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US 6,164,287 AGranted
Smoking method
AssigneeR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
InventorJackie Lee White
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Abstract
A smoking article which employs tobacco as a source of smoke and flavor, but which does not burn the tobacco; the smoking article including a tobacco tablet, a heat conductor in contact with the tablet and a source of heat which heats the conductor in contact with the tablet to a pre-selected temperature for generating smoke. The invention also relates to a formed tobacco tablet for use in the smoking article.
Claims6
A method of smoking, comprising
- a. heating compressed tobacco powder at a substantially constant temperature to produce smoke;
- b. the temperature being between 250.degree. C. and a temperature which is the maximum temperature to which the tobacco can be exposed without producing Ames activity, and
- c. delivering the resulting smoke to a smoker;
- wherein the compressed tobacco powder is in the form of a tablet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.