What didn't change was the factory's mission to bolster the government's finances. Production records from 1959 show that the factory produced 5.8 billion cigarettes and 430,000 cigars that year, which equaled half of total provincial demand. Production value peaked in 1987 at NT $ 21 billion.
日治後期，菸的專賣收入占全台經常性歲入的六分之一，到了國府菸酒公賣局時代，松山菸廠的貢獻有增無減，1959 年的紀錄是年產捲菸 58 億支、雪茄 43 萬支，獨佔全省總產量的半數；1987 年產量達到最高峰，創造了台幣 210 億元的年產值。