Philip Morris USA Inc.

Altria Client Services LLC

Afton Chemical Corporation

Philip Morris Products S.a.

Randall Eugene Baren

Firooz Rasouli

Peter J Lipowicz

Timothy Scott Sherwood

Ping Li

Marc Rose

Szu-Sung Yang

Milton E Parrish

Donald E Miser

Tony A Phan

Rajesh K Garg

Darin Colassaco

Munmaya K Mishra

William R Sweeney

Feng Gao

Shalva Gedevanishvili

Shengsheng Liu

Qinglin Li

Salem Chouchane

Dongmei Xu

James A Strickland

Mohammad R Hajaligol

Mark Thomas Devlin

Zhaohua Luan

Tze-Chi Jao

Samuel Harry Tersigni

Jeffery S Edmiston

Yahya Kargalioglu

Tze Chi Jao

Marc W Fariss

Rajesh Garg

Marc W Rose

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

The method includes first adding at least one first chelator to smokeless tobacco, second adding at least one first antioxidant to the smokeless tobacco, the at least one first antioxidant being different than the at least one first chelator, and third adding at least one first flavorant to the smokeless tobacco, wherein the first adding occurs before the third adding.

Method of treating smokeless tobacco

A soft, chewable and orally dissolvable and/or disintegrable product includes a biopolymer-sugar based matrix and botanical powder dispersed throughout the biopolymer-sugar based matrix. The biopolymer-sugar based matrix includes at least one biopolymer, at least one sugar and optional additives. Soft, chewable and orally dissolvable and/or disintegrable product can also include flavor beads.

Soft, chewable and orally dissolvable and/or disintegrable products

A smoking article having a tobacco rod, which is adapted to produce mainstream smoke, and a filter attached to said tobacco rod. A permeable wrapping paper circumscribes the tobacco rod and the filter. The filter has an upstream end portion and a downstream end portion, and includes a flow restricting segment of smoke impermeable material, which includes at least one open flow passage therethrough to deliver mainstream smoke, and a cavity downstream of the flow restricting segment. The smoking article also includes at least one ventilation zone upstream of the flow restricting segment.

Smoking articles with significantly reduced gas vapor phase smoking constituents

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Glen Allen, VA, United States of America

Randall Eugene Baren