Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
14 March 2007



DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING


The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 13 March 2007 that it had between 12 March 2007 and 13
March 2007 released:


a)  8,675 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to 
    a participant in the British American Tobacco Long Term Incentive Plan;


b)  854 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to a 
    participant in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share Bonus Scheme; and


c)  3,458 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 18,600,942 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.


I A M B de Minvielle Devaux

Assistant Secretary

0207 845 1545


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