EP2617299A1 - Paper filled with tobacco particles - Google Patents

Abstract

A paper contains fiber portion comprising cellulose fiber and tobacco particles.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to the field of smoking articles. In particular, it relates to means for reducing harmful ingredients in the smoke of such a smoking article as tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION AND RELATED ART

An important trend in the cigarette industry is the development of low smoke cigarettes to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco smoke. This is mainly driven by legal requirements, as in many countries, upper limits for the ingredients of the smoke, such as tar, nicotine or carbon monoxide, apply. For example, in the European Union, it is not allowed to sell or manufacture cigarettes that yield more than 10 mg tar, 1 mg nicotine or 10 mg carbon monoxide in a standardized test. Similar laws exist in other countries.

A typical cigarette consists of a tobacco rod, which is wrapped by a cigarette paper and usually has a cylindrical shape. In addition, at one end there is a filter, which is usually made of cellulose acetate and wrapped with a filter paper wrapper. In addition to pure cellulose acetate filters, it is also possible to use segmented filters. These have one or more segments in which various substances, such as activated carbon or paper filters, are located. The filter and the cigarette paper-wrapped tobacco rod are joined together by the tipping paper, also called tipping paper. Further, it is known to perforate the tipping paper so as to dilute the smoke flowing through the filter.

The smoking levels of a cigarette can be determined by a method according to ISO 4387. The cigarette is lit on the first move and then every minute a train with a tensile duration of 2 seconds and a volume of 35 cm ^{3 is performed} with sinusoidal tensile profile. This is repeated until the cigarette falls below a predetermined length in the standard. The smoke passing from the mouth end of the cigarette is collected in a Cambridge Filter Pad , which is then analyzed to determine the amount of tar and nicotine and, if necessary, the content of various other substances. The non-resorbed gaseous ingredients in the filter are passed on and also analyzed, for example, to determine the content of CO.

The tobacco rod of a cigarette is wrapped with a cigarette paper, which consists at least partially of pulp fibers, such as wood pulp fibers or fibers of flax, hemp or sisal.

The wood pulp fibers used for papermaking are usually distinguished into long and short fibers, with long fibers typically being pulp fibers of softwoods such as spruce or pine having a length of more than 2 mm, while the short fibers are usually of hardwoods, such as birch, beech or eucalyptus, and typically have a length of less than 2mm, often about 1mm.

The pulp fibers typically make up about 60 to 100% by weight of the finished paper. The cigarette paper may also contain fillers, principally lime, but other inorganic fillers such as titanium dioxide, calcium sulfate, magnesium carbonate, magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide, and talc are also possible fillers. The mass fraction of the inorganic fillers is typically up to 40 wt .-% of the finished paper.

Furthermore, the cigarette paper can still contain substances that control the burning behavior of a cigarette. Examples are sodium and potassium citrates, sodium and potassium bicarbonates, ammonium, sodium and potassium acetates, and sodium and potassium salts of formic acid, malic acid, lactic acid, ammonium, sodium and potassium phosphates, which in a mass fraction of up to 5 wt. -% to be added. In addition, the addition of flavors is still possible to taste with this one To influence cigarette paper manufactured cigarette, or to flavor the sidestream smoke.

An important characteristic of a cigarette paper is its diffusivity. The diffusivity is a measure of the gas flow caused by a concentration difference through the cigarette paper. It therefore designates the gas volume passing through the paper per unit time, per unit area and per concentration difference and thus has the unit cm ³ / (cm ² s) = cm / s. A measurement of the CO ₂ diffusivity can be carried out, for example, by means of a diffusion measuring device from Borgwaldt KC ( Diffusivity Tester ) or Sodim ( CO ₂ Diffusivity Meter ).

A measurement of the diffusivity can take place under standard conditions according to ISO 187. In addition, however, the cigarette paper may also be previously exposed to an elevated temperature to simulate thermal stress. A possible procedure is to expose the cigarette paper for 30 minutes at a temperature of 230 ° C in the presence of air. This can be done in a conventional drying oven. Since the change in the diffusivity of the cigarette paper is irreversible due to the heating process, the cigarette paper can be conditioned after heating according to the standard conditions according to ISO 187, before the measurement of the diffusivity is carried out. In the present disclosure, all data on the diffusivity values are obtained by this method, ie after heating to 230 ° C for 30 minutes and subsequent conditioning according to ISO 187.

