Abstract: To alleviate usage demand of the high grade shortage tobacco leaves in cigarette enterprises, improve the blending proportion of the low grade non-shortage tobacco leaves, and optimize tobacco leaves inventory structure, we selected category Ⅲ cigarettes as experimental materials, changed primary cut processing from the traditional strip casing to cut strip casing, increased the proportion of low grade nonshortage tobacco leaves into the tobacco blending and the flavors of different proportions, determined and compared the quality of cigarette products processed by different treatments. The results showed that: the sensory quality and style of category Ⅲ cigarettes was strengthened and improved after primary cut processing changed from the traditional strip casing to cut strip casing, and remained stable when 5% low grade nonshortage tobacco leaves were blended into the formula, but with the high grade shortage tobacco leaves reduced, and the low grade non-shortage tobacco leaves increased, the cigarettes’sensory quality and style gradually weakened and deteriorated; by blending 15% low grade non- shortage tobacco leaves into the formula, and increasing 10% flavors, the sensory quality, physical quality and flue gas components of category Ⅲ cigarettes remained stable, but the usage proportion of high grade shortage tobacco leaves decreased by 13.1%. By applying cut strip casing technology, the cigarette industrial enterprise can reduce the blending proportion of high grade shortage tobacco leaves, improve the blending proportion of low grade non-shortage tobacco leaves, and increase the economic efficiency.