EP0756461A1 - Tobacco products, or substances similar to such products, containing natural substances with anti-oxidant properties, and process for producing the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PCT No. PCT/EP95/01452 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 17, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 17, 1996 PCT Filed Apr. 18, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/28098 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 26, 1995Smokable products made of tobacco and/or another smokable material, which comprise natural substances having an antioxidative effect and/or naturally identical synthetic products thereof. These natural substances are selected according to the invention from hydroxycinnamic acids and their esters and depsides, plant phenols which can be derived from hydroxycinnamic acids, polymers of hydroxycinnamic alcohols, further natural substances of plant origin which have antimutagenic and aromatizing properties and are combined with vitamins, their precursors and/or derivatives having an antioxidative effect, and further vitamins having an antioxidative effect which are complexed with eukaryotic cell cultures. Processes for the preparation of products of this type are furthermore described. Compared with conventional smokable products, the products have a distinctly decreased risk potential.

Description

 Tobacco products or tobacco products similar goods with natural substances having an antioxidative effect and process for producing the same

The present invention relates to tobacco products or tobacco-like products which are provided with known antioxidative natural substances and / or nature-identical synthesis products thereof and are intended for smoking, and to processes for producing these products.

The human organism is exposed to a naturally occurring basic load of toxic substances and is therefore confronted with a large number of utagenic and carcinogenic substances, some of which are formed by itself through its own metabolism.

However, humans have various defense mechanisms at the immunological, cellular and genetic level in order to counteract, for example, an allergic reaction, cell damage or a mutation event in the area of genetic information. So-called “pairing systems” exist in the cells, for example, with the aid of which changes in the genetic material can be recognized and eliminated. For a long time it was assumed that between the effects of possible risk factors such as various products of incomplete combustion, various radiations and / or electromagnetic fields, some plant and wood preservatives, certain mineral fibers (eg asbestos) and certain metabolic products of mold (eg aflatoxin) there is a direct causal relationship to the human organism and the development of cancer. However, the fact that the vast majority of people who are exposed to these risk factors do not have the symptoms to be expected has led to a rethink in risk assessment. The level of cancer risk can no longer be defined solely from the potential pollutant or exposure factor. Rather, it must be assumed that it is the result of a multifactorial interrelation between a large number of acting substances / mechanisms and the contaminated organism. Furthermore, it is certain that several mutation events are required at certain locations in the genome so that a degenerate cell with uncontrolled growth can emerge from a normal body cell.

The body's defense system is of particular importance, which can also be influenced individually by the way of life. For example, the food intake in the body causes a number of chemical reactions, whereby mutagenic and antimutagenic substances are in close interrelation.

In the meantime, chemical compounds have been identified that have a protective effect against mutagenic substances such as various vitamins, mustard oils and beta-carotene. Naturally occurring vegetable phenols such as hydroxycinnamic acids and their compounds contained in foods are also discussed on the basis of their antioxidative properties as antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic substances of different intensities (Karl Herrmann, "Hydroxycinnamic acid compounds as biologically active ingredients of food ", Ernahr¬-Umschau 38, Issue 4, pp. 148-154 (1991)). These findings are based, among other things, on epidemiological findings that show an inverse relationship between the consumption of fruit and vegetables and different types of cancer.

The term "tobacco products" used in this description includes both cigarettes, cigarillos and tobacco cartridges (so-called plug-in cigarettes) with or without a filter, as well as fine cut and pipe tobacco, which consist entirely or in part of tobacco and / or another smokable material, as well as tobacco candles similar tobacco products such as "Kretek" - cigaret:; ι with the addition of up to 50% by weight of smokable spices, or to understand pure, tobacco-free plant cigarettes.

It is known that consumers of smokable tobacco products also ingest a large number of organic compounds, some of which have a toxic potential for the human organism, while others can reduce this. In the discussion about the health-endangering properties of tobacco products, the mutagenic and cancer-promoting effects of some of the tobacco ingredients that enter the human body through inhalation have been put in the foreground for a long time. As already stated, there is no direct causal connection between the action of pollutants and the development of cancer.

Numerous series of tests have led to the result that the substances or compounds present in a tobacco product and entering the organism of the consumer either in the gas or particle phase of the main stream smoke are not able directly to a normal human cell ¬ Chen organism transform into a degenerate cell.

Accordingly, it can be established that the mutagenic effect of ingredients of the mainstream smoke which can be demonstrated in laboratory tests of tobacco products cannot be directly equated with a carcinogenic effect, since most of the substances and groups of substances to be named in this context only develop their hazardous potential through the cell's own metabolism of these compounds. These findings about the mutagenic effect were obtained with the aid of the generally known Arnes test (DM Maron and BN Arnes, "Revised Methods for the Salmonella Mutagenicity Test", Handbook of Mutagenicity Test procedures, Elsevier Science Publishers BV, Her. BJ Kilbey , M. Legator, W. Nichols and C. Ramel, 1984).

