Total Voting Rights

British American Tobacco PLC
28 April 2008

British American Tobacco p.l.c.

28 April 2008



British American Tobacco p.l.c. received the following notification on 28 April
2008:-



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TR-1: Notification of Major Interests in Shares



1.      Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to
which voting rights are attached:



British American Tobacco p.l.c.



2.      Reason for the notification (please state Yes/No)



An acquisition or disposal of voting rights (No)



An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the
acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached (No)



An event changing the breakdown of voting rights (No)



Other (please specify): (Yes)  The issuer has bought back its own shares in the
market for cancellation.  As a consequence of this reduction in share capital,
the notifier's percentage interest in the issuer has increased and reached the
threshold.



3.      Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:



Compagnie Financiere Richemont S.A.



4.      Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):



Compagnie Financiere Richemont S.A. (indirect)

Richemont S.A. (indirect)

R&R Holdings S.A. (direct)



5.      Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or
reached if different):  25 April 2008





6.      Date on which issuer notified:



28 April 2008



7.      Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:



30 per cent



8.      Notified details:



A. Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of   Situation                       Resulting
shares          previous to the                 situation after
                Triggering                      the triggering
                transaction                     transaction
                Number of       Number of       Number of       Number of                      % of voting
                Shares          Voting Rights   shares          voting rights                  rights
                                                                Direct          Indirect       Direct         Indirect
Ordinary shares 604,336,627     604,336,627     604,336,627                     604,336,627                   30.0%
of 25 pence
each

ISIN:

GB0002875804





B. Financial Instruments



Resulting situation after the triggering transaction


Type of financial         Expiration date         Exercise/Conversion       Number of voting rights    % of voting 
rights
instrument                                        Period/Date               that may be acquired if
                                                                            the instrument is
                                                                            exercised/converted
N/A



Total (A+B)





Number of voting rights                 % of voting rights



604,336,627                                  30.0 per cent.



9.      Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or
the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:



R&R Holdings S.A. is a direct shareholder of the issuer (holding 604,336,627
ordinary shares of 25 pence each).  Richemont S.A. is the parent undertaking of
R&R Holdings S.A. for the purposes of the DTRs.  Compagnie Financiere Richemont
S.A. is Richemont S.A.'s own parent undertaking for those purposes.



Proxy voting



10.   Name of the proxy holder:



N/A



11.  Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:



N/A



12.  Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:



N/A



13.  Additional information:



The total number of voting rights in the issuer used to calculate the relevant
percentages in this notification was 2,014,396,166, being the number disclosed
by the issuer to the market on 25 April 2008.



14.  Contact name:



Alan Grieve / Matthew Kilgarriff



15.  Contact telephone number:



[phone] / [phone]



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Note:  In 2007, the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers (the "Panel") granted a
waiver of the requirement for R&R Holdings S.A. ("R&R") under the City Code to
make a general offer for the remainder of the entire issued share capital of
British American Tobacco p.l.c. (the "Company") in the event of R&R reaching or
exceeding 30 per cent of the Company's issued share capital (the "Waiver").  The
Waiver was approved by the Company's shareholders (excluding R&R) at the
Company's AGM in April 2007 at which time it was noted that the Directors of the
Company expected to continue to seek annual approval of a waiver from its
shareholders (excluding R&R) to a level not exceeding 35 per cent of the
Company's issued ordinary share capital.



Details of the 2008 waiver from the Panel and the required shareholder approval
are set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting (30 April 2008) and Circular
to Shareholders published by the Company on 1 April 2008.



Geoffrey Cunnington

Deputy Secretary

British American Tobacco p.l.c.



Tel:  [phone]




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