Abstract Tobacco is chewed in the form of snuff and thus its radioactivity if any goes directly into the body. Besides normal smoking, in which case Po 210 being volatile at this temperature goes inside the body, the tobacco is also smoked in reverse manner in the form of “Chutta”, an indigenously prepared cigar made from home grown plants of Nicotinia tobacum in South East coastal towns and villages of India. The burnt residue and the radioactive element if any in this case also will go directly in the body causing hazardous effect. The uranium traces has been determined in commercially available samples of snuff, chutta, bidi and cigarette tobacco using SSNTD technique. The analysis shows that uranium vary from 7.4 to 19.1 ppm in snuff, 0.16 to 0.37 ppm in chutta, 0.13 to 0.23 ppm in bidi and .037 to 0.12 ppm in cigarette tobacco.