Purchase of Own Securities

British American Tobacco PLC
04 August 2003


                          British American Tobacco PLC

                                SHARE REPURCHASE


British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 1st August 2003 it purchased for
cancellation 800,000 of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston at a
price of 643.74 pence per share.




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