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RJR NABISCO                                  News Release


                           RJR NABISCO SHAREHOLDERS:

                       LOOK WHAT BENNETT LeBOW HAS DONE
                                FOR YOU LATELY


Last Tuesday, Bennett LeBow announced his latest reckless ploy to gain
control of RJR Nabisco.

By close of business Friday, the market value of RJR Nabisco and other
tobacco-related stocks had fallen by almost $7 billion.

Here's what the experts had to say:

"Bennett LeBow is going to look after his own interests to the absolute
exception of everything else, including his shareholders and employees."

         -     Tom Hoens, Fitch Investors Service, Bloomberg

He's trying to do the best for himself, with morals aside."

         -     Stephen Yacktman, Yacktman Asset Management,
Bloomberg

"He will be perceived as willing to trade away a percentage of RJR's profits
and destroy the (tobacco) industry's decades of take-no-prisoners litigation
approach for his personal gain."

         -     Diana Temple, Solomon Brothers, Dow Jones News
Service*

"The underlying concerns that most shareholders have of self-dealing of
Bennett LeBow and his board don't magically disappear."

         -     David Adelman, Dean Witter, Reuters

"This has nothing to do with tobacco litigation.  It is pure and simply a
ploy by Mr. LeBow."

         -     Arthur Cecil, T. Towe Price, USA Today

"I think he will do whatever he can think of to overturn the current
management and try to take control of RJR.  But in so doing, he is
putting at risk a perfect litigation record."


         -     David Kolpak, Society Asset Management,
               The Washington Post


                   RJR Nabisco shareholders: Vote your proxy
                       for the RJR Nabisco board today.

                           You can't afford not to.

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