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This advertisement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of offers to buy any of these securities. The offering is made only by the Prospectus. April 7,1977 900,000 Shares R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. Common Stock ($S Par Value) The above shares of Common Stock are being acquired by the several Underwriters follow- ing the purchase by the Underwriters of 600,000 shares of $2.25 Convertible Preferred Stock of R. T. Reynolds Industries, Inc. from a stockholder of the Company and the conversion by the Underwriters of the preferred shares into shares of Common Stock of the Company. Each share of Preferred Stock is convertible into 1.5 shares of Common Stock on the surrender of the preferred share and payment to the Company of $22 in cash. The Company will receive only those proceeds resulting from the cash payment upon conversion of the Preferred Stock. Price $63.75 per share Copies of the Prospectus may be obtained from any of the several underwriters, including the undersigned, only in States in which such underwriters are qualified to act as dealers in securities and in which the Prospectus may legally be distributed. The First Boston Corporation Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. Bache Halsey Stuart Inc. Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Incorporated Securities Corporation Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated Loeb Rhoades & Co. Inc. Reynolds Securities Inc. Warburg Paribas Becker Inc. Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill,Noyes Incorporated Kuhn Loeb & Co. Incorporated Lazard Freres & Co. E. F. Hutton & Company Inc. Lehman Brothers Incorporated Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated Salomon Brothers Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis Incorporated Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. Incorporated Wertheim & Co., Inc. White, Weld & Co. Incorporated Shearson Hayden Stone Inc. 8 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
