A hand-held pneumatic cigarette picker belongs to the technical field of semi-automatic cigarette sorting devices, and particularly relates to a hand-held pneumatic cigarette picker which comprises a support, a manual control pneumatic component and a handle, wherein the manual control pneumatic component and the handle are arranged on one side of the support; the support comprises a left cigarette clamping plate, a right cigarette clamping plate and a supporting plate; the upper middle part of the left cigarette clamping plate is movably connected with the left end of the supporting plate; the upper end of the right cigarette clamping is fixedly connected with the right end of the supporting plate; the pneumatic component and the handle are arranged on the upper side of the supporting plate; and the bottom end of the pneumatic component is fixed on the left side of the supporting plate, and the top end of the pneumatic component is fixed with the upper end of the left cigarette clamping plate. Therefore, defects that a worker becomes tired easily and the work efficiency is low in the prior art are overcome. The hand-held pneumatic cigarette picker has the advantages that the work intensity of the worker is low, the work efficiency is high, cigarette dropping and scattering can be avoided easily, and the like.