Director/PDMR Shareholding

British American Tobacco PLC
22 March 2007

DIRECTOR/PDMR SHAREHOLDING

The independent trustee of the British American Tobacco Group Employee Trust
notified the Company on 21 March 2007 that it had between 19 March 2007 and 20
March 2007 released:

a)   19,875 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") 
     to a participant in the British American Tobacco Long Term Incentive Plan;

b)   8,563 British American Tobacco p.l.c. 25p ordinary shares (the "Shares") to
     participants in the British American Tobacco Deferred Share Bonus Scheme; 
     and

c)   366,897 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 16,732,819 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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