In order to evaluate the chemical quality of flue-cured tobacco comprehensively, the contents of 13 chemical components in 53 flue-cured tobacco samples were analyzed by principal component analysis with DPS (data processing system) software. Six principal components with accumulative contribution rate over 90% were obtained, also obtained were the scores of the six principal components and comprehensive scores of the tobacco samples. The Euclidian distance between the comprehensive scores was taken as a measurement of tobacco samples' diffe...