The presence of trace metals in cigarettes offers potential source of information from a forensic and criminological point of view, which deals with the determination and classification of tobacco brands, with the aim of differentiating legal brands from smuggled brands. Therefore, this work aimed to develop and validate methods for determining the metallic content present in cigarettes, in order to assess the feasibility of discrimination between different brands, analyzing cigarettes after the process of calcination and acid digestion. These methods include chemical analysis by spectrometric techniques (CV-AAS, ICP-OES and DRC-ICPMS) and subsequent data interpretation by PCA (Principal Component Analysis) and HCA (Hierarchical Cluster Analysis). The concentration of metals and semimetals (As, Ba, B, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Mn, Hg Ni, Sr and Zn) were studied for ten different brands of cigarettes, obtained in tobacconists and local stores, representing the brands most consumed in the country. The analysis of PCA indicated the presence of four principal components that together explained more than 80 percent of the variability of the sample data. These results proved the existence of significant differences between tobacco brands in their elemental content, allowing the differentiation between illegal brands and legalized brands and the grouping of legal brands according to the tobacco companies to which they belong, being corroborated by the HCA performed by the average link distance method (UPGMA). The moisture content, total ash and pH of each brand were also determined, however they did not contribute effectively to the differentiation between the brands studied. The HCA used for the interpretation of possible similarities between the elements, and interpreted together with Pearson s linear correlation test indicated similarities between the elements Ba, Sr, in addition to indicating the proximity between the Mn and the Cd. Clusters between Fe and Zn with Sr and Co with Mn were also detected.