Abstract: Cigarette manufacturing method and machine with short tobacco distribution control, whereby the long and short tobacco in a mass of shredded tobacco is separated and fed along different routes to a belt supplying a continuous cigarette rod manufacturing unit; the short tobacco being fed through two containers arranged in line and communicating with each other through an adjustable-section opening, the first of the containers being a storage tank and the second a tank having an essentially constant tobacco level and from which the short tobacco flows out in proportion to the speed of the belt.