Near the end of the meeting, soon after CEO Louis Camilleri launched into an overview of the company's "good deeds" around the world, youth and adult advocates stood up and symbolically "quarantined" the company with props such as yellow "crime scene" tape, doctor's masks, biohazard suits, signs that read "Stop the Toxic Pandemic" and a banner that read "Quarantined for Global Health." Here's a transcript of how the action unfolded.

LOUIS CAMILLERI: I'm exceedingly proud to lead the Altria family of companies. Altria not only provides value for its shareholders, it adds value to the communities in which we operate. Ours is a philanthropic commitment that dates back over half a century. Last year alone, Altria companies donated some $200 million to deserving organizations around the world.

We have helped provide nutritious meals so that fewer people go hungry. We've have helped make shelter and legal services available for survivors of domestic violence and their families. We have helped --.

DAVID TRINNES: ATTENTION ladies and gentlemen, this company has REFUSED to stop spreading poison around the world! MILLIONS are dying every year! We MUST take action to quarantine this toxic pandemic!

[20 of us stand up with caution tape, doctor's masks, signs, and banner]

LOUIS CAMILLERI: Can you sit down please?

UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: [Inaudible - microphone inaccessible]

LOUIS CAMILLERI: Out of courtesy for all shareholders, can you sit down please? We have helped to exalt the human spirit with art sponsorships that nurture innovation, creative excellence and diversity. And when natural disasters have struck -- out of courtesy for all shareholders here, you've done your piece. Can you please sit down? I'm asking you to sit down.

All of you, please? If you want to do your things, you can go behind.

UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBERS: [Inaudible - microphone inaccessible]

Note: At this point, the group moved to the back of the room where they faced Camilleri and maintained their distracting presence until the conclusion of the meeting

LOUIS CAMILLERI: You're spoiling the view for other shareholders. Show some courtesy. We have supported organizations that help victims pick up the shattered pieces of their lives. Our corporate philanthropy mirrors the individual giving of our employees. In 2006, not for profit organizations received a total of almost $7 million through matching gifts and employee funds.

From [Richmond], Virginia, to Japan, they helped clean and beautify their communities. They mentored children in their native Chinese culture on Long Island. From Surabaya, Indonesia, to Brooklyn, New York, they provided emergency services that not only touched lives, but actually helped save them. And this is only a sampling of their efforts.

I'm extremely proud of the extraordinary difference our employees make in their communities. And I'm equally proud of the difference they make to your company. A great company is publicly defined by many things, but at the heart of those things are the great people who work for the company.

Our employees stand as a model of excellence for any corporation. Their virtues are many. But above all, they are caring, determined, ethical, courteous and good people. To lead them, indeed to work with them is both an honor and a pleasure. My heartfelt thanks go out to them. Please join me as I salute the employees of the Altria family of companies.