Transaction in Own Shares

British American Tobacco PLC
03 March 2004


                          British American Tobacco PLC



                                SHARE REPURCHASE



British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 3rd March 2004 it purchased for
cancellation 1,200,000 of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston at
a price of 807.64 pence per share.







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