Segment Reporting (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Schedule of Segment Reporting Information, by Segment [Table Text Block]

Segment data were as follows:



	For the Three Months Ended March 31,
	2015			2014
	(in millions)
Net revenues:
Smokeable products	$	5,221		$	4,958
Smokeless products	430			415
Wine	134			129
All other	19			15
Net revenues	$	5,804		$	5,517
Earnings before income taxes:
Operating companies income (loss):
Smokeable products	$	1,686		$	1,531
Smokeless products	251			239
Wine	27			22
All other	(41		)	(1		)
Amortization of intangibles	(5		)	(5		)
General corporate expenses	(53		)	(52		)
Operating income	1,865			1,734
Interest and other debt expense, net	(209		)	(153		)
Loss on early extinguishment of debt	(228		)	—
Earnings from equity investment in SABMiller	134			225
Earnings before income taxes	$	1,562		$	1,806

Schedule of Pre-tax Tobacco and Health Litigation Items [Table Text Block]

Tobacco and Health Litigation Items - For the three months ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, pre-tax charges related to certain tobacco and health litigation items were recorded in Altria Group, Inc.’s condensed consolidated statements of earnings as follows:



	For the Three Months Ended March 31,
	2015		2014
	(in millions)
Smokeable products segment	$	43	$	3
Interest and other debt expense, net	—		1
Total	$	43	$	4

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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