Purchase of Own Securities

British American Tobacco PLC
27 August 2003













                          British American Tobacco PLC



                                SHARE REPURCHASE



British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 27th August 2003 it purchased for
cancellation 700,000 of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston at a
price of 657.29 pence per share.




















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