Cigarette paper with homogeneous visual impression

A cigarette comprising a tobacco rod and a cigarette paper which wraps the tobacco rod,

• wherein to the cigarette paper a composition is applied in form of a pattern, which has a Tamura coarseness of at most 0.22 mm,
• wherein the absolute difference in the whiteness according to ISO 2470-1 between an area of the cigarette paper to which the composition has been applied and an area of the cigarette paper to which the composition has not been applied is, in the dried state of the composition, at least 25%, and at most 60%, and
• wherein the opacity according to ISO 2471 of an area of the cigarette paper to which this composition has been applied is, in the dried state of the composition, higher than the opacity of an area to which this composition has not been applied,
• wherein the fraction of a treated area with respect to the visible area of the cigarette is at least 20% wherein a “treated area” is defined as a printed area supplemented by a virtual edge around the printed area with a width of 1.5 mm, and the “printed area” should be taken to be that area of the cigarette paper to which the composition was applied—independently of the actually used application process.

A cigarette comprising a tobacco rod and a cigarette paper which wraps the tobacco rod,

• wherein to the cigarette paper a composition is applied in form of a pattern, which has a Tamura coarseness of at most 0.22 mm,
• wherein the absolute difference in the whiteness according to ISO 2470-1 between an area of the cigarette paper to which the composition has been applied and an area of the cigarette paper to which the composition has not been applied is, in the dried state of the composition, at least 25%, and at most 60%, and
• wherein the opacity according to ISO 2471 of an area of the cigarette paper to which this composition has been applied is, in the dried state of the composition, higher than the opacity of an area to which this composition has not been applied,
• wherein the fraction of a treated area with respect to the visible area of the cigarette is at least 20% wherein a “treated area” is defined as a printed area supplemented by a virtual edge around the printed area with a width of 1.5 mm, and the “printed area” should be taken to be that area of the cigarette paper to which the composition was applied—independently of the actually used application process, and wherein the pattern is periodically repeated and the circumference of the cigarette is an integral multiple of the repeat of the pattern in the circumferential direction.