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The large leaf tobaccos (Virginia and Burley) produced in our country have definite characteristic distinguished it more or less in comparison to typical famous and world known tobaccos of this type. The aim of present investigation is to determine quality level tobaccos of the same variety, produced in different areas of our country and to make comparison to some countries typical producers. Tobaccos type Virginia variety V 454 and type Burley variety 1317 were analyzed in respect of: tobacco chemical composition, tobacco smoke chemical composition and physical indexes. The spectrophotometric assessment “take down of image” was made of Virginia tobacco. The results of comparative assessment of Virginia tobacco show that essential differences haven’t in respect of quality between it, but the tobacco from Byala Slatina area is with better quality. The Bulgarian tobaccos (Virginia and Burley)have comparatively good quality in comparison to large leaf tobaccos from countries typical producers, but it defer to some indexes – lower nicotine content, higher sugar content and higher values of number overall nitrogen/nicotine.