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Mon 22 Dec 2008, 14:00 BTI - British American Tobacco p.l.c. - Notification Of Major Interests In
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BTI                                                                             
BTI - British American Tobacco p.l.c. - Notification Of Major Interests In      
Shares                                                                          
British American Tobacco p.l.c.                                                 
Incorporated in England and Wales                                               
(Registration number: 3407696)                                                  
Short name:  BATS                                                               
Share code:  BTI                                                                
ISIN number:  GB0002875804                                                      
("British American Tobacco p.l.c." or "the Company")                            
22 December 2008                                                                
British American Tobacco p.l.c. received the following notification on 19       
December 2008:-                                                                 
QUOTE                                                                           
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES                                 
1.   Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which
voting rights are attached:                                                 
    British American Tobacco p.l.c.                                             
2.   Reason for the notification (please state Yes/No)                          
    An acquisition or disposal of voting rights  (Yes)                          
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the 
    acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached    
    An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                            
    Other:                                                                      
3.   Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:             
    Legal & General Group Plc (Group)                                           
    Legal & General Investment Management Limited (LGIM)                        
4.   Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3):                         
Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management) Limited (PMC)               
    Legal & General Group Plc (L&G)                                             
5.   Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or     
    reached if different):  17 December 2008                                    
6.   Date on which issuer notified:                                             
    19 December 2008                                                            
7.   Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:                               
    Below 5% (Group)                                                            
Below 5% (LGIM)                                                             
8.   Notified details:                                                          
    A.   Voting rights attached to shares                                       
B.                                                                              
C.                                                                              
D.                                                                              
Class/type Situation                Resulting                                   
of shares  previous to              situation                                   
the                      after the                                    
          Triggering               triggering                                   
          transaction              transaction                                  
          Number of    Number of   Number of    Number          % of            
Shares       Voting      shares       of              voting          
                       Rights                   voting          rights          
                                                rights                          
          100,058,639  100,058,639              Direct  Indi-   Direct   Indi-  
rect             rect   
ORD                                 Below 5%     Below   Below   Below    Below 
                                                5%      5%      5%       5%     
GBP 0.25                                                                        
B. Financial Instruments                                                    
    Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                        
  Type of            Expiration   Exercise/Con-      Number of           % of   
  financial          date         version Period/    voting rights       voting 
instrument                      Date               that may be         rights 
                                                     acquired if                
                                                     the instrument             
                                                     is exercised/con-          
verted                     
                                                                                
    Total (A+B)                                                                 
    Number of voting rights       % of voting rights                            
Below 5%                                      
9.   Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the
    financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:                  
Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and   Below 5%                                
Indirect) (Group)                                                               
Legal & General Investment Management   Below 5%                                
(Holdings) Limited (LGIMH) (Direct and                                          
Indirect)                                                                       
Legal & General Investment Management   Below 5%                                
Limited (Indirect) (LGIM)                                                       
Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) (90,566,659 - 4.53 % = LGAS, LGPL &    
PMC)                                                                            
Legal & General Investment Management   Legal & General Insurance Holdings      
(Holdings) Limited (Direct) (LGIMHD)    Limited (Direct) (LGIH)                 
(73,347,994 - 3.67 % = PMC)                                                     
Legal & General Assurance (Pensions     Legal & General Assurance Society       
Management) Limited  (PMC) (73,347,994  Limited  (LGAS & LGPL)                  
- 3.67 % = PMC)                                                                 
                                       Legal & General Pensions Limited         
                                       (Direct)  (LGPL)                         
Proxy voting                                                                
10.  Name of the proxy holder:                                                  
    N/A                                                                         
11.  Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:                   
N/A                                                                         
12.  Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:               
    N/A                                                                         
13.  Additional information:                                                    
Notification using the total voting rights figure of 1,996,069,540          
    Contact name:                                                               
14.  Helen Lewis (LGIM)                                                         
15.  Contact telephone number:                                                  
020 3124 3851                                                               
UNQUOTE                                                                         
22 December 2008                                                                
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