Various approaches have been taken to reduce the risk potential of smokable tobacco products.

On the one hand, new filter systems were created, by means of which certain groups of pollutants are prevented from getting into the mainstream smoke and thus into the respiratory tract of the consumer. For example, in DE-PS 35 32 618 a doping of the filter of filter cigarettes with, for example, L-ascorbic acid is disclosed, whereby the lowering of aldehydes of the main stream smoke from cigarettes is said to be significantly promoted. From WO 89/01301 it is known to prepare filters of filter cigarettes with microcapsules and macrocapsules containing ethanol and other alcohols in order to protect the lung tissue from certain toxic constituents of cigarette smoke, such as in particular nitrosamines, by "blocking" the affected or accessible one beforehand To protect areas with certain alcohols released in the mainstream smoke.

Attempts have also been made to impregnate the tobacco of filter cigarettes with certain substances in order to reduce the content of certain pollutants in the mainstream smoke. It is known from OE-PS 340 297 and OE-PS 240 298 to act on tobacco with ascorbic acid or with salts thereof in order to reduce the nitrogen dioxide content of the cigarette smoke. Furthermore, according to EP-PS 0 116 085, a method for impregnating gnierung of filter cigarettes with interferon or biologically active fragments thereof disclosed. Cigarettes treated in this way are said to activate the body's production of interferon and thus to support the immune system.

Products manufactured in this way help to reduce potential risks of smoking, but they also have disadvantages inherent in the system. On the one hand, only certain toxic components are predominantly retained in the gas phase of the cigarette smoke in the unburned section of the cigarette rod (N0 ₂ ) or in the filter (aldehydes) by means of chemisorption, while the content of the main stream smoke in other pollutants is not influenced. On the other hand, the creation of a "protective layer" within the organism according to WO 89/01301 should in turn only succeed against certain pollutants such as, for example, the nitrosamines. The use of interferon according to EP-PS 0 116 085, however, is associated with considerable costs.

The object of the present invention is therefore to create a further smoking article which contains additives which further reduce the potential risks of smoking, and to provide a method for producing such smoking articles.

To achieve this object, a smokable product made from tobacco and / or another smokable material is proposed, which comprises antioxidative natural substances and / or nature-identical synthesis products thereof, which are selected from:

(a) hydroxycinnamic acids, their esters and depsides;

(b) vegetable phenols derived from hydroxycinnamic acids;

(c) polymers of the hydroxycinnamic alcohols; (d) combinations of other natural substances of plant origin which have antimutagenic and aromatizing properties, with antioxidant vitamins, their precursors and / or derivatives;

(e) complexes of antioxidant vitamins with eukaryotic cell cultures.

It has surprisingly been found that the smokable product according to the invention has a significantly lower risk potential than conventional products.

In the tobacco product according to the invention, the hydroxycinnamic acids p-cumaric acid, caffeic acid and ferulic acid are preferred. The preferred esters of hydroxycinnamic acids are their methyl and ethyl esters, while the preferred deposits of hydroxycinnamic acids consist of their compounds with fruit acids or quinic acid, of which chlorogenic acids are particularly preferred.

According to the invention, the plant phenols derivable from hydroxycinnamic acids umbelliferone, aesculetin, scopoletin, curcumin, ellagic acid and dihydrocaffeic acid are preferred, while the polymers of the hydroxycinnamic alcohols are preferably derived from p-coumaryl alcohol, coniferyl alcohol and sinapyl alcohol.

The other natural substances of plant origin with both anti-mutagenic and flavoring properties are preferably vanillin, ethylvanillin, cinnamaldehyde, anisaldehyde, coumarin, 6-methylcoumarin, eugenol, jasmine aldehyde, anethole, p-anisylacetone, limonene, cinnamon and cinnamon extract. The antioxidative vitamins combined according to the invention with these other natural substances of plant origin are preferably ascorbic acid, β-carotene, retinol and tocopherol and their derivatives, optionally in combination with one another and / or other vitamins. Stable derivatives of ascorbic acid such as ascorbic acid palmitate or ascorbigen (ascorbic acid bound O 95/28098 PCΪ7EP95 / 01452

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to indole). As further vitamins, which have an antioxidative effect and are complexed with eukaryotic cell cultures, β-carotene, retinol and α-tocopherol and their derivatives are preferred.

The respective molecular weights and melting and boiling points of the natural substances according to the invention of groups (a) to (d) are listed in Table 1.

