Purchase of Own Securities

British American Tobacco PLC
23 June 2003













                          British American Tobacco PLC



                                SHARE REPURCHASE



British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 23rd  June 2003 it purchased for
cancellation 1,000,000 of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston at
a price of 669.38 pence per share.













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