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Eighty eight tobacco samples from six provinces in China, of which the contents of rare earth elements (REEs) were determined by microwave digestion-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry method. A fuzzy clustering method, fuzzy cmeans (FCM), was used for classification of the different kinds of tobaccos based on their contents of REEs. The results show that FCM clustering analysis is a valid method for classification of tobaccos to some extent. The relationship between the contents of REEs in tobaccos and the geographical origins is also confirmed.