Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
28 September 2006


DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING



The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 28 September 2006 that between 26 September 2006 and 28
September 2006 it had released 19,644 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 these transactions, the independent trustee of the British American
Tobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 19,756,009 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.



Miss IAMB de Minvielle Devaux

Assistant Secretary



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