In order to reduce the amount of harmful substances in the smoke of a cigarette, several approaches are known in the art. One possibility is to dilute the smoke passing through the cigarette by an influx of air. This is called ventilation. Increased ventilation results in greater dilution of the mainstream smoke and thus lower levels of smoke. The ventilation of a cigarette can be adjusted for example via a perforation on the tipping paper or on the air permeability of the cigarette paper.

Another way of influencing the exhaustion values is the filtration of the mainstream smoke. This can be done, for example, by a filter made of cellulose acetate or by segmented filters. The latter have, in addition to one or more segments of cellulose acetate, also chambers associated with certain substances, such as activated carbon or Paper filters are filled. These cause additional filtration of the smoke and thus lead to a reduction of the smoke values, and occasionally to a selective reduction of certain smoke ingredients.

Another way to reduce the levels of smoke is to replace some of the tobacco with other material that may be partially non-combustible, resulting in fewer harmful substances overall. Such a material is in KG McAdam et al., The use of a novel tobacco substitute-sheet and smoke dilution to reduce toxicant yields in cigarette smoke, Food and Chemical Toxicology, Volume 49, Issue 8, 1684-1696 (2011 ) . It is a material that consists mainly of lime and glycerin and sodium alginate.

Overall, one would like to achieve a reduction in the levels of smoke, preferably even a selective reduction of certain smoke ingredients, but without that there is a significant change in the overall characteristics of the cigarette from the smoker's point of view. In particular, measures that may affect the customer acceptance or the taste of the cigarette, as is the case for example with high ventilation or heavy filtration, undesirable. Replacing the tobacco with alternative materials also has disadvantages. On the one hand, such replacement materials can often only be processed poorly on conventional cigarette machines. On the other hand, substances are often introduced into the tobacco rod by the materials which usually do not occur in tobacco or cigarette paper in the same ratio, which impairs the taste of such cigarettes.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The invention has for its object to provide means by which unhealthy levels of smoke in a smoking article can be reduced, while minimizing the influence of the taste for the smoker.

This object is achieved by a paper according to claim 1, a smoking article according to claim 13 and a use of the paper according to the invention according to claim 15. Advantageous developments are specified in the dependent claims.

The paper according to the invention is intended for incorporation into the smokable material of a smoking article, for example in the tobacco rod of a cigarette. It contains a fiber content that contains pulp fibers and tobacco particles. In this case, the tobacco particles can form 2 to 20 wt .-%, preferably 5 to 15 wt .-% and particularly preferably 5 to 10 wt .-% of the fiber content.

The inventor has found that the levels of smoking can be significantly reduced when paper containing such tobacco particles is added to the actual tobacco, i. H. this paper replaces part of the tobacco normally present. At the same time, the taste for the smoker is only slightly influenced by the addition of such paper. In this way, a very advantageous compromise results from reducing the smoking value on the one hand and maintaining the character of the cigarette, in particular their taste, on the other hand.

As shown below by means of a number of exemplary embodiments, the admixture of the paper according to the invention into the tobacco rod can reduce the exhaustion values to a far greater extent than would have been expected by the person skilled in the art. It is clear that the levels of smoking are reduced as the tobacco is replaced by other, especially nonflammable, paper components. The reduction of the exhaustion values, however, goes far beyond this predictable effect. Instead, the paper according to the invention can be used to produce an additional filtering effect, which contributes to the reduction of the exhaustion values. However, the filtering effect alone can not completely explain the observed decrease in the exhaustion values, since the person skilled in the art would have expected that the smoke condensate deposited in the paper according to the invention will be released again during the subsequent combustion of the paper during smoking, to the same extent, so that the relevant ingredients will at best be temporary would be smoked delayed. However, the inventor's measurement indicates that this is not the case. Instead, the inventor suspects that the filtration effect of the paper according to the invention is so strong that the smoke condensate is deposited above all in the region adjoining the ember cone and the smoke condensate is then deposited during the glimmering phase following a train in which part of the paper according to the invention together with the burned smoke condensate, is discharged into the sidestream smoke, so that it is not included in the mainstream smoke absorbed by the smoker during a train.

