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Tobacco growing is a complicated, lengthy and requires many chemical treatments. To ensure the safety of consumers of tobacco products is necessary to regularly monitor pesticide residues in this matrix. To monitor widely used plant protection products is necessary to develop an analytical method for determination of broad-spectrum pesticides in tobacco. This paper presents a fast and simple gas chromatographic method for determining 151 active substances in tobacco samples. Recoveries of fortified samples at three concentration levels were within 70–113% for most of the analyzed compounds. The method allows the determination of very low concentration levels (0.01 mg/kg) and has been applied to routine analysis.