SUMMARY
During the last two decades, a growing interest in scientific reasearch of the tobacco plant has been noticed, mainly concerning the chemical compounds which form the quality elements of this plant (flavour, streght, taste, spicy taste, bitterness, etc).This work is aimed at establishing the impact of the edafic factor (the soil) on some of the chemical compounds (total reducing substances, total reducing sugars, reducing sugars, albumines, total azote, total volatile basis, ash and Smuck quality index) in the dreid tobacco leaf in order to obtain high quality cigarettes with superior economic characteristics. The Virginia tobacco plant obtained in Am?r??ti and Calafat area was subject to scientific research conducted in 2007.