to a Grandfathered Supplemental Retirement
Allowance, a Grandfathered Supplemental Survivor Income Benefit Allowance and Grandfathered Supplemental Profit-Sharing Allowance: 
 (A) The acquisition by any individual, entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) (a “Person”) of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of
Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) of 20% or more of either (i) the then outstanding shares of common stock of Altria Group, Inc. (the “Outstanding Company Common Stock”) or (ii) the combined voting power of the then
outstanding voting securities of Altria Group, Inc. entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the “Outstanding Company Voting Securities”); provided, however, that the following acquisitions shall not constitute a Change of
Control: (i) any acquisition directly from Altria Group, Inc., (ii) any acquisition by Altria Group, Inc., (iii) any acquisition by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by Altria Group, Inc. or any
corporation controlled by Altria Group, Inc. or (iv) any acquisition by any corporation pursuant to a transaction described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of subparagraph (C) of this Article I, (i) (1) of the Plan; or

 (B) Individuals who, as of the date hereof, constitute the Board of Directors of Altria Group, Inc. (the “Incumbent
Board”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the Board of Directors of Altria Group, Inc.; provided, however, that any individual becoming a director subsequent to the date hereof whose election, or nomination for election
by Altria Group, Inc.’s shareholders, was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the directors then comprising the Incumbent Board shall be considered as though such individual were a member of the Incumbent Board, but excluding, for this
purpose, any such individual whose initial assumption of office occurs as a result of an actual or threatened election contest with respect to the election or removal of directors or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by
or on behalf of a Person other than the Board of Directors of Altria Group, Inc.; or 
 (C) Approval by the shareholders of
Altria Group, Inc. of a reorganization, merger, share exchange or consolidation (a “Business Combination”), in each case, unless, following such Business Combination: 
 (i) all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately
prior to such Business 

  
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Combination beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than 80% of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock and the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting
securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, as the case may be, of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination (including, without limitation, a corporation which as a result of such transaction owns Altria
Group, Inc. through one or more subsidiaries) in substantially the same proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may
be; 
 (ii) no Person (excluding any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of Altria Group, Inc. or such corporation resulting
from such Business Combination) beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 20% or more of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination or the combined voting power of the then
outstanding voting securities of such corporation except to the extent that such ownership existed prior to the Business Combination; and 
 (iii) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors of the corporation resulting from such Business Combination were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the
initial agreement, or of the action of the Board of Directors of Altria Group, Inc., providing for such Business Combination; or 

(D) Approval by the shareholders of Altria Group, Inc. of (1) a complete liquidation or dissolution of Altria Group, Inc. or
(2) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of Altria Group, Inc., other than to a corporation, with respect to which following such sale or other disposition: 

(i) more than 80% of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock of such corporation and the combined voting power of the
then outstanding voting securities of such corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors is then beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the beneficial
owners, respectively, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities immediately prior to such sale or other disposition in substantially the same proportion as their ownership, immediately prior to such sale or
other disposition, of the Outstanding Company Common Stock and Outstanding Company Voting Securities, as the case may be; 
 (ii)
less than 20% of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock of such corporation and the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of directors is
then beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any Person (excluding any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of Altria Group, Inc. or such corporation), except to the extent that such Person owned 20% or more of

  
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the Outstanding Company Common Stock or Outstanding Company Voting Securities prior to the sale or disposition; and 
 (iii) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors of such corporation were members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the execution of the initial agreement, or of the action of the
Board of Directors of Altria Group, Inc., providing for such sale or other disposition of assets of Altria Group, Inc. or were elected, appointed or nominated by the Board of Directors of Altria Group, Inc.; and 

(2) Change of Control shall mean the happening of any of the events specified in Treasury Regulation §1.409A-3(i)(5)(v),
(vi) and (vii) with respect to that portion of a Supplemental Retirement Allowance that is not a Grandfathered Supplemental Retirement Allowance, that portion of a Supplemental Survivor Income Benefit Allowance that is not a Grandfathered
Supplemental Survivor Income Benefit Allowance and that portion of a Supplemental Profit-Sharing Allowance that is not a Grandfathered Supplemental Profit-Sharing Allowance. For purposes of determining if a Change of Control has occurred, the Change
of Control event must relate to a corporation identified in Treasury Regulation §1.409A-3(i)(5)(ii), provided, however, that (i) the spin-off of the shares of Philip Morris International Inc. to the shareholders of Altria Group, Inc. shall
not be considered to be a Change of Control, and (ii) any change in the Incumbent Board coincident with such spin-off shall not be considered to be a Change of Control. 

  
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