The preferred hydroxycinnamic alcohols according to the invention are p-comaryl alcohol, coniferyl alcohol and sinapyl alcohol and form the lignin which occurs in woody plants. The various hydroxycinnamic alcohols are incorporated into macromolecules in varying amounts in various forms of linkage. The strength of the wood is essentially caused by the incorporation of lignin in cellulose.

It has been shown that the antioxidative phenolic properties of lignin can be effective in shredded wood. Freshly prepared wood fibers in particular are able to reduce the mutagenic potential of smoke passed over them.

According to a preferred embodiment, the antioxidative natural substances and / or nature-identical synthesis products thereof are contained in the tobacco product individually or in combination, their relative amounts based on the total weight being able to vary depending on the intended component or components of a smokable tobacco product. In principle, the natural substances can be incorporated or upgraded in a known manner both in the smoking tobacco including the conventional additives and in individual components of the tobacco products that are accessible to the mainstream smoke, such as filters, wrapping papers, carrier substances, Na glue, etc. Manufacturer of the tobacco product can also happen proportionately with its suppliers. If the pure natural substances are added to tobacco, their preferred relative use amount is in the range of 0.1 per thousand to 25% by weight, a content between 1 and 5% by weight being particularly preferred. If the pure natural substances are incorporated in the filter or in the cigarette paper or in the glue of the cigarette seam, the preferred amounts are 0.1 to 50% by weight, with amounts of 1 to 20% by weight being particularly preferred are. The filter used can be a chamber filter, a cellulose acetate filter or a cellulose random-fiber fleece filter or a multiple filter, preferably a double filter (in each case with or without filter ventilation), the double filter having a higher line-side draw resistance and a lower mouth-side draw resistance and an overall filter efficiency of 80 - 99%. Filters made from other filter materials known per se can also be used in combination with the antioxidative natural substances.

Are the natural substances according to the invention contained from the start in non-tobacco-containing, predominantly vegetable smokable materials that are added to the tobacco, or alternatively the smokable mixture consists exclusively of optionally different, coordinated, non-tobacco-containing, vegetable materials with or without the plant's own inventions Natural substances according to the invention also apply to the preferred amounts of 0.1 per mille to 25% by weight, based on the pure natural substances, and also the particularly preferred amounts of use of 1.0 to 5% by weight, in all cases the intended use can be supplemented by adding the pure natural substances or the pure substances according to the invention to the smokable mixture. A further preferred use or offer form of the natural material containing the antioxidative natural substances, in particular vitamins such as α-tocopherol or β-carotene, are cultured eukaryotic cells, the dry matter of which is between 0.5 and 15% by weight of the antioxidant vitamins in fixed or fixed form May contain, such as specially cultivated tobacco or yeast cells.

Thus, according to methods known per se (for example W. Röper et al., J. Plant Physiol. 118, 463-470 (1985) and DE-PS 2 144 460) it is possible to use tobacco cells in liquid culture substrates for producing a tobacco substitute material to cultivate.

In the context of the present invention, it has surprisingly been found that the antioxidative natural substances according to the invention firmly attach themselves to the cultured eukaryotic cells when they are added to the culture broth in suitable concentrations. For example, the concentrations in the case of α-tocopherol (in the form of α-tocopherol acetate) are 0.01 to 10, preferably 0.05 to 2% by volume, and in the case of β-carotene 0, 01 to 0.5, preferably 0.05 to 0.2 vol .-% o. The complexes according to the invention thus formed can then be added after filtration from the culture broth and drying of the smokable mixture.

Table 1 Phenolic phytonutrients according to the invention

Ingredient MG Kp (° C) Fp (° C)

p-Cumaric acid 164.2 sublimates 214-217 (decomp.) p-cumaric acid methyl ester 178.2 139 p-cumaric acid ethyl ester 192.2 87

Caffeic acid 180.2 215-220 (dec.)

Caffeic acid methyl ester 194.2 157-158

Caffeic acid ethyl ester 208.2 149-150

Ferulic acid 194.2 170-172

Ferulic acid methyl ester 208.2 163 at 1 mm Hg 65

Ferulic acid ethyl ester 222.2 185 at 3 mm Hg 58

Chlorogenic acid 354.3 208-210 (dec.)

Umbelliferon 162.2 sublimes 230-233

Aesculetin 178.2 sublimates 272-275 (dec.)

