R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Wayne Allen Scott

Serban C Moldoveanu

Daniel Verdin Cantrell

Dwayne William Beeson

Jerry Wayne Marshall

A smokeless tobacco product configured for insertion into the mouth of a user of the product is provided, the smokeless tobacco product including a dissolvable or meltable base composition admixed with a tobacco material and a botanical material, wherein the botanical material is present in an amount of at least about 0.1% of the total dry weight of the smokeless tobacco product. The botanical material and the smokeless tobacco product can be characterized based on antioxidant content using the ORAC index or the FRAP index. An exemplary product has an ORAC index value of at least about 20 (&#x3bc;mol TE)/g or a FRAP index value of at least about 50 (&#x3bc;mol/Fe)/g.

Smokeless tobacco composition incorporating a botanical material

Provided are smoking products and methods of preparing smoking products that include tobacco and a deflavored rosemary or a heat-treated rosemary. The deflavored and/or heat-treated rosemary may have been previously heated at a temperature and a time sufficient to reduce or remove flavorant components compared to the use of untreated rosemary. The heated rosemary may include one or more pentacyclic triterpenoid acids such as betulinic, betul-18-enoic, oleanolic, and ursolic acids.

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Lewisville, NC, United States of America

Wayne Allen Scott