Smoking Accessory

Abstract

A device for adding a flavored agent to a cigarette filter may include a housing, a container within a housing, and an absorbent material for observing the flavored agent. The housing may include a flexible strap for detachably connecting to a package for cigarettes, and the housing may include a plurality of containers for a plurality of flavors. The flavored agent may be a flavored syrup, and the flavored syrup may include at least one from the group of: orange, grape, lemon, lime, white chocolate, dark chocolate, cinnamon, raspberry, watermelon, mint, apple, apricot, blueberry, caramel, coconut, cranberry, kiwi, vanilla, peach, chocolate, mocha, hazelnut, almond, amaretto, maple. Irish crème, cream, avocado, papaya, pumpkin, walnut, peanut, mango, passion fruit, pineapple, rum, pistachio, strawberry, banana.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to smoking articles such as cigarettes, and in particular, to cigarettes that include filter segments and treating the filter segments with a flavored agent including a flavored syrup.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Smoking articles, particularly cigarettes, generally comprise a tobacco rod of shredded tobacco (usually, in cut filler form) surrounded by a paper wrapper, and a cylindrical filter aligned in an end-to-end relationship with the tobacco rod. Typically, the filter includes a plug of cellulose acetate tow attached to the tobacco rod by tipping paper. Ventilation of mainstream smoke is achieved with a row or rows of perforations about a location along the filter. Such ventilation provides dilution of drawn mainstream smoke with ambient air to reduce the delivery of tar.[0003]Particulate efficiency of a filter is typically resolved as the level of tar into a filter minus tar level out of the filter divided by the tar...

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Problems solved by technology

Ventilation tends to lower particulate efficiency of a filter.

Such placement, however, tended to lower the filtration effectiveness of the adsorbent, because it tended to increase the velocity of the mainstream smoke in at least a portion of the absorbent bed.

In particular, activated carbon has the propensity to reduce the levels of certain gas phase components present in the mainstream smoke, resulting in a change in the organoleptic properties of that smoke.

Despite these advantages of carbon bearing filters, they are not so widely employed.

It has been found that mainstream smoke from carbon filters tend to have a flavor note that is contrary to consumer preferences, and that therefore their employment in commercially offered cigarettes has not been heretofore widespread.

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