Scopoletin 192.2 204-206

Curcumin 368.4 175-180

Ellagic acid 302.2> 350

Dihydrokaifeic acid 182.2 133-137

Vanillin 152.2 170 at 15 mm Hg 81-83

EtbylvaniHin 166.2 74-77

Cinnamaldehyde 132.2 253 -7.5

Anisaldehyde 136.2 248 25

Coumarin 146-2 297-299 68-71

6-methylcoumarin 160.2 303 75-76

Eugenol 164.2 253-255 -9

Jasmine aldehyde 2023 287-290 -

Ethanol 148.2 232-237 20-23 p-Anisylacetone 178.2 152-153 at 15 mm Hg 8

Lime 136.2 176 -97 O 95/28098 PCΪ7EP95 / 01452

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For example, when producing a smokable mixture, the substances according to the invention can be added to the leaf cut and / or the rib cut in a manner known per se, if appropriate using known adhesives and binders. Alternatively, the substances can be incorporated into film or tape tobacco in a known manner, which is particularly useful when using solid, ground natural substances. A novel, non-tobacco-containing plant film can also be used here, which at least partially contains the natural substances according to the invention in the form of plant-specific ingredients of parts of the plant film material. The smokable base material is preferably a mixture of lamina tobacco or a mixture of lamina tobacco and foil tobacco or a tobacco-free mixture of plant material which is made from coltsfoot, peppermint, nettle, white plantain, spearmint, lavender, thyme, Sweet or sour cherry leaves, knotweed leaves, rose leaves, allspice leaves or cinnamon bark are derived. Alternatively, it is preferred that the smokable material be a combination of tobacco blend and tobacco-free blend.

Furthermore, the substances according to the invention can be added to the casing and / or flavoring substances in liquid form, and they can even replace them.

The usual filter systems essentially consist either of a filter fiber tow made of cellulose acetate fibers or of cellulose fibers which are matted together, which result in a cellulose random fiber fleece. The filter fiber tow is normally sprayed with one of the permitted hardeners during the manufacture of the cigarette filter in order to crosslink the fibers and thus harden the filter. These hardeners mostly consist of triacetin or. Triethylene glycol diacetate (TEGDA) and can, according to the invention, be partly or completely replaced by the natural substances according to the invention in liquid form, provided that they dissolve in the hardener or act as hardeners themselves, for example eugenol. In liquid usable according to the invention as a hardener Natural substances such as eugenol, or in conventional hardeners such as TEGDA or triacetin, can, according to the invention, in turn be used to dissolve other natural substances such as cinnamaldehyde, jasmine aldehyde, ethylvanillin and 6-methylcumin, but also α-tocopherol, tocopherol acetate, tocopherol succinate, retinol and retinol palmitate, so that bi- or ternary or multiple solution mixtures result which can advantageously be used both as hardeners for cellulose acetate fibers and as casing substances for smokable mixtures.

Suspensions of solid natural substances can also be used in the hardener, but also scattering of ground natural substances in filter fiber tow made of cellulose acetate fibers.

The different solubilities and miscibilities of some flavoring substances and vitamins preferred according to the invention in or with the customary hardener substances triacetin and TEGDA and the natural flavoring substance eugenol which can itself be used according to the invention as a hardening substance are shown in Table 2. The data in Table 2 show in particular the excellent solution-imparting properties of the eugenol which can be used according to the invention as a hardener or hardener component. However, the substance eugenol can also be used in the form of a mixture with other substances listed in Tables 2 and 3 as hardeners or solvents, the specific mixtures and their respective proportions taking into account their properties and their market prices and depending on the or components of the product according to the invention to be treated can easily be selected. A mixture of 80 parts of triacetin, 15 parts of eugenol and 5 parts of α-tocopherol acetate is particularly preferred. The substances mixed in this ratio result in a clear solution, from which triacetin and eugenol preferably diffuse into the interior of the fibers after application to cellulose acetate fibers, as a result of which the tocopherol acetate is enriched on the surface of the filter fibers, and thus particularly easily from here as an emitter acting "filter" can be transferred into the main stream smoke.

If the filter to be used in the process for producing a tobacco product does not consist of cellulose acetate fibers, it and / or the other components of the later product such as the smokable tobacco-containing or tobacco-free vegetable material, the cigarette paper and the suture to be used according to the invention are provided with a Solution from the aromatic substances and vitamins (or provitamins) treated according to the invention, individual representatives of these groups of substances being usable as solvents. The respective solubilities and miscibilities of the entire substances in or with some of the natural substances which can also be used as solvents according to the invention are shown in Table 3.

Table 2

Solubility of antioxidant aromas and vitamins A and E in filter hardeners

Flavoring vitamins

Hardener cinnamon jasmine ethyl 6 methyl A A E E aldehyde aldehyde vanillin coumarin palmitate acetate succi

Triacetin M M> 10> 10> 10 <1> 10 <1 <1 TEGDA M M> 10> 10> 10 <1 M <1 <1 Eugenol M M> 10> 10> 10 <1 M M 10

TEGDA = triethylene glycol diacetate

M = miscible in equal parts

> 10 = solubility greater than 10% by weight

<1 = solubility less than 1% by weight Table 3

Solutions made from antioxidant flavors and vitamins A and E and ß-carotene for the treatment of filters, tobacco, cigarette paper and seam glue

Flavoring provitamin vitamins

as eugenol jasmine cinnamon ethyl 6-methyl ß-carotene A E E E solvent aldehyde aldehyde vanillin coumarin acetate succinate

Eugenol X M M> 10> 10 <1> 10 M M> 10

Jasmine aldehyde M X M> 10> 10 <1> 10 M M> 10

Cinnamaldehyde M M X> 10> 10> 1> 10 M M> 10

Vitamin E acetate M M M <1 <1 <1 <1 M x n.b.

