R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco

Hal E Guess

Paul Stuart Chapman

Patricia F Perfetti

Rebakah S Dunn

Ellen C Milford

Cigarettes which yield low levels of visible sidestream smoke upon use employ a paper wrapping material having about 30 weight percent calcium carbonate and about 70 weight percent flax. The paper wrapper includes a coating or a film of polymeric material and an organic filler material. A preferred polymeric material is nitrocellulose, and a preferred inorganic filler material of the coating is particulate magnesium hydroxide. The coating weighs about 0.05 to about 0.5 pound per 3,000 square feet of wrapping material.

Cigarette and paper wrapper therefor

The sidestream smoke emanated by a smoking article, such as a cigarette, can be significantly reduced by constructing the smoking article with a double wrapper, one of the wrappers having alkali metal salt burning additives in an amount in the range from about 9 to 20% by weight. A commercially feasible reduced sidestream cigarette can be produced according to this invention, having both wrappers made from a low-porosity flax base, with the inner wrapper containing 11% and the outer wrapper 6% potassium citrate.

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Kernersville, NC, United States of America

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