Purchase of Own Securities

British American Tobacco PLC
29 August 2003



                          British American Tobacco PLC

                                SHARE REPURCHASE

British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 29th August 2003 it purchased for
cancellation 964,634 of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston at a
price of 645.79 pence per share.










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