M = miscible in equal parts

> 10 = solubility greater than 10% by weight

> 1 = solubility greater than 1% by weight

<1 = solubility less than 1% by weight

When using the cellulose fiber fleece, the substances according to the invention can already be incorporated into the fleece by the filter material manufacturer. Ultimately, the usually bleached cellulose fibers of, for example, annual plants of the known random fiber fleece can be exchanged partially or predominantly, preferably up to 85%, with suitable unbleached wood pulp "fibers" containing lignin with sufficient antioxidant activity. In addition, the solid substances according to the invention can be introduced into the chambers of chamber filters, for example in granular form with a grain diameter of about 0.8 mm, by the filter rod manufacturer, as can liquid substances according to the invention, taken up, for example, from wood flour or lignin granules, with particularly suitable or wood particles in fiber-dust or granule form containing a lot of antioxidative action can also be used as solitary as chamber embedding materials or as self-supporting, porous or smoke-permeable compacts in the desired filter format. Furthermore, the inside of the filter wrapping paper that comes into contact with the mainstream smoke when it is smoking can also be coated with the natural substances according to the invention.

The cigarettes paper can be provided with the natural substances according to the invention in encapsulated or unencapsulated form in a manner known per se, both single-layer and two-layer cigarette papers being suitable for this. In the latter case, the inner tobacco rod wrapper, which can also be network-like or highly porous (10-20,000 CORESTA), is preferably provided with the substances according to the invention. This net-like inner tobacco rod wrapping can be made predominantly or entirely from suitable wood pulp containing lignin which has an antioxidative effect, and the fiber content of otherwise customary cigarette papers can also consist at least partly of suitable unbleached wood pulp containing lignin. Finally, the glue used in the area of the cigarette seam to glue the tobacco rod casing can also contain the natural substances according to the invention in liquid or finely ground form. It has been shown here that the technical properties of glues treated in this way can even be improved.

According to the basic idea of the invention, when the tobacco product according to the invention is consumed or smoked, its mainstream smoke is enriched with the natural substances known to have an antioxidative effect, with the result that the antimutagenic substances released by the mainstream smoke are approximately at the same time as the potential pollutants of the mainstream smoke are available to the organism at the site of metabolism and thus a possible mutagenic effect of the undesirable critical substances is largely largely compensated. This means that with a comparatively small amount of substances having an anti-mutagen effect, the same effect is produced as if a correspondingly larger amount of these substances were subsequently made available to the organism.

An important prerequisite for the practical use of the natural substances used according to the invention is their sufficient transition to the mainstream smoke. Experimental results have shown that this requirement is met by the natural products used (cf. Example 4). In addition, it has been shown that the transition into the main stream smoke of natural substances according to the invention incorporated in plant parts - for example the tobacco leaf-own scopoletin or the pimento leaf-own eugenol - can still be considerably favored by treating the corresponding plant parts after one the known blowing or expansion process, preferably according to the so-called INCOM process of the applicant according to the patent specifications DE-PS 29 03 300, DE-PS 31 19 330 and DE-PS 34 14 625. Here relevant components of the plant parts "Open-minded", ie they can be easily transferred from even small amounts of main stream smoke.

Surprisingly, it has been shown that the mutagenic potential of the tobacco products enriched according to the invention could be significantly reduced. To prove this anti-mutagenic effect, the Ames test was carried out as a meaningful rapid test (op. Cit.).

The test principle essentially consists in the fact that histidine-auxotrophic (his ^" ) indicator bacteria of the Salmonella tvphimurium species mutate back into their prototrophic form (his ⁺ ) under the influence of mutagenic substances. Carrying out the Arnes test without or With "S 9 activation", a statement can be made as to whether a test substance is mutagenic in its initial form or only after metabolism.

With this test system it was demonstrated that the particle phase of tobacco smoke collected in solvents has a mutagenic effect only in the metabolized state (cf. Shigeaki Sato et al., "Mutagenicity of s oke condensates from cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco", Cancer Lett 3, pp. 1-8, 1977).

