Packaging system for packaging cigarettes into bent sheets, characterised in that said system comprises: - supplying means for supplying cigarettes; - supplying means for supplying packaging sheets; - rotary collecting means for collecting said cigarettes, supplied by said supplying means, said rotary collecting means being equipped with a plurality of elongated containers adapted to house said cigarettes supplied by said supplying means, said elongated containers being operatively connected to said rotary collecting means so that the longitudinal axis (L-L) of said elongated containers is parallel to the rotation axis (R-R) of said rotary collecting means, and perpendicular to the plane of said rotary collecting means along which the plurality of elongated containers is arranged; - packaging means operatively coupled and cooperating with said rotary collecting means, and adapted to receive said packaging sheets from said supplying means and to place said packaging sheets onto said elongated containers so that the plane of the packaging sheets is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the cigarettes; - retaining means for keeping said packaging sheets onto said elongated containers, after said packaging sheets have been placed onto said elongated containers; - moving means for moving packages composed of said packaging sheets having inside said cigarettes, operatively cooperating with said rotary collecting means for moving said packages downstream; wherein said packaging means comprises: - moving means for moving at least one packaging sheet arriving from the supplying means; - at least one first pushing means adapted to move the packaging sheet from the moving means to a respective elongated container; - at least one second pushing means, equipped with at least one shaped presser element adapted to press the packaging sheet onto the elongated container to give the sheet an external shape of the container. - supplying means for supplying cigarettes; - supplying means for supplying packaging sheets; - rotary collecting means for collecting said cigarettes, supplied by said supplying means, said rotary collecting means being equipped with a plurality of elongated containers adapted to house said cigarettes supplied by said supplying means, said elongated containers being operatively connected to said rotary collecting means so that the longitudinal axis (L-L) of said elongated containers is parallel to the rotation axis (R-R) of said rotary collecting means, and perpendicular to the plane of said rotary collecting means along which the plurality of elongated containers is arranged; - packaging means operatively coupled and cooperating with said rotary collecting means, and adapted to receive said packaging sheets from said supplying means and to place said packaging sheets onto said elongated containers so that the plane of the packaging sheets is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the cigarettes; - retaining means for keeping said packaging sheets onto said elongated containers, after said packaging sheets have been placed onto said elongated containers; - moving means for moving packages composed of said packaging sheets having inside said cigarettes, operatively cooperating with said rotary collecting means for moving said packages downstream; - moving means for moving at least one packaging sheet arriving from the supplying means; - at least one first pushing means adapted to move the packaging sheet from the moving means to a respective elongated container; - at least one second pushing means, equipped with at least one shaped presser element adapted to press the packaging sheet onto the elongated container to give the sheet an external shape of the container.