Reduced ignition propensity smoking article

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2005-01-04

2005-01-04

Walls, Dionne A. (Department: 1731)

Tobacco

Tobacco or tobacco substitute product or component part thereof

Cigar or cigarette

C131S349000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06837248

ABSTRACT:
A smoking article having reduced ignition propensity is disclosed. The smoking article includes a tobacco column, a wrapper surrounding the tobacco column and a filter element. The wrapper has a base permeability, an untreated area and a least one discrete area treated with a composition to reducing the base permeability. The discretely treated area interacts with a coal of a burning tobacco firecone as it advances to self-extinguish the smoking article. The composition of the treated area includes a permeability reducing substance, a burn rate retarding substance and a burn rate accelerating substance. Either the burn rate retarding substance or the burn rate accelerating substance acts as an organoleptic enhancing substance. In this way a smoker's experience when smoking either the at least one treated area or the untreated area is substantially the same.

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