Activated carbon beads for smoking articles

Abstract

The smoking article comprises smokeable material and activated carbon particles downstream of said smokeable material. The activated carbon particles are produced from whole seeds. The activated carbon particles have length, width and height. At least two of the length, width and height independently range from about 1 mm to about 7.5 mm. The particles may be spheroids, in which case the length, width and height will be the same or similar.

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technical field [0001] The present disclosure relates to smoking articles having activated carbon-containing filters. Background technique [0002] Combustible smoking articles, such as cigarettes, typically have cut tobacco, usually in the form of cut filler, surrounded by a wrapper to form a tobacco rod. A smoker uses a cigarette by lighting one end of the cigarette and burning the tobacco rod. The smoker then receives mainstream smoke by drawing on the opposite or mouth end of the cigarette, which typically contains a filter. The filters are positioned to trap some components of mainstream smoke before it is delivered to the smoker. [0003] Smoking articles have also been proposed in the prior art in which an aerosol-generating substrate, such as tobacco, is heated rather than combusted. In heated smoking articles, the aerosol is generated by heating the aerosol-generating substrate. Known heated smoking articles include, for example, smoking articles in which aeroso...

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[0006] Additionally, particle leakage may result from handling filters containing activated carbon or from incorporating such filters into smoking articles

For example, a continuous rod of activated carbon-containing filters may be cut into smaller segments for incorporation into smoking articles on the smoking article production line, and cutting a filter containing activated carbon may result in the release of previously trapped activated carbon particles

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