Total Voting Rights

British American Tobacco PLC
28 December 2006

British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the "Company") - Voting Rights and Capital



In conformity with the Transparency Directive's transitional provision 6 we
notify the market of the following:-



The Company's issued share capital consists of 2,061,876,154 ordinary shares of
25p each with voting rights. At the time of this announcement, no shares are
held in treasury by the Company.





Of the 2,061,876,154 ordinary shares in issue, 604,336,627 are held by R & R
Holdings S.A.  Pursuant to the Standstill Agreement dated 11 January 1999
entered into between the Company and R & R Holdings S.A. (then named Rothmans
International Holdings S.A.), Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA (then called
Compagnie Financiere Richemont AG) and Rembrandt Group Limited (together the R
and R Parties), the R and R Parties gave certain undertakings to the Company
including, inter alia, that the R and R Parties and persons acting in concert
with any of them will not exercise at any general meeting of the Company more
than 25 per cent of the voting rights attached to shares of a class carrying
rights to vote in all circumstances at general meetings of the Company (the "R&R
Voting Interest").



Therefore at the date of this announcement, the R&R Voting Interest comprises
515,469,038 ordinary shares.



Taking account of the R&R Voting Interest, the remaining 75% of the voting
rights are exercisable over 1,546,407,116 ordinary shares in the Company (the "
Voting Rights Figure").



The Voting Rights Figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the
calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their
voting rights interest in, or a change to that interest in, the Company under
the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.



G C W Cunnington
Deputy Secretary
British American Tobacco p.l.c.



28 December 2006






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