Result of AGM

British American Tobacco PLC
30 April 2008

British American Tobacco p.l.c.



Results of Voting at the 2008 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 30 April 2008 (the "AGM") all the Resolutions as set out in the
Notice of Meeting dated 1 April 2008 were approved by the shareholders,
including an ordinary resolution (the "Whitewash Resolution") (Resolution 10)
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 33.30 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 (Ex
                                                                                               Votes Withheld)
Resolution 1:
Receipt of the 2007 Report and Accounts           1,401,948,858    24,486,756    15,838,594    1,426,435,614

Resolution 2:
Approval of the 2007 Remuneration Report          1,399,943,635    32,215,135    9,939,443     1,432,158,770

Resolution 3:
Declaration of the final dividend for 2007 of     1,489,076,579    14,699        527,100       1,489,091,278
47.60p per share

Resolution 4:
Reappointment of the PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP   1,416,438,841    19,673,420    6,161,032     1,436,112,261
as Auditors

Resolution 5:
Authority for the Directors to agree the          1,485,752,798    3,688,624     176,586       1,489,441,422
Auditors' remuneration

Resolution 6a:
Reappointment of Jan du Plessis                   1,487,837,595    1,561,023     219,390       1,489,398,618

as a Director

Resolution 6b:
Reappointment of Ana Maria Llopis                 1,484,098,426    5,018,825     497,635       1,489,117,251

as a Director

Resolution 6c:
Reappointment of Anthony Ruys                     1,435,779,029    1,596,694     4,895,414     1,437,375,723

as a Director

Resolution 7a:
Reappointment of Karen de Segundo                 1,487,106,006    2,296,071     214,108       1,489,402,077

as a Director

Resolution 7b:
Reappointment of Nicandro Durante                 1,487,555,517    1,826,346     204,098       1,489,381,863

as a Director

Resolution 7c
Reappointment of Christine Morin-Postel           1,487,796,885    1,566,522     217,511       1,489,363,407

as a Director

Resolution 7d
Reappointment of Ben Stevens as a                 1,487,193,481    2,127,408     190,327       1,489,320,889

Director


Resolution 8
Renewal of Directors' authority to                1,480,625,282    8,725,200     233,273       1,489,350,482
allot shares

Resolution 9(Special Resolution):
Renewal of the Directors' authority to disapply   1,487,561,211    1,730,007     290,753       1,489,291,218
pre-emption rights

Resolution 10:
Approval of waiver of offer obligation            963,889,085      4,920,800     17,308,912    968,809,885

Resolution 11 (Special Resolution):
Authority for the Company to purchase its own     1,488,754,419    691,826       171,763       1,489,446,245
shares

Resolution 12 (Special Resolution):
Adoption of new articles of association           1,475,992,163    13,310,362    313,959       1,489,302,525



Shares in issue:                 2,014,296,166 as at 28 April 2008.

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.2R and 9.6.3R, two copies of each of the
resolutions numbered 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 will 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 12) will 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.

30 April 2008

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