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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Masato Miyauchi, Yokohama, JP;
Toru Sakurai, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Nagae, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Tanabe, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroaki Nakano, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Japan Tobacco Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24D 1/02 ; D21H 2/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A24D 1/02 ; D21H 2/700 ;
Abstract
A cigarette paper having a sidestream smoke smell-improving agent including a lactone in its free state, or a salt of a hydroxy acid corresponding to the lactone, as well as a cigarette wrapped by the cigarette paper. The salt of the hydroxy acid can be an alkali metal salt or an alkaline earth metal salt. The lactone can be a lactone having five or more ring members. The lactone can be a &ggr;-lactone or a &dgr;-lactone.