Method for recovery of tobacco from cigarettes with filter, characterized in that it comprises the following operation phases: - feeding of cigarettes to be treated into parallel seats (8) located in a belt conveyor (6) moving perpendicularly to said seats through following process stations, - detection of the orientation of cigarettes (2), belonging to a preset group, into their seats (8), - axial holding at the filter (4) of a first subgroup of cigarettes (2) consisting of cigarettes with filter (4) located on the same side of said conveyor (6), - blowing of a compressed air jet through the filter (4) of cigarettes (2), so held, belonging to said subgroup and collection of the tobacco ejected from the opposite end into the first collection means (60), - axial holding of the filter (4) of a second subgroup of cigarettes (2) consisting of the remaining cigarettes of the above mentioned first group, - blowing of a compressed air jet through filter (4) of cigarettes (2) belonging to the second subgroup, so held, and collection of the tobacco that was ejected from the opposite end of the cigarettes, into said first collection means (60), - removal of the emptied cigarettes belonging to said first and second subgroups from said conveyor (6) and their collection into a second collection means (68), - feeding of said conveyor with new cigarettes (2) to be treated in place of the previous ones and repetition of the cycle.