Abstract: In order to grasp the status of scientific research data in the tobacco industry, a survey was conducted by questionnaire combined with site visit. The results indicated that the industrial enterprises, commercial enterprises and scientific research institutes in the tobacco industry had all owned considerable scientific research data, because the differences between the data owners in the business works and data management, their research data were quite different in terms of data type, volume and increasing rate. The problems in the scientific research data management, such as lack of unified standards and irregular data storage, had affected data sharing within the industry. In view of that, some suggestions were put forward in the aspects of institutional guarantee, idea popularization, data standardization, scope of data sharing, data service, data publication, etc. The results of this study provide supports for the promotion of scientific data sharing in the tobacco industry.