Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
04 July 2006



DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING


The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 4 July 2006 that it had between 3 July 2006 and 4 July
2006 released:

a)  24,304 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") 
to a participant in the British American Tobacco Long Term Incentive Plan; and

b)  28,994 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") 
to participants in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share Bonus Scheme;

Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British American
Tobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 20,831,822 Shares.

The following executive directors, together with other employees, are potential
beneficiaries under the trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested for Companies Act purposes but were not connected with the
transactions that took place between the above mentioned dates:  Mr P N Adams,
Mr P A Rayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro.


I A M B de Minvielle Devaux
Assistant Secretary

0207 845 1545




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