Thermally Conductive Tobacco Composition, Method for Providing the Tobacco Composition, and Use

Abstract

A heat-conducting tobacco composition comprising at least one sort of tobacco in at least one confectioning of the tobacco for smoking tobacco consumption. The heat-conducting tobacco composition is configured or designed as a tobacco article for at least one smoking article selected from the following group: dry tobacco article for cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars, semi-dry tobacco article for smoking tobacco pipes, moist tobacco article for water pipes; wherein the heat-conducting tobacco composition further comprises at least one metallic, in particular noble metallic component which performs a physical heat-conducting function during smoking, in particular when exposed to heat by ember/glow or by heating elements of the smoking article, and which is chemically inert at least in the temperature range required for smoking, and which is admixed to the tobacco and distributed in the tobacco composition in such a way that the heat distribution within the tobacco composition is homogenized during smoking.

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