Tobacco product labeling system

a product labeling and tobacco technology, applied in the field of visual indicators, can solve the problems of difficult deciphering for a tobacco user, limited success of nrt in enabling people to quit smoking, etc., and achieve the effect of reducing the exposure of a tobacco consumer to nicotine, less nicotine, and reducing the nicotine conten

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-10-26
VECTOR TOBACCO LLC
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[0019] In a further embodiment, a cigarette is labeled with the reduced nicotine content indicator that denotes the presence of approximately 0.3 mg nicotine. The exact quantity of nicotine present and indicated in the cigarette or other tobacco product is not essential to the invention, so long as the content of nicotine in the reduced nicotine product is less than that present in the base nicotine product. An example of a reduced nicotine content indicator is two rings, two stripes, or two bars.
[0020] Another embodiment of the disclosed invention provides for a cigarette labeled with the essentially nicotine-free content indicator. In an aspect of this embodiment, the cigarette labeled with the essentially nicotine-free content indicator contains approximately 0.05 mg nicotine. The exact quantity of nicotine present and indicated in the cigarette or other tobacco product is not essential to the invention, so long as the content of nicotine in the essentially nicotine-free nicotine product approaches less than one third of that found in a product labeled with a reduced content indicator. An example of an essentially nicotine-free content indicator is three rings, three stripes, or three bars.
[0021] Aspects of the invention include a tobacco product comprising a modified tobacco that has less nicotine than a tobacco of the same variety and a nicotine substitute comprising Cytisine. In some embodiments, the tobacco is a genetically modified tobacco, which may be, for example, a Virginia Flue tobacco, an Oriental tobacco, or a Burley tobacco. In some embodiments the modified tobacco comprises 0.6 mg of nicot

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One drawback of these labeling systems is that they can be very complicated and thus make it difficult for a tobacco user to decipher.
The factors involved with the habitual use of the delivery system are hereinafter refe

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Isolation and Sequencing

[0172] TobRD2 cDNA (Conkling et. al., Plant Phys. 93, 1203 (1990)) encodes QPTase, which is predicted to be a cytosolic protein. Comparisons of the NtQPT1amino acid sequence with the GenBank database revealed limited sequence similarity to certain bacterial and other proteins; quinolate phosphoribosyl transferase (QPTase) activity has been demonstrated for the S. typhimurium, E. coli. and N. tabacum genes. The NtQPT1encoded QPTase has similarity to the deduced peptide fragment encoded by an Arabidopsis EST (expression sequence tag) sequence (Genbank Accession number F20096), which may represent part of an Arabidopsis QPTase gene.

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Transformation of Tobacco Plants

[0173] DNA of the QPTase gene, in antisense orientation, is operably linked to a plant promoter (CaMV 35S or TobRD2 root-cortex specific promoter) to produce two different DNA cassettes: CaMV35S promoter / antisense QPTase-encoding gene and TobRD2 promoter / antisense QPTase-encoding gene.

[0174] A wild-type tobacco line and a low-nicotine tobacco line are selected for transformation, e.g., wild-type Burley 21 tobacco (Nic1+ / Nic2+) and homozygous Nic1- / Nic2-Burley 21. A plurality of tobacco plant cells from each line are transformed using each of the DNA cassettes. Transformation is conducted using an Agrobacterium vector, e.g., an Agrobacterium-binary vector carrying Ti-border sequences and the nptII gene (conferring resistance to kanamycin and under the control of the nos promoter (nptII)).

[0175] Transformed cells are selected and regenerated into transgenic tobacco plants called R0. The R0 plants are grown to maturity and tested for levels of nicotin...

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Tobacco Having Reduced Nicotine Levels

[0177] Tobacco of the variety Burley 21 LA was transformed with the binary Agrobacterium vector pYTY32 to produce a low nicotine tobacco variety, Vector 21-41. The binary vector pYTY32 carried the 2.0 kb NtQPT1 root-cortex-specific promoter driving antisense expression of the NtQPT1cDNA and the nopaline synthase (nos) 3′ termination sequences from Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA. The selectable marker for this construct was neomycin phosphotransferase (nptII) from E. coli Tn5 which confers resistance to kanamycin, and the expression nptII was directed by the nos promoter from Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA. Transformed cells, tissues, and seedlings were selected by their ability to grow on Murashige-Skoog (MS) medium containing 300 μg / ml kanamycin. Burley 21 LA is a variety of Burley 21 with substantially reduced levels of nicotine as compared with Burley 21 (i.e., Burley 21 LA has 8% the nicotine levels of Burley 21, see Legg et al., Can J Ge...

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Abstract

The disclosed invention relates to visual content indicators of a tobacco product. More specifically, the invention includes labeling systems that provide at least one visual indicator of a tobacco product, methods for using the systems, and tobacco products that display one or more visual indicators of content. The present invention generally relates to tobacco products, which have a reduced amount of nicotine and tobacco specific nitrosamines (TSNAs), and contain one or more nicotine substitutes. The use of these tobacco products to reduce the exposure of an individual to nicotine, as well as, facilitating tobacco-use cessation is disclosed.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This Application is a continuation of and claims the benefit of priority to PCT / US2004 / 029953, which designates that United States and was published in English, filed Sep. 13, 2004, which claims the benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 509,042, filed Oct. 2, 2003; all of the above-referenced applications are hereby expressly incorporated by reference in their entireties.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates to visual indicators that denote the presence or content level of one or more substances found in a tobacco product. More specifically, tobacco product labeling systems that provide at least one visual content indicator of a tobacco product, methods for using these systems, and tobacco products that display one or more visual indicators of content are disclosed. The present invention generally relates to tobacco products, which have a reduced amount of nicotine and tobacco specific nitrosam...

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IPC IPC(8): A24F47/00A24C1/42A24C5/60A24D3/04A24D3/06G09F
CPCA24B3/12A24B15/10A24B15/20A24B15/243A24D1/16A24C5/601A24D1/002A24D1/025A24B15/245
Inventor REICH, SUSANCONKLING, MARKZELSON, STEVE
Owner VECTOR TOBACCO LLC
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