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Smoking article

  • US 8,678,013 B2
  • Filed: 01/15/2010
  • Issued: 03/25/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A cigarette comprising:

  • a lighting end and a mouth end;

    a smokable segment disposed only at the lighting end, said smokable segment having a length and comprising a smokable material circumscribed by wrapping material;

    a mouth end piece segment disposed at the mouth end;

    an aerosol-generation system disposed between the smokable segment and the mouth end piece segment, the aerosol-generation system including (i) a heat generation segment adjacent to the downstream end of the smokable segment and axially aligned in an end-to-end relationship with, but physically separate from, the smokable segment, said heat generation segment having a length and including a heat source, and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment incorporating aerosol-forming material, said aerosol-generating segment having a length and being disposed between, but physically separate from, each of the heat generation segment and the mouth end;

    a single piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap (i) around the aerosol-generating segment for at least a portion of its length, (ii) around the heat generation segment for the length of that segment, and (iii) around the smokable segment for at least a portion of its length;

    those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; and

    the mouth end piece segment being connected to the cigarette rod using tipping material.

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