Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
04 August 2005




DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING


The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 3 August 2005 that it had between 1 August 2005 and 2
August 2005 released:
     
a)   15,891 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") 
     to participants in the British American Tobacco Long Term Incentive Plan;
     
b)   31,547 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") 
     to participants in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share Bonus
     Scheme; and

c)   15,856 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 23,988,610 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.


A C Girling
Deputy Company Secretary

0207 845 1919


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