Smoking articles
First Claim
1. A smoking article comprising a rod of smoking material, a heat sensitive aroma-release element disposed adjacent an end of the smoking material, said heat sensitive aroma release element releasing the aroma into the ambient atmosphere when the burning smoking material reaches the vicinity of the element so that the aroma is relased only after substantially all the smoking material is combusted, said heat sensitive aroma release element being combustible and adapted to smoulder under the influence of heat from the burning smoking material.
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Abstract
There is provided a cigarette 10 having a tobacco rod 12 and a filter plug 14. Between the rod 12 and the plug 14 is disposed a porous element 16 containing an aroma precursor which, when the cigarette smoulders down to the butt, is burnt by the coal to release an agreeable aroma into the atmosphere.
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- 1. A smoking article comprising a rod of smoking material, a heat sensitive aroma-release element disposed adjacent an end of the smoking material, said heat sensitive aroma release element releasing the aroma into the ambient atmosphere when the burning smoking material reaches the vicinity of the element so that the aroma is relased only after substantially all the smoking material is combusted, said heat sensitive aroma release element being combustible and adapted to smoulder under the influence of heat from the burning smoking material.
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