Transaction in Own Shares

British American Tobacco PLC
22 March 2004


                          British American Tobacco PLC

                                SHARE REPURCHASE


British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 22nd March 2004 it purchased for
cancellation 800,000 of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston at a
price of 823.40 pence per share.


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