Abstract: Currently, academia often equated the tobacco production to tobacco cultivation, while ignoring the value of old tobacco industry and the special significance. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, along with the extensive development of tobacco planting, the old system of tobacco industry started to produce, and gradually formed a "national distribution, the distribution characteristics of regional focus". Cross regional wide circulation, so that some parts of the old system of tobacco industry in the formation of regional specialized production center, and formation of a large number of famous brand cigarette. In the machine of cigarette industry and manual cigarette industry under the double blow, the old tobacco industry did not quickly quit the stage of history, but in the period of Anti-Japanese War reached its peak, and in 1949 after persistence. In old China tobacco industry, because of its special attributes of the products and handicraft industry in modern form, in the transformation process of showing a more diverse state, still we need further analysis and research.