Result of AGM

British American Tobacco PLC
26 April 2007


British American Tobacco p.l.c.

Results of Voting at the 2007 Annual General Meeting and Share Buy-Back -
Whitewash Approved

British American Tobacco p.l.c. ("BAT") announces that at the Annual General
Meeting held on 26 April 2007 (the "AGM") all the Resolutions as set out in the
Notice of Meeting dated 26 March 2007 were approved by the shareholders,
including an ordinary resolution (the "Whitewash Resolution") (Resolution 9)
which approved the waiver by the Takeover Panel of any obligation which might
otherwise fall on R & R Holdings S.A. ("R & R") to make a general offer to the
shareholders of the Company pursuant to Rule 9 of the City Code on Takeovers and
Mergers as a result of the Company making purchases of its own shares pursuant
to the buy-back authority granted at the AGM, which permitted BAT to purchase up
to approximately 10 per cent of its issued ordinary share capital.

Assuming no sales of ordinary shares by R & R, full use by BAT of the buy-back
authority granted at the AGM and no other person converting any convertible
security or exercising any options or other rights to subscribe in ordinary
shares, the maximum potential shareholding of R & R would represent 32.63 per
cent of the Company's issued voting share capital.

The results of voting at the AGM are as follows:

Resolution                                    For              Against      Withheld     Votes Total
Resolution 1:
Receipt of the 2006 Report and Accounts       1,458,142,936    35,425,618   35,308,100   1,528,876,654

Resolution 2:
Approval of the 2006 Remuneration Report      1,477,747,256    50,879,972   247,968      1,528,875,196

Resolution 3:
Declaration of the final dividend for 2006 of 1,526,714,506    2,150,582    11,566       1,528,876,654
40.2p per share

Resolution 4:
Reappointment of the PricewaterhouseCoopers   1,473,873,914    42,871,788   12,127,343   1,528,873,045
LLP as Auditors

Resolution 5:
Authority for the Directors to agree the      1,519,581,998    6,561,256    2,732,737    1,528,875,991
Auditors' remuneration

Resolution 6a:
Reappointment of Paul Adams as a Director     1,523,940,342    4,733,798    196,649      1,528,870,789

Resolution 6b:
Reappointment of Robert Lerwill as a Director 1,469,017,469    39,348,942   20,505,059   1,528,871,470

Resolution 6c:
Reappointment of Sir Nicholas Scheele as a    1,525,379,816    3,278,341    212,950      1,528,871,107
Director

Resolution 6d:
Reappointment of Thys Visser as a Director    1,468,329,752    60,334,503   207,494      1,528,871,749

Resolution 7:
Renewal of the Directors' authority to allot  1,518,440,293    10,262,491   165,194      1,528,867,978
shares

Resolution 8 (Special Resolution):
Renewal of the Directors' authority to        1,521,959,299    6,682,977    226,939      1,528,869,215
disapply pre-emption rights

Resolution 9:
Approval of waiver of offer obligation        1,014,161,925    413,113      644,496      1,015,219,534

Resolution 10 (Special Resolution):
Authority for the Company to purchase its own 1,528,121,489    668,163      81,376       1,528,871,028
shares

Resolution 11:
Authority to establish the British American   1,451,232,626    54,309,822   23,332,309   1,528,874,757
Tobacco 2007 Long Term Incentive Plan

Resolution 12:
Approval of the extension of the British      1,524,387,301    4,298,820    188,376      1,528,874,497
American Tobacco Sharesave Scheme

Resolution 13 (Special Resolution):
Ratification and confirmation of the 2006     1,526,692,405    112,418      275,763      1,527,080,586
interim dividend and matters relating thereto

Resolution 14 (Special Resolution):
Adoption of new articles of association       1,527,092,890    1,027,965    752,644      1,528,873,499



Shares in issue:                 2,054,605,407

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.2R and 9.6.3R, two copies of each of the
resolutions numbered 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 will shortly be forwarded to
the Document Viewing Facility of the FSA. A copy of the resolutions may also be
obtained from the Notice of Meeting which is available on the Company's website
at www.bat.com/agm

Further, in accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.1R, two copies of the Company's
newly adopted articles of association (Resolution 14) will shortly be forwarded
to the Document Viewing Facility of the FSA. A copy of the Company's new
articles of association may also be found on the Company's website at
www.bat.com/agm

G C W Cunnington

Deputy Secretary, British American Tobacco p.l.c.

26 April 2007

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