LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
                    FOR SECTION 13 AND SECTION 16 REPORTING

        KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby makes,
constitutes and appoints Marc N. Bell, J. Bryant Kirkland III and Richard J.
Lampen, and each of them, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact
(the "Attorney-in-Fact"), with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
each with the power to act alone for the undersigned and in the undersigned's
name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to:

        1.   Prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's
             behalf, and submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission
             ("SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other
             documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords
             enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of
             reports required or considered advisable under Section 13 or
             Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934(the "Exchange
             Act") or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

        2.   Prepare, execute and submit to the SEC, any national securities
             exchange or securities quotation system and Vector Group Ltd. (the
             "Company") any and all reports (including any amendment thereto) of
             the undersigned required or considered advisable under Section 13
             or Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations
             thereunder, with respect to the equity securities of the Company,
             including Forms 3, 4 and 5 and Schedule 13D or 13G; and

        3.   Obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the
             undersigned's behalf, information regarding transactions in the
             Company's equity securities from any third party, including the
             Company and any brokers, dealers, employee benefit plan
             administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes
             any such third party to release any such information to the
             Attorney-in-Fact.

        The undersigned acknowledges that:

             a) This Limited Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require,
                the Attorney-in- Fact to act at his or her discretion on
                information provided to such Attorney-in-Fact without
                independent verification of such information;

             b) Any documents prepared or executed by the Attorney-in-Fact on
                behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Limited Power of
                Attorney will be in such form and will contain such information
                as the Attorney-in-Fact, in his or her discretion, deems
                necessary or desirable;

             c) Neither the Company nor the Attorney-in-Fact assumes any
                liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with
                the requirements of Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange
                Act, any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply
                with such requirements, or any liability of the undersigned for
                disgorgement of profits under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act;
                and

             d) This Limited Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned
                from responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's
                obligations under Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act,
                including, without limitation, the reporting requirements under
                Section 13 or Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

        The undersigned hereby grants to the Attorney-in-Fact full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite, necessary or
convenient to be done in connection with the foregoing, as fully, to all intents
and purposes, as the undersigned might or could do in person, hereby ratifying
and confirming all that the Attorney-in- Fact, or his or her substitute or
substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by authority of this Limited
Power of Attorney.

        This Limited Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect
until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 4 or 5 or Schedule 13D
or 13G with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in equity
securities of the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed
writing delivered to the Attorney-in- Fact. This Limited Power of Attorney
revokes all previous powers of attorney with respect to the subject matter of
this Limited Power of Attorney.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Limited Power of
Attorney as of March 6, 2015.


                               /s/ Ronald J. Bernstein
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                              Ronald J. Bernstein