Purchase of Own Securities

British American Tobacco PLC
26 August 2003


                          British American Tobacco PLC

                                SHARE REPURCHASE


British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 26th August 2003 it purchased for
cancellation 675,000of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston at a
price of 655.32 pence per share.


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