Preferably, the tobacco particles have an average size of less than 1 mm, more preferably a mean size of 0.05 .mu.m to 200 .mu.m. The "size" of a tobacco particle refers to the size of the tobacco particle as determined by Sedigraph. These tobacco particles may be a waste product of tobacco processing, such as tobacco dust. However, it is also possible to use normal cut tobacco, which has been minced by suitable methods.

The paper according to the invention preferably corresponds in its construction substantially to a conventional cigarette paper and, like this, contains pulp fibers, such as wood pulp fibers or pulp fibers from other plants, such as e.g. As flax, hemp or sisal. Preferably, the pulp fibers comprise long fibers, short fibers or a mixture of long and short fibers. In the present disclosure, "long fibers" are fibers having a length of more than 2 mm and "short fibers" being fibers having a length of less than 2 mm, typically about 1 mm. In principle, long fibers result in an increase in tensile strength, while a higher proportion of short fibers gives the paper a looser, more porous structure. According to their function and properties in the fiber network, the tobacco particles are more suitable for replacing short fibers than long fibers.

The proportion of long and short fibers in the paper according to the invention can be varied within wide ranges. In an advantageous embodiment, the proportion of long fibers is more than 60 wt .-%, preferably more than 80 wt .-% and particularly preferably more than 90 wt.% Of the fiber content of the paper. Preferably, the proportion of short fibers less than 20 wt .-%, more preferably less than 10 wt .-% of the fiber content of the paper. However, it is also possible to use only short fibers. However, because of the low strength, the short fibers in this case should be ground in a manner known per se in the art.

As mentioned in the beginning, the inventor suspects that the reduction of the exhaustion values is very substantially related to the filter property of the paper according to the invention. The filtration effect is influenced by the specific pore structure of the paper according to the invention, which can be characterized by the diffusivity. In an advantageous embodiment, the paper is such that it - after heating to 230 ° C for 30 min - a diffusivity of 0.01 cm / s to 2.0 cm / s, preferably from 0.015 cm / s to 1.0 cm / s and particularly preferably from 0.16 cm / s to 0.75 cm / s, measured at standard conditions according to ISO 187. The pre-measurement carried out thermal load, ie heating to 230 ° C for 30 min, the thermal stress in the tobacco rod during smoldering or smoking. In this way, at least approximately the diffusivity of the paper can be determined under the conditions relevant in practice.

In an advantageous embodiment, the paper has a thickness of 20 .mu.m to 100 .mu.m, preferably from 40 .mu.m to 90 .mu.m. A preferred basis weight is 20 g / m ² to 80 g / m ² , preferably 30 g / m ² to 70 g / m ² . Such thicknesses and basis weights have been found in experiments to be suitable for the purpose of the invention to reduce smoking fume levels. Another practical advantage is that paper of this strength can be produced well on conventional machines for the production of ordinary cigarette paper, as used for example for wrapping a tobacco rod.

In an advantageous embodiment, the paper contains a filler which constitutes up to 50% by weight, preferably 10 to 40% by weight, particularly preferably 20 to 35% by weight of the paper. A suitable filler is, for example, lime, in particular precipitated lime, which has a higher chemical purity than lime from geological degradation. However, other inorganic fillers are suitable besides lime, for example titanium dioxide, calcium sulfate, magnesium carbonate, magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide or talc, which can be used individually or in mixtures. A filler content above 50% by weight has proved less suitable because of the lower strength of the paper and the tendency of the paper to dust.

In order to control the burning rate of the paper according to the invention and thus the number of passes of a cigarette containing this paper, the paper according to the invention can be impregnated with burn salts. The fire broth may include one or more of the following: sodium citrate, potassium citrate, sodium bicarbonate, potassium bicarbonate, ammonium acetate, sodium acetate, potassium acetate, formic acid sodium or potassium salts, malic acid or lactic acid, ammonium phosphate, sodium phosphate or potassium phosphate.

Preferably, the Brandsalz forms up to 5 wt .-%, particularly preferably up to 3 wt .-% of the total paper pulp. The burn salts can either be applied directly to the paper machine by means of a glue or film press or afterwards in a separate device on the paper.

