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This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-182102) (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 13, 2012 by co-registrants Lorillard, Inc. (“Lorillard”) and Lorillard Tobacco Company, LLC (as successor issuer to Lorillard Tobacco Company) (together with Lorillard, the “Co-Registrants”) is being filed to deregister all debt securities, preferred stock, common stock, warrants and guarantees of debt securities of the Co-Registrants (the “Registered Securities”) that were registered under the Registration Statement.

On June 12, 2015, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”), dated as of July 15, 2014, as it may be amended from time to time, among Lorillard, Reynolds American Inc. (“RAI”), a North Carolina corporation, and Lantern Acquisition Co. (“Merger Sub”), a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of RAI, Merger Sub merged with and into Lorillard (the “Merger”), with Lorillard continuing as the surviving corporation in the merger and a wholly owned subsidiary of RAI.

As a result of the Merger, any offering pursuant to the Registration Statement has been terminated. The Co-Registrants are filing this Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement to terminate the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and remove from registration any and all securities of the Co-Registrants previously registered but unsold under the Registration Statement as of the effective time of the Merger. In accordance with undertakings made by the Co-Registrants in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Co-Registrants hereby remove from registration the securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statement, if any.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 478 thereunder, each of the co-registrants certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Winston-Salem, State of North Carolina, on the 12th day of June, 2015.


LORILLARD, INC.

By:	/s/ McDara P. Folan, III
	Name:	McDara P. Folan, III
	Title:	President and Chief Executive Officer


LORILLARD TOBACCO COMPANY, LLC (as successor issuer to Lorillard Tobacco Company)

By:	/s/ McDara P. Folan, III
	Name:	McDara P. Folan, III
	Title:	President

No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.