A “fishtail” chimney was used to confine and direct cigarette smoke to an impaction trap followed by 3 MCE filters for smoke collection. The smoke condensate collected at the first two collection stages (chimney and impactor) was prepared as Triton X-100 slurry samples and the MCE filters (third collection stage) used to collect smoke were micro- wave digested. TS-FF-AAS has been proven as a reliable technique for the determination of Cd in tobacco smoke condensate. It provides suffi- cient sensitivity, accuracy and reproducibility. The average total con- centration of Cd in the smoke of Brazilian and Paraguayan cigarettes tested was 232 and 236 ng/cigarette, respectively. Although cigarettes made from tobacco grown in different geographical regions or under different agricultural conditions should generate different levels in the smoke, the variation between the concentrations of Cd in the smoke condensate of Paraguayan and Brazilian cigarettes was small.