It is certain that most substances with antimutagenic activity in the Ames test have a protective effect in the human organism or can contribute to strengthening the body's defense system (see, for example, BN Arnes, "Dietary Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens", SCIENCE, 221, pp. 1256-1264, 1983). The possible formation of toxic metabolic products from smoke constituents in the human organism and the targeted reduction of the resulting mutagenic effect by adding antimutagens can be simulated in the Ames test.

The tobacco product proposed according to the invention has a greatly reduced risk compared to conventional products. potential, since the natural substances used exert their antioxidative properties on a large number of undesirable substances and their effects develop at the point of metabolism.

The invention is explained in more detail with reference to the following examples and FIGS. 1 to 7.

example 1

To prepare the Arnes test, 20 cigarettes specified below were machine-smoked under the usual standard conditions (ISO 4387, train volume 35 ml, train time 2 seconds and train pause 58 seconds). The so-called particle phase of the main stream smoke (smoke condensate) was deposited on a Cambridge glass fiber filter, detached with 20 ml of dimethyl sulfoxide and stored at -20 ° C. until used. The non-ventilated filter cigarettes (format 100 x 7.9 mm, line 75 mm long, filter 25 mm long) had a line weight of 945 ± 10 mg (Virginia mixture), the amount of tobacco smoked was 800 mg. The 48 mg heavy cigarette paper had a porosity of 24 coresta, the filter weight was around 180 mg, the filter material consisted of commercially available cellulose acetate fibers (3.0 Y / 35000), the hardener was triacetin (approx. 7%).

Example 2

To determine the mutagenic effect, the Ames test (op. Cit.) Was carried out in the "plate incorporation" version as described below.

0.1 ml overnight culture of Salmonella typhimurium was added to each 2 ml of a soft agar tempered at 43 ° C. Strain TA 98,

0.05 ml graded diluted smoke condensate solution according to the example 1 and 0.5 ml S 9 mix (activation system), consisting of 50 μl by centrifuging liver homogenate Aroclor-pretreated rats with 9,000 g of supernatant obtained; 0.76 mg glucose-6-phosphate; 1.57 mg NADP; 0.81 mg MgCl ₂ ^• 6 H ₂ 0; 1.23 mg KC1 in phosphate buffer pH 7.4, pipetted. After a short mixing, the test batches in petri dishes were evenly distributed on an agar which only allowed the growth of the his ⁺ back mutants. The petri dishes were subsequently incubated at 37 ° C in the dark for 48 hours. After the incubation period, the colonies formed from individual his ⁺ back-mutated bacteria were counted. The mutation frequency is the measure of the mutagenic activity.

It can be seen from the results shown in Table 4 below that the substances contained in the smoke condensate only develop their mutagenic effect after they have been metabolized.

Table 4

Counted TA 98 colonies depending on the amount of condensate used

(Mean values from triplicate determinations)

Amount of smoke condensate S9 treatment Counted colonies induced colonies

(μg per plate)

0 without 41 -

120 without 43 2

240 without 40 -1

360 without 35 -6

0 with 50 -

120 with 216 166

240 with 441 391

360 with 581 531

Example 3

The evaluation of substances according to the invention with regard to their antimutagenic effects was carried out using the test system described in Example 2, in that graduated dosages of the substances in question were now additionally added to the test batches with the various amounts of condensate. It was ensured that the concentration was not toxic to the bacteria.

The results of some of the substances according to the invention having an antimutagenic effect on smoke condensate are shown by way of example in FIGS. 1 to 6.

The results show that the frequency of mutations caused by the pollutants contained in the smoke condensate and thus the risk potential from the added natural substances could be decisively reduced.

Example 4

The natural substances to be added differ considerably with regard to their melting and boiling points (cf. Table 1). In order to demonstrate that substances added to tobacco which cannot be distilled are also converted into tobacco smoke, the following experiment was carried out:

Scopoletin (7-hydroxy-6-methoxycoumarin) with a melting point of 205 ° C, without boiling point, is contained as a natural plant substance in virginia tobacco in a concentration of about 300 ppm. In order to detect the transition from added scopoletin to the mainstream smoke, three versions of experimental cigarettes were produced on the basis of the same lot of cigarettes as in Example 1. In a known manner, the tobacco of 60 filter cigarettes according to Example 1 was blown out of these using compressed air, collected, divided into thirds, two thirds of the natural product (compared only with ethanol) and in 60 equal proportions the blown out, in three Loose divided 3 x 20 filter sleeves were added again using a commercially available tobacco tamping machine for filter cigarette tubes, although the strand weight of the filter cigarettes produced in this way decreased slightly. The concentration of scopoletin in the tobacco was increased by spraying an ethanolic solution of scopoletin on the cigarette tobacco from the original 330 ppm to 630 ppm and 5,330 ppm, respectively. The manufactured cigarettes were smoked as described in Example 1, the smoke condensate collected being dissolved in methanol. The filter sleeve design data corresponded to that of Example 1, the strand weight decreased to 930 ± 20 mg, the amount of tobacco smoked was 785 mg. The analytical determination of scopoletin was carried out using HPL under the following conditions:

Column: Li Chro CART superspher RP 8, 250-4 (Merck)

Plasticizer: water / methanol / acetic acid - 85/13/2

Flow rate: 1.2 ml / min operation isocratic at 45 ° C detector at 340 nm

Injection volume: 10 μl sample

The test results obtained are summarized in Table 5 below.

