Abstract: Tobacco industry technology is a technical system spanning from tobacco planting to tobacco sales. In the process from tobacco leaves to industrial technological products， its technical negative effects are continually on the rise and become the main source of harm to human health and the important object of social resistance. Tobacco industry technology is inherently characterized by the negative external technology， stubborn technical utilitarianism， industrial technology innovation under the control of stimulation and regional monopoly brought about by the local knowledge. Moreover， in the interaction between industrial technology and social culture， the cultural interchanges， hierarchical industrial ideas and political infiltration of industrial technologies in evaluating social and cultural embedding are of great significance to reexamine the social harm of the tobacco industry and to achieve the demise and transformation of the tobacco industry from the very source.

Key words: tobacco industry, industrial technology, social culture, cultural embedding