Flavor carrier for use in smoking articles
AssigneePhilip Morris USA Inc.
InventorsZhaohua Luan, Diane Gee, Jay Fournier, Kent Koller, Jose Nepomuceno
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Abstract
Flavor carriers, smoking articles, method of making flavor carriers, methods of making smoking articles, methods of flavoring gas streams such as mainstream tobacco smoke and methods of smoking are provided. The flavor carriers and smoking articles comprise a mesoporous molecular sieve and a flavor releasably disposed within the sieve.
Claims36
1-91. (canceled)
A flavor carrier comprising:
- a mesoporous molecular sieve;
- and
- a flavor releasably disposed within the sieve.
A smoking article having enhanced flavor comprising (i) a rod of tobacco, and (ii) a flavor carrier, wherein the flavor carrier comprises a mesoporous molecular sieve having a flavor releasably disposed within the sieve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.