The invention discloses a measuring method for quickly measuring the contents of heavy metals in tobacco by using a microwave digestion / ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) method. According to the measuring method, a microwave digestion pretreatment method is adopted, an ICP-MS is adopted to measure the contents of arsenic, plumbum, cadmium, chromium, copper, zinc, nickel and mercury elements in a digestion liquid, 75As, 208Pb, 111Cd, 53Cr, 63Cu, 66Zn, 60Ni and 202Hg are selected as mass numbers of the to-be-measured elements to reduce mass spectrum interference, and an internal standard element Rh is added in an off-line manner to inhibit the matrix effect. For to-be-measured ions with a certain mass-to-charge ratio, mass spectrum signal response is directly proportional to the number of ions entering the ICP-MS, the concentration of the elements in a sample is measured by measuring the number of mass spectrum signals, and the contents of the elements are calculated by a standard curve method. The method is quick and simple, can efficiently and accurately measure the contents of heavy metals in tobacco and tobacco products, and provides an effective scheme for finding out the content level of heavy metals in cigarettes in China to reduce harm to human health.