Since the paper according to the invention is intended to replace part of the tobacco in the tobacco rod of the cigarette, its visual appearance also plays a role. Therefore, additional dyes may be added to the paper of the invention to match the color of the paper to that of the tobacco. One possibility is iron oxide particles, but other inorganic or organic dyes or pigments may be used. Preferably, in use, due to a possible influence on the taste of a manufactured cigarette containing this paper, it will be limited to a proportion of up to 10% by weight of the paper pulp.

In order to optimize the taste impression of the paper according to the invention during smoking, an aqueous tobacco extract can also be applied to the paper. This extract can be prepared by mixing tobacco with an appropriate amount of water and filtering off the mixture after a storage period of, for example, 24 hours at room temperature or elevated temperature. The tobacco extract may be diluted or concentrated before it is applied to the cigarette paper. As with the brine salts, the application of this extract can be done in the size or film press or on a separate device. Also an order together with the Brandsalzen is possible. The remaining after removal of the water solids content of the extract preferably makes up to 5 wt .-% of the paper mass, particularly preferably 2 to 4 wt .-%. Additionally or alternatively, the paper may be treated with flavors that are easily introduced into the smokable material of the smoking article in this way.

Alternatively or in addition to this extract, flavorings or humectants known from tobacco processing, such as glycerol or propylene glycol, can be applied to the paper according to the invention, the sum of these substances preferably up to 3% by weight of the paper pulp, particularly preferably up to 2 Wt .-% of the pulp. Other additives, as are customary in the production of cigarette papers, for example starch, alginates, wet strength agents, retention aids or other auxiliaries of the Paper production can be contained in the paper, the proportion of these substances in total being preferably less than 2% by weight of the paper pulp, particularly preferably less than 1% by weight.

The paper according to the invention can be produced on conventional paper machines, preferably wire-screening machines. In this case, a fiber-filler suspension, which is applied from the headbox to the wire of the paper machine, first by dewatering by vacuum and gravity, in the press section by mechanical pressure and finally in the dryer section by heat, so that at the end of the paper machine, the paper can be rolled up. The tobacco particles are treated in the manufacturing process preferably as the short fibers in the manufacturing process conventional cigarette paper and are therefore preferably used unground.

In order for the paper of the invention to be processed on conventional cigarette machines, such as tobacco, it must be cut into pieces of suitable size. The size of these pieces is based on the cutting size of the tobacco, the length of 0.1 mm to 10 mm, preferably 0.3 mm to 8 mm, more preferably 0.4 mm to 6 mm and the width of 0.1 mm to 2 mm, preferably 0.3 mm to 1.5 mm, particularly preferably 0.4 mm to 1 mm.

The invention also relates to a smoking article whose smokable material, in particular tobacco rod, paper is admixed according to one of the abovementioned embodiments. The paper according to the invention replaces a part of the usually present smokable material of the smoking article.

As shown in the embodiments below, the reduction of the values of smoke is relatively strong, so that one may already expect a significant effect when replacing 2% of the mass of smokable material by the paper according to the invention. It is not advisable to replace more than 50% of the mass of smokable material with the paper according to the invention, because then the taste of the cigarette is excessively impaired. Preferably, one will choose a range of 10 to 30% by weight of the mass of smokable material.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

Fig. 1

Figure 14 shows a table summarizing the characteristic data of papers according to seven embodiments of the invention.

Fig. 2

shows a table in which the exhaustion values tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide and the Zugzahl of cigarettes are summarized when using the seven papers of the invention in a cigarette of Fig. 1 as well as for the same cigarette without such paper.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

In order to prove that the paper according to the invention achieves the desired effect, 7 different papers filled with tobacco particles were produced. The exact parameters of the produced papers can be found in the table of Fig. 1 be removed. The papers differ mainly in the mixing ratio of long fibers, short fibers and tobacco particles, the values in the table of Fig. 1 in terms of long fibers, short fibers and tobacco particles on the mixing ratio with each other, ie in the "fiber content", and are not based on their absolute content in the pulp. The proportion of long fibers was in Examples 2-7 between 80 and 95 wt .-%, the proportion of short fibers up to 10% and the proportion of tobacco particles between 5 and 10 wt .-% of the fiber content. In Example 8, only short fibers and tobacco particles were selected as fibers.

