No, you need to apply for a tobacco license before you can apply for a tobacco business license. It is not allowed to apply for a tobacco license when there is no tobacco on the business license, and the business scope cannot be exceeded.
Where Chinese laws stipulate that citizens, legal persons or other organizations are engaged in the production, wholesale, retail, import and export and other businesses of tobacco monopoly commodities, they shall apply to the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau for a tobacco monopoly license according to law.
Where a unit without the status of a legal person to which a legal person belongs receives a license for a tobacco monopoly production enterprise or a license for a tobacco monopoly wholesale enterprise separately, the legal person unit to which the legal person belongs shall apply to the relevant tobacco monopoly bureau and submit the relevant application materials.
Legal basis
Article 8 of the Measures for the Administration of Tobacco Monopoly Licenses, citizens, legal persons or other organizations engaged in the production, wholesale, retail, import and export and other businesses of tobacco monopoly commodities shall apply to the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau for a tobacco monopoly license according to law. Where a unit without the status of a legal person to which a legal person belongs receives a license for a tobacco monopoly production enterprise or a license for a tobacco monopoly wholesale enterprise separately, the legal person unit to which the legal person belongs shall apply to the relevant tobacco monopoly bureau and submit the relevant application materials.