Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
10 October 2006



DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING



The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 10 October 2006 that it had on 10 October 2006 released:


a)   962 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") 
     to a participant in the British American Tobacco Long Term Incentive
     Plan; and

b)   2,177 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") 
     to a participant in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share Bonus
     Scheme;


Following these transactions, the independent trustee of the British American
Tobacco Group Employee Trust holds a total of 19,708,056 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 on the above mentioned date:  Mr P N Adams, Mr P A
Rayner and Mr A Monteiro de Castro.



I A M B de Minvielle Devaux
Assistant Secretary



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