Table 5

Transition from scopoletin to mainstream smoke

Scopoletin

Cigarette concentration Amount of smoke found in the main stream portion of the smoke smoked from the version in tobacco

Tobacco crowd smoked tobacco

(ppm) (μg) (μg) (%)

Comparison 330 259.1 28.2 10.9

Experimental 630 494.6 47.6 9.6 mixture 1

Experimental 5330 4,184.1 331.1 6.2 mixture 2

Smoked amount of tobacco: 785 mg per cigarette

The experiments with scopoletin, as a representative of the non-volatile antimutagenic substances, show that the exposure of tobacco with 300 or 5,000 ppm to a mass transfer of 9.6 or 6.2% in the main electricity smoke.

Example 5

The results of the experiment described below show that the antioxidative substances which pass into the smoke from mixtures of cut tobacco with cloves or. Cinnamon sticks and the exposure to pure eugenol reduce the mutagenic effect of smoke condensates.

Five versions of filter cigarettes, which differed in the composition of the final mixture according to Table 6 with the same tobacco base mixture, were produced with the same equipment and the same cigarette weight (940 mg). The cloves or cinnamon sticks used were dampened with steam, rolled and cut before mixing with tobacco. The eugenol was applied in 20% ethanol solution, the alcohol evaporating quantitatively after the treatment.

Table 6

Cut tobacco with additions of cloves, cinnamon sticks and eugenol

Composition of the cut tobacco mixture

mixture

Tobacco cloves cinnamon sticks added (% Tτ. (% Tr.) ^ (% Tτ. Pure eugenol

1 70 30 _. ...

2 70 - 30 ...

3 70 15 15 ...

4 94.9 - ... 5.1 ¹ '

5 100 - - ...

¹⁾ The amount of eugenol added here is equivalent to that contained in the cloves of mixture 1

Amount of eugenol. ^{* ■} '% Tr. = Percent by weight, based on the dry weight.

The test cigarettes were smoked under standard conditions (see example 1). The resulting smoke condensate solutions were examined with the Ames test according to Example 2, specifically in the embodiment "with S9 activation". To evaluate the mutagenicity, the same amounts of smoke condensate were used and the results relate to the untreated comparison = 100%.

The test results are shown graphically in FIG. The mutagenicity of the smoke condensate of mixture 1 was reduced to 55.5% of the effect of the comparison, which can be explained by the amount of eugenol contained in the cloves. The cloves used had an eugenol content of 17.0%. In contrast, the surprising reduction in mutagenicity can of the smoke condensate of mixture 2 to 65.3% cannot be explained solely by the amounts of cinnamaldehyde and eugenol contained.

Claims

Claims

1. Smokable product made of tobacco and / or another smokable material, comprising natural substances having an antioxidative effect and / or synthesis products of the same nature, characterized in that the natural products and synthesis products of the same nature are selected from:

(a) hydroxycinnamic acids, their esters and depsides;

(b) vegetable phenols derived from hydroxycinnamic acids;

(c) polymers of the hydroxycinnamic alcohols;

(d) combinations of other natural substances of vegetable origin, which have antimutagenic and aromatizing properties, with antioxidant vitamins, their precursors and / or derivatives;

(e) complexes of antioxidant vitamins with eukaryotic cell cultures.

2. Smokable product according to claim 1, characterized gekennzeich¬ net that the hydroxycinnamic acids are p-cumaric acid, caffeic acid and ferulic acid.

3. Smokable product according to claim 1 or 2, characterized gekenn¬ characterized in that the esters of hydroxycinnamic acids are their methyl and ethyl esters.

4. Smokable product according to claim 1 or 2, characterized gekenn¬ characterized in that the depside of hydroxycinnamic acids consist of their compounds with fruit acids and quinic acid.

5. Smokable product according to claim 4, characterized gekennzeich¬ net that the deposits are chlorogenic acids.

6. Smokable product according to claim 1, characterized gekennzeich¬ net that the vegetable phenols derived from hydroxycinnamic acids are umbelliferone, aesculetin, scopoletin, curcumin, ellagic acid and dihydrocaffeic acid.

