Cigarette
AssigneeR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
InventorsThomas W. Brown, Glenn E. Creamer, William R. Cook, Alan B. Norman, Jerry W. Lawson, Barry L. Saintsing
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Abstract
A cigarette comprises a blend of tobacco materials. The blend includes volume expanded flue-cured tobacco cut filler and a reconstituted tobacco material in cut filler form. The reconstituted tobacco material includes calcium carbonate and tobacco parts which are formed into a sheet-like shape using a papermaking process. The cigarette can include a filter element provided from a non-woven polypropylene web, glycerin and a water soluble tobacco extract. Such a cigarette can generate low levels of visible sidestream smoke.
Claims16
A cigarette having a charge of smokable material contained in a circumscribing paper wrapping material, the cigarette comprising:
- (a) the paper wrapping material having a cellulosic base web containing an inorganic filler;
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- (b) the smokable material such that greater than about 70 weight percent thereof is a blend of (i) volume expanded tobacco filler, and (ii) a reconstituted tobacco filler including about 20 to about 70 parts inorganic filler, about 30 to about 80 parts extracted tobacco material and tobacco extract.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.