Tobacco product containing side stream smoke flavorant
AssigneeP. H. Glatfelter Company
Inventor; Joe N. Herron
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Abstract
A tobacco product wrapper containing a glycoside comprising an acetyl of a carbohydrate and an aromatic agent or a derivative thereof. The glycoside flavors or masks the side stream smoke while substantially not altering the taste or flavor characteristics of the tobacco or mainstream smoke.
Claims34
A tobacco product wrapper containing a flavorant glycoside comprising an acetal of a carbohydrate and an aromatic agent or derivative thereof, said flavorant having substantially no aroma below the temperatures at which it pyrolyzes to produce said aromatic agent or derivative thereof, said flavorant being of a character and present in said wrapper in an amount such that during smoldering of said tobacco product which produces a sidestream smoke, said smoldering pyrolyzes said flavorant to release said aromatic agent or derivative thereof which masks the offensive odor of said sidestream smoke and does not significantly transfer to the mainstream smoke produced during smoking of said tobacco product, thereby producing a mainstream of smoke which is not substantially flavored or masked by said aromatic agent or derivative thereof.
An article comprising a tobacco product enclosed in a wrapper and adapted for smoking wherein said wrapper contains a flavorant glycoside comprising an acetal of a carbohydrate and an aromatic agent or derivative thereof, said flavorant having substantially no aroma below the temperature at which it pyrolyzes to produce said aromatic agent or derivative thereof, said flavorant being of a character and present in said wrapper in an amount such that during smoldering of said tobacco product which produces a sidestream smoke, said smoldering pyrolyzes said flavorant to release said aromatic agent or derivative thereof which masks the offensive odor of said sidestream smoke and does not significantly transfer to the mainstream smoke produced during smoking of said tobacco product, thereby producing a mainstream of smoke which is not substantially flavored or masked by said aromatic agent or derivative thereof.
The article of 17 wherein said carbohydrate is a saccharide.
The article of claim wherein said glycoside comprises an acetal of a carbohydrate and ethyl vanillin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.