Purchase of Own Securities

British American Tobacco PLC
31 July 2003













                          British American Tobacco PLC



                                SHARE REPURCHASE



British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 31ST July 2003 it purchased for
cancellation 1,200,000 of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston at
a price of 641.24 pence per share.




















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