An assembly for producing rod-shaped smokers' articles provided with filters, in particular filter cigarettes, having a distributor unit, which comprises a supply apparatus for supplying tobacco material and a delivery apparatus (18, 20, 22) for delivering the tobacco material for forming tobacco filler rods (90a, 90b), a filler rod unit arranged downstream of the distributor unit which comprises at least two paths (I, II), extending substantially next to one another, for receiving and/or forming tobacco filler rods (90a, 90b) from the tobacco material delivered by the distributor unit, a tobacco wrapping means for wrapping the tobacco filler rods (90a, 90b) with tobacco wrapping material, preferably wrapping paper, a tobacco filler rod cutting apparatus for cutting the wrapped tobacco filler rods (90a, 90b) into discrete wrapped tobacco rods (91a, 91b) of specific final lengths and a delivery apparatus for delivering the wrapped tobacco rods (91a, 91b), in which transport means (78, 79) are provided for receiving, repeatedly in turn over all the paths (I, II), one wrapped tobacco rod (91a, 91b) in each case from one path and onwardly transporting the tobacco rods (91a, 91b) substantially transversely of their longitudinal extent at a specific distance from one another, a filter application unit arranged downstream of the filler rod unit for connecting the wrapped tobacco rods (91a, 91b) taken from the transport means (78, 79) of the delivery apparatus of the filler rod unit with filter rods, the filter application unit comprising a filter arranging apparatus for arranging a filter rod at the end of at least one wrapped tobacco rod in a substantially rectilinear orientation, a filter wrapping material feed apparatus for supplying filter wrapping material, in particular tipping paper, a filter wrapping material gluing apparatus for applying adhesive to the filter wrapping material and a filter wrapping apparatus for wrapping at least one portion of the at least one wrapped tobacco rod and of the filter rod, in the arrangement consisting of the at least one wrapped tobacco rod and the filter rod, in the wrapping material provided with adhesive, characterised in that the distributor unit and the filler rod unit are configured for optional activation of just one path (for example I) and deactivation of the other path(s) (for example II) and thus for single-path operation, in order to form a tobacco filler rod in just one path (for example I) and produce the wrapped tobacco rods therefrom, the filter wrapping material feed apparatus and the filter wrapping material gluing apparatus of the filter application unit are configured, in single-path operation, to process filter wrapping material of a length (L 2) which is greater in comparison to activation of all the paths and thus in comparison to multi-path operation, and the filter wrapping apparatus of the filter application unit is configured to arrange the filter wrapping material provided with adhesive in more than one full wrap jointly on the at least one portion of the at least one wrapped tobacco rod and of the filter rod in the arrangement consisting of the at least one wrapped tobacco rod and the filter rod, and the distributor unit, the filler rod unit and the filter application unit are configured to operate, in single-path operation, at a processing speed provided for multi-path operation.