Tobacco Substitute

• US 20110139166A1
• Filed: 08/21/2009
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GP Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: GP Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Luzenberg, Robert S. JR.
• Application Number:
  US13/060,221
• Publication Number:
  US 20110139166A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 131/359
• CPC Class Codes: A24B 13/00 Tobacco for pipes, for cigars, e.g. cigar inserts, or for cigarettes; Chewing tobacco; Snuff reconstituted tobacco products A24B3/14
• CPC Class Codes: A24B 15/16 of tobacco substitutes
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 47/00 Smokers' requisites not otherwise provided for

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a smokeless tobacco substitute which may reduce and/or alleviate many of the health problems associated with the use of cigarettes and conventional smokeless tobacco products. Further, methods of manufacturing and packaging the smokeless tobacco substitute are also disclosed. Finally a method of using the smokeless tobacco substitute to assist a user in reducing or ceasing the use of cigarettes and conventional smokeless tobacco products is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A smokeless tobacco substitute device comprising a material capable of absorbing a liquid component, retaining the liquid component and releasing at least a portion the liquid component when placed in a mouth of a user, wherein the liquid component comprises nicotine, a nicotine substitute, a Nicotiana extract, a flavoring or a combination of any of the foregoing.

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