Filtered Smoking Articles

A cigarette comprising:

• (a) a tobacco rod comprising a smokable filler material contained within a circumscribing outer wrapping material, wherein the smokable filler material comprises at least about 50% by weight flue-cured tobacco based on the total dry weight of the smokable filler material;
• (b) one to about eight inner wrapping strips positioned between said tobacco rod and said outer wrapping material and extending longitudinally along said tobacco rod, each strip having a width of about 2 to about 10 mm and comprising a tobacco material, said tobacco material being predominately burley tobacco;
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• (c) a filter element connected to the tobacco rod, said filter element having an end proximal to the tobacco rod and an end distal from the tobacco rod, said filter element comprising (i) a first longitudinally extending section of fibrous tow filter material positioned at the end of the filter element proximal to the tobacco rod;
• (ii) a second longitudinally extending section of fibrous tow filter material positioned at the end of the filter element distal from the tobacco rod and spaced apart from said first section of filter material, the two sections of filter material defining a compartment therebetween;
• and (iii) a granular mixture of a general adsorbent material and an ion exchange resin contained within said compartment.