Tobacco and Tobacco Products Institute-Plovdiv, 4108 Markovo, Republic Bulgaria

e-mail: stkirkova@abv.bg

The European commission community highlights the importance of development for the standards of tobacco products control including the cigarettes. Pipe tobacco has not been under any control and surveillance yet. Thus, there is a lack of information, methods and apparatus for observing the emissions of harmful substances in smoke. There is also a lack of established conditions, rules and any control. The purpose of this research is to discover the importance and essence of modern types of pipe tobacco, the level of preference and possibilities for their control. The first preliminary studies of pipe tobacco provide direction for further research as there is a high possibility for increasing their consumption.