Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
03 October 2005


DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING

The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 3 October 2005 that on 30 September 2005 it had released
15,075 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to
satisfy the exercise of options under the Company's share option scheme.

Following this transaction, the independent trustee of the British American
Tobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 23,601,107 Shares.

The following executive directors, together with other employees, are potential
beneficiaries under the trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested for Companies Act purposes but were not connected with the
transactions that took place between the above mentioned dates:  Mr P N Adams,
Mr P A Rayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro.


Mrs A C Girling
Deputy Secretary

0207 845 1919


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