Director Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
03 February 2003


DIRECTORS' INTERESTS

The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 3 February 2003 that it had on 31 January 2003 released
12,354 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 36,173,449 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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