Provided are a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a burn spread suppressing cigarette which does not scorch a combustible material heavily at all or not scorch the combustible material heavily even if it scorch the material while the cigarette is burned and is left on the combustible material, because the burn of the cigarette is ceased by a burn control agent or, the hear of burn controlled by the agent is spread into the material. The burn spread suppressing cigarette manufacturing apparatus includes a unit (30, 30') which forms burn control agent coated regions on a web (20a) of a wrapping paper transferred by a wrapping paper transfer unit (18) at a plurality of positions, which are apart from each other in the longitudinal direction or in the width direction of the web, a unit (14) which supplies chopped tobacco leaves to the wrapping paper after formation of the burn control agent coated regions, a roll-up unit (23) which rolls up the wrapping paper (20a, 20a') on which the chopped tobacco leaves are supplied, and a cigarette cutting unit (28) which cuts the rolled-up wrapping paper together with the chopped tobacco leaves in a predetermined length of the cigarette in the longitudinal direction thereof.