Abstract: In order to screen habitual smoking behavior of cigarette consumers in Guangdong Province, the behavior parameters from different smokers smoking different types of cigarettes were obtained via an in-situ smoking behavior recorder. The results showed that the smoking behavior of smokers had following patterns:1) A compensatory puffing behavior was noted in smokers who smoked unfamiliar cigarette samples, except for those who were used to smoke low tar cigarettes. 2) With the decrease in labelled tar delivery of their habitual cigarettes, both the puff number and puff volume took by the smokers were gradually reduced, and the total volume of smoke inhaled was decreased greatly for a single cigarette. Therefore the total volume of smoke inhaled by low tar cigarette smokers were found to be lower than that of medium/high tar cigarette smokers. 3) The smokers of low tar, low nicotine cigarettes and blended-type cigarettes had similar smoking behavior with less puff numbers, i.e., short puff durations, high flow rates and low puff volume; and the total volume of smoke inhaled by them for a single cigarette was lower. 4) There were differences in smoking behavior among different types of smokers, the total volume of smoke inhaled by female smokers, low age smokers and medium smoking degree smokers for a single cigarette total was among the lowest.