Tobacco – Antismoking product or device – i.e. – deterent
Patent
1992-01-10
1994-02-08
Millin, Vincent
Tobacco
Antismoking product or device, i.e., deterent
131359, 131369, A24F 4700
Patent
active
052841634
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a means for use as an aid to stop smoking or for use in non-smoking areas. During the last years increased attention has been brought to the very large disadvantages connected with smoking, both for the smoker's health as also for his surroundings. The dependency of smoking and tobacco products is not only connected to the content of nicotine in the products and the receipt of nicotine, but also to the psychological and social relations connected to habits and rituals in connection with smoking. The most widespread form of smoking is smoking cigarettes and cigars, by which the nicotine containing smoke is transferred directly to the blood through the lungs. Both the taste and aroma are important elements of the smoking experience, and therefore different types of tobacco with different aroma and taste are produced. On the other hand, many people are very sensitive to the aroma, and the smell of smoke may be remaining for instance in textiles for a long time.
Another kind of nicotine consumption is the use of snuff and chew tobacco. By chewing nicotine is dispensed in the mouth and is taken up by the blood in the oral cavity. This form for taking up the nicotine has been less accepted and is regarded as unaesthetic in the more urban and fashion-setting environments. The use of snuff and chew tobacco is most widespread in Scandinavia and on the North American continent.
The environmental problems and pollution problems which are connected to smoking have led to prohibition against smoking in continuously more areas and the establishment of smoke-free areas. This and also the problem of passive smoking, including in private homes, has actualized research and development of smoke-free solutions which can be used by persons dependent on nicotine. In addition there has been produced a plurality of different substitutes of cigarettes incorporating nicotine instead of tobacco, and by which the cigarette substitute is not intended to burn. However, none of these solutions have become popular on the market, and several of the proposed solutions are also complicated to produce, which is disadvantageous, especially as they are not giving any satisfactory experience of "smoking". Examples of such cigarettes may be found in the U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,676,259, 4,284,089, 4,736,755 and the European patent application No. 270738. The main principle consists in inhaling cold vapour or nicotine containing air which is dispensing nicotine to the lungs. Salts of nicotine/fluid nicotine have been used in several connections, either alone or together with tobacco.
As an aid to prevent or stop smoking, nicotine containing substances in the form of chewing gums or suction tablets have also been produced and developed. By chewing or by suction in a controlled process for preventing smoking, a chewing gum or tablet containing either 4 mg or 2 mg nicotine is used, depending on previous consume of cigarettes. These substances are based on nicotine salts and not tobacco. However, experience has shown that such a way of absorbing nicotine does not give the smoker a satisfactory effect, and it has proved that quite a lot of people stop to use chewing gum and tablets and start to smoke again.
The object of the present invention is to provide a means which can be used as substitute for smoking, or for preventing smoking, by which means the influence of the nicotine on the human body is more effective, so that the means is better adapted for use for instance as an aid to stop smoking, and which means also may be used in a smoke-free substitute for cigarettes, and can give the user the same effect of nicotine while he at the same time maintains his psychologic habits consisting in drawing on the cigarette. The means according to the invention shall thus give the smoker a real alternative also in the case he does not want to stop smoking, but where it is still desirable for his surroundings and the environment that no smoke is sent out, so as to achieve a clear improvement of the environment conditions. Examples of such are
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Knudsen Svein
Rasmussen Tor
Millin Vincent
Pierce William M.
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