Lime was used as the filler, and due to the purity, precipitated lime contained in the paper samples 2-6 in a proportion of 40% by weight of the paper pulp was preferred. Paper sample 7 was produced entirely without lime as an inorganic filler. In addition, the paper was impregnated with a tobacco solution. The preparation of such a tobacco solution was carried out by preparing an aqueous suspension of tobacco particles, which was stored for 24 hours at room temperature and then filtered. The extract was applied to the paper in the size press. Paper samples 2, 4, 5 and 7 were additionally impregnated with potassium citrate, paper sample 5 was additionally treated with a flavoring agent encapsulated in cyclodextrin from Mane.

The paper was comminuted, before blending with the tobacco, to pieces 0.4 mm to 1.0 mm wide and 0.5 mm to 5.0 mm long.

Cigarettes were made using paper patterns 2-8. The cigarettes had a length of 84 mm, a diameter of about 8 mm and a filter plug of cellulose acetate with a length of 16 mm, which was connected by a Tippingpapier with a length of 26 mm with the tobacco rod. The cigarette paper wrapping the tobacco rod had an air permeability of 32 CU (= cm ³ / (min cm ² kPa)), a basis weight of 25 g / m ² and a lime content of 26 wt%. The cigarette paper further contained 2% by weight of citrates as brand salts.

The tobacco used was a commercial American Blend brand BATTON. Each cigarette contained a total fill of about 800 mg. This was composed of 80 wt .-% tobacco and 20 wt .-% of the shredded paper according to the invention, so that each cigarette contained about 640 mg of tobacco and about 160 mg of the paper according to the invention.

The reference cigarette used was a cigarette with the above technical data but with about 800 mg of tobacco without the paper according to the invention.

The cigarettes were smoked according to ISO 4387 and the number of puffs, tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide were determined. The results can be found in the table of Fig. 2 ,

It can be seen that in all test cigarettes which contain the paper according to the invention, a considerable reduction of the values of smoke can be achieved. This reduction may be due in part to the replacement of a portion of the tobacco with the nonflammable lime contained in the test papers 2-6 as a filler. However, according to the amount of lime in the cigarette, this can only explain a reduction of 8% or less, and not, as found in the experiments, by up to 70%. In addition, even with test paper 7, which contains no lime, a considerable reduction in the exhaustion values. Finally, it can be seen that the reduction of the exhaustion values can not be explained by a quicker glow of the cigarette, since the number of passes of all test cigarettes changes considerably less than would correspond to the reduction of the exhaustion values. The test paper 8 was made without the use of long fibers and also causes a significant reduction of Abrauchwerte, wherein for this paper, the short fibers were ground to obtain sufficient mechanical strength, while they were used unground in the other test papers. However, based on a higher mechanical strength of the paper value, it is preferable to choose a sufficient proportion of long fibers.

Thus, there is a surprising reduction in the levels of smoke, which can not be explained solely by considering the materials used in the papers of the invention. Rather, in addition to the mere replacement of tobacco by non-combustible material also seems to have an additional filtering effect. The inventor suspects that the surprisingly pronounced filter effect is due to the special pore structure of the paper according to the invention and can be characterized by the diffusivity. For the test papers 2-7 a good correlation between the diffusivity and the reduction of the smoke values is shown. For the data in Fig. 2 For example, both the correlation coefficient of the quantities "diffusivity" and "tarreduction" and the correlation coefficient of the variables "diffusivity" and "carbon monoxide reduction" are each greater than 0.9.

Although the filtration effect of paper is known per se, however, the person skilled in the art would have expected that the smoke condensate deposited in the paper according to the invention would be released again during the subsequent combustion of this paper during smoking to the same extent, so that the relevant ingredients would only be smoked with a time lag. Like the ones in the table of Fig. 2 However, this is not the case. The inventor suspects that the filtration effect is so strong that the smoke condensate is deposited above all in the area closest to the ember cone and the smoke condensate then enters the glow phase following a train in which a portion of the paper according to the invention burns together with the accumulated smoke condensate Sidestream smoke is emitted so that it is not contained in the mainstream smoke taken up by the smoker during the subsequent turn.

The measurements show that the proportion of lime in the paper samples has a considerable influence on the reduction of the exhaustion values. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that lime is not flammable and thus hardly contributes to the levels of consumption, and partly because it influences the diffusivity of the paper according to the invention. The values of 40% by weight of Paper pulp in samples 2-6 and 0% of pulp in sample 7 show the extreme values. In many practical embodiments of the invention, the lime content will move in a middle range of this interval.

