Director Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
15 August 2002

DIRECTORS' INTERESTS


The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 15 August 2002 that it had on 15 August 2002 released
11,179 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to a
participant in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share Bonus Scheme. The
participant to whom shares were released is not a director of British American
Tobacco p.l.c.

Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British American
Tobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 37,159,125 Shares. The following
executive directors, together with other employees, are potential beneficiaries
and are therefore treated as having an interest: Mr P N Adams, Mr M F Broughton,
Mr P A Rayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro.


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