Transaction in Own Shares

British American Tobacco PLC
10 September 2004


                           British American Tobacco PLC

                                SHARE REPURCHASE

British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 10th September 2004 it purchased
for cancellation 300,000 of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston
at a price of  824.72 pence per share.


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