Transaction in Own Shares

British American Tobacco PLC
09 August 2004




                          British American Tobacco PLC

                                SHARE REPURCHASE


British American Tobacco PLC announces that on 9th August 2004 it purchased for
cancellation 200,000 of its Ordinary shares from Credit Suisse First Boston at a
price of 832.33 pence per share.





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