Another means of influencing the diffusivity is the proportion of long fibers, short fibers and tobacco particles in the paper. As can be seen from the test papers 2-7, apparently a high content of unmilled short fibers and tobacco particles leads to a reduction of the diffusivity, which is why these components can be used very well for controlling the diffusivity and thus also for controlling the reduction effect of the exhaustion values. The test paper 8 shows a considerably higher diffusivity, but this test paper is not comparable in all respects because of the grinding of the short fibers with the test papers 2-7.

The use of burn salts in the paper speeds up the glow of the cigarette and thus reduces the number of strokes. For the paper samples 2, 4 and 5, which all contain about 2% by weight of potassium citrate as fire salt, it was possible to achieve a reduction in the number of strokes by about 10%, which contributes approximately in the same ratio to a reduction in the values of smoke.

Claims (15)

Paper for incorporation in the smokable material of a smoking article, in particular in the tobacco rod of a cigarette,
wherein the paper contains a fiber portion comprising pulp fibers and tobacco particles. Paper according to Claim 1, in which the tobacco particles form 2 to 20% by weight, preferably 5 to 15% by weight and more preferably 5 to 10% by weight of the fiber fraction. Paper according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the tobacco particles have an average size of less than 1 mm, preferably a mean size of 0.05 μm to 200 μm. Paper according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the pulp fibers comprise long fibers, short fibers or a mixture of long and short fibers. Paper according to one of the preceding claims, in which the content of long fibers is more than 60% by weight, preferably more than 80% by weight, particularly preferably more than 90% by weight of the fiber content of the paper, and / or
in which the proportion of short fibers is less than 20% by weight, preferably less than 10% by weight, of the fiber content of the paper. Paper according to one of the preceding claims, which, after heating to 230 ° C for 30 minutes, has a diffusivity of from 0.01 cm / s to 2.0 cm / s, preferably from 0.015 cm / s to 1.0 cm / s and more preferably from 0.16 cm / s to 0.75 cm / s, measured at standard conditions according to ISO 187. Paper according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the paper has a thickness of from 20 μm to 140 μm, preferably from 40 μm to 90 μm, and / or the paper has a basis weight of from 20 g / m ² to 80 g / m ² , preferably from 30 g / m ² to 70 g / m ² . Paper according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the paper contains a filler which constitutes up to 50% by weight, preferably 10 to 40% by weight, particularly preferably 20 to 35% by weight of the paper, wherein
the filler contains one or more of the following materials: lime, in particular precipitated lime, titanium dioxide, calcium sulfate, magnesium carbonate, magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide or talc. A paper according to any one of the preceding claims, further comprising a firing salt constituting up to 5%, preferably up to 3%, by weight of the total pulp, the fire salt comprising one or more of the following: sodium citrate, potassium citrate, Sodium hydrogencarbonate, potassium bicarbonate, ammonium acetate, sodium acetate, potassium acetate, sodium or potassium salts of formic acid, malic acid or lactic acid, ammonium phosphate, sodium phosphate or potassium phosphate. A paper according to any one of the preceding claims which further contains dyes or pigments which preferably constitute up to 10% of the total paper pulp, the dyes or pigments preferably containing iron oxide. Paper according to one of the preceding claims, which is impregnated with an aqueous tobacco extract whose solids content, after removal of the water, constitutes up to 5% by weight, preferably between 2 and 4% by weight, of the total paper pulp and / or which is treated with flavoring agents is. Paper according to one of the preceding claims, which is in the form of pieces having a length of 0.1 to 10.0 mm, preferably 0.3 to 8.0 mm and particularly preferably 0.4 to 6.0 mm, and or
have a width of 0.1 to 2.0 mm, preferably 0.3 to 1.5 mm, and more preferably 0.4 to 1.0 mm. Smoking article whose smokable material, in particular tobacco rod, paper is admixed according to one of the preceding claims. A smoking article according to claim 13, wherein the proportion of the paper is 2 to 50% by weight, preferably 10 to 30% by weight of the mass of the smokable material. Use of a paper according to any one of claims 1 to 12 for incorporation in the smokable material of a smoking article, in particular in the tobacco rod of a cigarette, in order to reduce the smoking value of the article.

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