7. Smokable product according to claim 1, characterized gekennzeich¬ net that the hydroxycinnamic alcohols are p-coumaryl alcohol, coniferyl alcohol and sinapyl alcohol.

8. Smokable product according to claim 1, characterized gekennzeich¬ net that the other natural substances of plant origin vanillin, ethyl vanillin, cinnamaldehyde, anisaldehyde, coumarin, 6-methylcoumarin, eugenol, jasmine aldehyde, anethole, p-anisyl acetone, limonene, cinnamon and cinnamon extract are.

9. Smokable product according to claim 1, characterized gekennzeich¬ net that the natural substances from the group of antioxidant vitamins ascorbic acid, ß-carotene, retinol and α-tocopherol and derivatives thereof.

10. Smokable product according to claim 9, characterized gekennzeich¬ net that the ascorbic acid is in the form of ascorbic acid palmitate or ascorbigen.

11. A smokable product according to claim 1, characterized in that the antioxidative vitamins complexed with eukaryotic cell cultures are β-carotene, retinol and α-tocopherol and derivatives thereof.

12. Smokable product according to claims 1 to 11, characterized in that the antioxidative natural substances and / or nature-identical synthesis products thereof are contained individually or in combination.

13. Smokable product according to claims 1 to 12, characterized in that it contains 0.1 per mille to 25 wt .-% of the antioxidative natural substances.

14. Smokable product according to claim 13, characterized gekennzeich¬ net that it contains 1 to 5 wt .-% of the antioxidative natural substances.

15. Smokable product according to one of claims 1 to 14, characterized in that it is a cigarette with or without a filter.

16. Smokable product according to one of claims 1 to 14, characterized in that it is a cigarillo with or without a filter.

17. Smokable product according to one of claims 1 to 14, characterized in that it is a tobacco cartridge with or without a filter.

18. Smokable product according to one of claims 1 to 14, characterized in that it is smoking tobacco in the form of Fein¬ cut or pipe tobacco.

19. Smokable product according to claims 15 to 17, characterized in that the filter contains 0.1 to 50% by weight of the antioxidative natural substances and / or nature-identical synthesis products thereof according to one of claims 1 to 12.

20. Smokable product according to claim 19, characterized in that the filter contains 1 to 20% by weight of the antioxidative natural substances and / or nature-identical synthesis products thereof according to one of claims 1 to 12.

21. Smokable product according to one of claims 15 to 17 or 19 and 20, characterized in that the filter is a chamber filter with or without filter ventilation.

22. Smokable product according to one of claims 15 to 17 or 19 and 20, characterized in that the filter is a commercially available cellulose acetate fiber filter with or without filter ventilation.

23. Smokable product according to one of claims 15 to 17 or 19 and 20, characterized in that the filter is a commercially available cellulose random-fiber fleece filter with or without filter ventilation.

24. Smokable product according to one of claims 15 to 17 or 19 and 20, characterized in that the filter is a Mehr¬ multiple filter, preferably double filter with a higher strand-side draw resistance and a lower mouth-side draw resistance with or without filter ventilation and an overall filter -Efficiency of 80-99%.

25. Smokable product according to claims 15 to 17, characterized in that the cigarette paper contains 0.1 to 50% by weight of the antioxidative natural substances and / or natur¬ identical synthesis products thereof according to one of claims 1 to 12.

26. Smokable product according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the smokable base materials are mixtures of lamina tobacco or lamina tobacco and film tobacco.

27. Smokable product according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the smokable material contains 0.1 per mille to 25% by weight of the antioxidative natural Contains substances and / or nature-identical synthetic products thereof according to one of claims 1 to 12.

28. Smokable product according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the smokable material is a tobacco-free mixture of plant material which is made from coltsfoot, peppermint, nettle, white plantain, spearmint, lavender, thyme, sweet or sour cherry leaves, Knotweed leaves, rose leaves, allspice leaves or cinnamon bark.

29. Smokable product according to claims 26 to 28, characterized in that the smokable material is a combination of tobacco mixture and tobacco-free mixture.

30. A process for producing a smokable product in a manner known per se, in which the substances usually used as hardeners for the cellulose acetate fibers forming the subsequent filter are partly or completely produced by the antioxidative natural substances and / or nature-identical synthesis products thereof be replaced according to any one of claims 1 to 12.

31. The method according to claim 30, characterized in that eugenol is used alone or as a solution with antioxidative flavoring substances in combination with vitamins as the natural substance.

32. The method according to claim 31, characterized in that the antioxidant flavorings are selected from cinnamaldehyde, jasmine aldehyde, ethyl vanillin and / or 6-methylcoumarin.

33. The method according to claim 31, characterized in that the vitamins are selected from α-tocopherol acetate, tocopherol succinate, retinol and / or retinol palmitate.