Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation

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David S Roth

Carl B Jenkins

Dorothy M Frank

Paul L Aulbach

Denis M Boyle

William H Cowart, Jr

The present invention relates to tobacco and more particularly to a process for preparing a moist snuff product and the stabilization thereof to reduce the level of microflora bacteria and to provide normal tasting products with extended shelf-lives.

Sterilization process in the manufacturing of snuff

A cigarette wrapping paper includes a plurality of rows of perforations extending across the width of the paper wherein the rows of perforations are spaced at preselected distances along the entire length of the paper.

Cigarette paper

Tobacco substitutes which eliminate excessive blooming of cigarette ash are disclosed. The tobacco substitutes comprise an organic binder; an inorganic filler; a boric oxide, boron oxyacid, or boron oxyacid salt; ash stabilizer; and, as a bloom control agent, from about 10% to about 40% by weight of tobacco fines. The substitute may also include up to about 10% by weight of a burning rate accelerator, such as sodium nitrate, sodium citrate or potassium tartrate.

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Louisville, KY, United States of America

David S Roth