Philip Morris USA Inc.

Philip Morris Inc.

Altria Client Services LLC

Ashok H Solanky

Robert E Lee

Susan E Wrenn

Gerd Kobal

Charles Lester Dendy

Peter J Lipowicz

William R Sweeney

Rangaraj S Sundar

Henry M Dante

Srinivasan Janardhan

William J Crowe

Robert L Ripley

David E Sharpe

John M Campbell

Tomonori Sakamoto

Brett W Stevenson

John Louis Felter

Marc R Chemla

Masato Sano

Seiichi Kawakami

Pamela Davis

Mark R Chemla

Clint Blake

Mark E Watson

A flavor delivery system includes an oral tobacco product and a flavor inhalation article. The oral tobacco product includes tobacco and a first flavorant. The flavor inhalation article includes a body having an air flow channel therethrough, and a second flavorant.

Flavor delivery system

A virtual or augmented reality smoking system is provided herein. A smoker using the system can experience a virtual reality of smoking by puffing on a cigarette shaped article and experiencing the taste or aroma from the article while simultaneously viewing a generated image of a burning cigarette and exhaled and sidestream smoke. Additionally, the room environment may be simulated to give the experience of smoking in a setting of the smoker's choice (virtual reality) or the image of a burning cigarette and smoke may be superimposed on a live or natural image of the smoker's environment (augmented reality).

Virtual reality smoking system

Lighter

An electrically heated cigarette smoking device includes a heater unit, heater blades for applying heat to portions of a cigarette that is supported within the heater unit, the heater unit having an opening adapted to receive an end of a cigarette and adapted to position the end of the cigarette in proximity to the heater blades, and the heater unit defining at least part of a suction flow passage through which ambient air is drawn into contact with the cigarette when a smoker draws on the cigarette positioned in the heater unit. The heater unit is mounted within a partition that positions the heater unit relative to the housing and at least partially defines a bypass flow passage in fluid communication with ambient air surrounding the housing, the partition further defining a flow diverting passage leading from the bypass flow passage to the suction flow passage and through which ambient air is drawn from the bypass flow passage when a smoker puffs on a cigarette inserted in the heater unit opening. A flow sensor is positioned in the flow diverting passage to provide a signal indicative of a smoker taking a puff on the cigarette.

Electrically heated cigarette smoking system with internal manifolding for puff detection

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Mechanicsville, VA, United States of America

Ashok H Solanky