Transaction in Own Shares

British American Tobacco PLC
26 March 2004



                          British American Tobacco PLC



                                SHARE REPURCHASE



British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 26th March 2004 it purchased for
cancellation 1,050,000 of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston at
a price of 811.42 pence per share.






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