['s', 'TOBACCO', 'COMPANY', 'MEMORANDUM', 'March', '29,', '1999', 'FO:', 'All', 'Employees', 'FROM:', 'Ronald', '§.', 'Milstein,', 'Vice', 'President,', 'General', 'Counsel', 'RE:', 'Btate', 'of', 'Iowa', 'Order', 'and', 'Record', 'Retenticn', ' ', 'The', 'purpose', 'of', 'this', 'memorandum', 'is', 'to', 'remind', 'you', 'of', 'the', "Company's", 'continuing', 'obligation', 'to', 'preserve', 'records', 'and', 'to', 'advise', 'you', 'of', 'changes', 'in', 'record', 'retention', 'requirements', 'arising', 'from', 'the', 'dismissal', 'of', 'the', 'State', 'of', 'Towa', 'cost', 'recovery', 'suit', '(and', 'the', 'record', 'preservation', 'order', 'entered', 'in', 'that', 'case', 'in', '1997).', 'The', 'Company', 'is', 'committed', 'to', 'complying', 'with', 'record', 'retention', 'requirements.', 'Our', 'Record', 'Retention', 'Policy', 'requires', 'that', 'we', 'keep', 'broad', 'categories', 'cf', 'records', 'that', 'are', 'potentially', 'relevant', 'to', 'smoking', 'and', 'health', 'litigation.', 'This', 'continuing', 'cbligation', 'encompasses', 'records', 'generated', 'principally', 'by', 'the', 'Research', 'and', 'Product', 'Development,', 'Manufacturing,', 'Marketing,', 'Marketing', 'Research,', 'Sales,', 'and', 'Legal', 'departments', '(and', 'Executive', 'Management).', 'Thus,', 'many', 'of', 'the', 'records', 'that', 'you', 'may', 'have', 'been', 'retaining', 'because', 'of', 'the', 'State', 'of', 'Iowa', 'order', 'may', 'still', 'need', 'to', 'be', 'retained', 'because', 'of', 'potential', 'relevance', 'to', 'other', 'amoking', 'and', 'health', 'litigation.', 'Further,', 'the', 'dismissal', 'of', 'the', 'State', 'of', 'Towa', 'suit', 'has', 'no', 'effect', 'on', 'obligations', 'to', 'retain', 'records', 'concerning', 'tobacco', 'leaf', 'buying', 'activities', 'and', 'related', 'information', 'that', 'were', 'set', 'forth', 'in', 'a', 'recent', 'memo', 'to', 'all', 'employees.', 'The', 'dismissal', 'of', 'the', 'State', 'of', 'Iowa', 'suit', 'meang', 'that,', 'on', 'a', 'prospective', 'or', '“going', 'Forward”', 'basis,', 'you', 'no', 'longer', 'have', 'to', 'segregate', 'records', 'subject', 'to', 'the', 'State', 'of', 'Towa', 'order.', 'If', 'you', 'have', 'previously', 'segregated', 'such', 'records,', 'you', 'should', 'index', 'the', 'records', '(e.g.,', '"Iowa', 'Records"}', 'and', 'send', 'them', 'to', 'the', "Company's", 'Records', 'Center.', 'You', 'may', 'not', 'under', 'any', 'circumstances', 'destroy', 'records', 'that', 'you', 'previously', 'segregated', 'as', 'State', 'of', 'Towa', 'records.', '0089998']