Flavor carrier for use in smoking articles
AssigneePhilip Morris USA Inc.
InventorsZhaohua Luan, Diane L. Gee, Jay A Fournier, Kent B. Koller, Jose G. Nepomuceno
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Abstract
Flavor carriers, smoking articles, method of making flavor carriers, methods of making smoking articles, methods of flavoring gas streams such as mainstream tobacco smoke and methods of smoking are provided. The flavor carriers and smoking articles comprise a mesoporous molecular sieve and a flavor releasably disposed within the sieve.
Claims15
A smoking article having enhanced flavor comprising (i) a rod of tobacco, (ii) a flavor carrier comprising a mesoporous molecular sieve having a substantially uniform pore size of about 50 to 60 Å, and (iii)menthol as a flavor releasably disposed within said mesoporous molecular sieve, wherein said menthol is substantially encapsulated within the pores of said mesoporous molecular sieve with a water-soluble encapsulation material, and said water-soluble encapsulation material is adapted to dissolve and to release said menthol as a flavor to tobacco smoke upon contact with water vapor present in smoke formed during the smoking of said smoking article.
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