Philip Morris USA Inc.

Philip Morris Products S.a.

Philip Morris Inc.

Illinois Institute of Technology

Altria Client Services LLC

Firooz Rasouli

Ping Li

Mohammad R Hajaligol

Peter J Lipowicz

Timothy Scott Sherwood

Randall Eugene Baren

Tony A Phan

Marc Rose

Szu-Sung Yang

Milton E Parrish

Donald E Miser

Rajesh K Garg

Shahryar Rabiei

Wei-Jun Zhang

Shalva Gedevanishvili

Mark Zhuang

Khaled Saoud

Gianluca Sechi

John F Cunningham

Budda V Reddy

Hamid Arastoopour

David E Sharpe

Jon A Regrut

Clive Scorey

Celine Gambs

Ramkuber Yadav

Ali Oskouie

James Pflueger

Weijun Zhang

Carlos Andres Sanchez

Yezdi B Pithawalla

Zhaohua Luan

Darin Colassaco

Bruce E Waymack

Antonio Tuzzolino

Bruce Waymack

Hector Alonso

John R Tilley

Irfan Gunduz

Andrey Bagreev

Shiv N Khanna

John McKernan

Rajesh Garg

Don E Miser

Joe Yousef Mohajer

Tracy L Madison

Marc W Rose

Carlos Andrés Sanchez

Joe Mohajer

John Hearn

Wrapper for cigarette manufacture includes transversely extending band regions applied by a printing technique, such as gravure printing. The band regions comprise starch, an anti-wrinkling agent such as 1,2 propylene glycol or glycerin, and optionally calcium carbonate. Any suitable printing technique can be used to apply the aqueous solution to the banded regions. The pattern of banded regions may be bands, stripes, two-dimensional arrays, undulated regions, and the like along and/or around the tobacco rod. The pattern can be applied in one or more layers. The pattern may be configured so that when a smoking article is placed on a substrate, at least two longitudinal locations along the length of the tobacco rod have film-forming compound located only on sides of the smoking article not in contact with the substrate.

Banded papers, smoking articles and methods

Filters and cigarettes include an activated carbon sorbent capable of selectively removing nitric oxide from mainstream tobacco smoke. Methods for making cigarette filters and cigarettes using the activated carbon sorbent and methods for treating mainstream tobacco smoke produced by smoking a cigarette comprising the sorbent are also provided.

Cigarettes and cigarette filters including activated carbon for removing nitric oxide

A smoking article () comprising a rod () of smokable material with a mouth end () and a distal end () remote from the mouth end (). The rod () comprises at least a first and a second segment (), wherein the first segment () has a distal end defining the distal end of the rod and the second segment () is disposed downstream of the first segment. The smoking article further comprises a mouthpiece (), which is attached to the mouth end () of the rod (), wherein the first segment () comprises a first tobacco blend with a first level of a smoke constituent inhibitor and the second segment () comprises a second tobacco blend with a second level of the smoke constituent inhibitor, wherein the second level of the smoke constituent inhibitor is lower than the first level.

Multi-segment smoking article

A liquid tobacco composition comprises tobacco dissolved in an ionic liquid. Removal of selected tobacco constituents is aided by dissolving the tobacco in the ionic liquid. The tobacco, having selected constituents removed, may be regenerated from the liquid tobacco composition by separating the tobacco from the ionic liquid.

Liquid tobacco composition

A smoking article () comprising a rod () of smokable material with a mouth end () and a distal end () remote from the mouth end (). The rod () comprises at least a first and a second segment (), wherein the first segment () has a distal end defining the distal end of the rod () and the second segment () is disposed downstream of the first segment. The smoking article further comprises a mouthpiece (), which is attached to the mouth end () of the rod (), wherein the first segment () comprises a first tobacco blend with a first level of a smoke constituent and the second segment () comprises a second tobacco blend with a second level of the smoke constituent, wherein the second level of the smoke constituent is lower than the first level.

A smoking article () incorporates a tobacco substrate including tobacco having a tobacco density of 150 mg/cmor less and a hardness of 60% or greater. The tobacco substrate can include a tobacco aerogel ().

Tobacco substrate

A smoking article () incorporates a mouthpiece (), the mouthpiece includes an open pore structure converted from an organic gel and a functional material dispersed in the open pore structure, such as aerogel particles ().

Smoking article mouthpiece including aerogel

A handheld hydrosol delivery device includes a canister which is at least partially filled with a liquid formulation of one or more liquids and optional particles, and one or more propellants where at least one of the liquids, propellants, particles and combinations thereof is a flavor; a pressure valve which expels at least a portion of the liquid formulation and at least a portion of the propellant from the canister while dispersing the propellant into the liquid formulation forming a consumable flavored hydrosol comprising one or more gases dispersed within the liquid formulation, through a nozzle delivering the hydrosol to a user.

Hydrosol based flavor delivery device

Cigarettes and cigarette components such as tobacco cut filler and cigarette paper, and methods for making cigarette components are provided that comprise nanostructured fibrils. The nanostructured fibrils, which can be formed and deposited in situ on tobacco cut filler and/or cigarette paper by laser vaporization controlled condensation or chemical reaction, are capable of acting as an oxidant for the conversion of carbon monoxide carbon dioxide and/or as a catalyst for the conversion of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. Cigarettes are provided that comprise tobacco cut filler and cigarette paper, wherein nanostructured fibrils are deposited on, or incorporated in, at least one of the tobacco cut filler and cigarette paper.

Cigarettes and cigarette components containing nanostructured fibril materials

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Firooz Rasouli