Smoking rod wrapper

A method of producing a wrapper for a smoking rod, the method comprising screen printing onto the surface of the wrapper, a series of discrete dots of an ink containing a hydrophilic vehicle, a thickening agent, a filler, and a stable nicotine salt, the printing extending over a selected area of the wrapper to provide a greater deposition of the ink adjacent to that end of the wrapper which will be the lit end in use.

A smoking rod of the kind comprising a filler of smoking material surrounded by a combustible tubular wrapper, the improvement wherein the filler is upgraded by the provision on the inner surface of the wrapper of a screen printed deposition of a series of discrete dots of an ink containing at least one additive selected from the group consisting of a smoke producing agent, a smoke nucleation agent, a flavouring agent, and a physiologically active agent, which will in use, upon approach of the hot burning tip of the smoking rod, be transferred and contribute to the main stream smoke drawn through the rod to enhance the satisfaction to the smoker, wherein the dots are printed over a selected area of the wrapper to provide a greater concentration of the additive at that end of the rod to be the lit end of the rod.