Abstract: To investigate the content variance of characteristic aroma components in flue-cured tobacco from different areas, six kinds of aroma components of flue-cured tobacco samples from 8 tobacco production areas of China were analyzed with GC/MS method and the determined data were adopted in variance analysis. The results showed that: (1) the contents of neutral aroma components of flue-cured tobacco differed to a certain extent among different production areas, the contents of characteristic aroma components of flue-cured tobacco showed no obvious convergence among the production areas of the same flavor type tobacco, but there were still rules to follow; (2) the contents of surface secretion degradation products, alcohol aroma substances, as well as other aroma substances in the leaves from fresh flavor style tobacco production areas were higher than that in the leaves from full and medium flavor style tobacco production areas; (3) Weining, a typical fresh flavor style tobacco production area, had the highest contents of surface secretion degradation products and alcohol aroma substances; moreover, Weining had three maximum content values in these six kinds of aroma components, which made it the top one among these 8 production areas.