KR20050030922A - Method for preparing tobacco with low nicotine contents - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for preparing a tobacco with low nicotine contents is provided to produce a tobacco having almost no toxicity by decreasing the nicotine contents greatly. The method for preparing the tobacco with low nicotine contents comprises the steps of: preparing a tobacco powders mixed glue by grinding dried tobacco leaves to about 150 to 200 meshes, mixing it with glutinous powders in a ratio of 3:1 and boiling it in water in an amount of 2 to 5 times weight of the tobacco powders; and applying the glue to a conventional cigaret paper, then putting a cigaret paper thereon again, pressing, attaching, drying and chopping according to a conventional method for preparing a tobacco.

Description

METHOOD FOR PREPARING TOBACCO WITH LOW NICOTINE CONTENTS}

The present invention is a method for producing tobacco with low nicotine content, more specifically, the present invention is a tobacco leaf, that is, dried leaf tobacco is pulverized into fine powder of about 150 to 200 mesh, mixed with glutinous rice flour and boil it in water The paste is applied to a surface of a conventional cigarette paper, and then the cigarette paper is integrally bonded thereon, dried, and then finely sliced to produce a low nicotine tobacco.

Cigarettes contain more than 7,000 substances, 30 of which are lethal toxins that are deadly to the human body, including tar, which is a cancer-causing factor, carbon monoxide, which depletes oxygen in the blood, and bronchitis. This strong nicotine is mentioned. Among them, nicotine is not only self-toxic, but its addictive substance is a powerful substance such as drugs, which makes it difficult for many smokers to quit smoking because of the habitual dependence caused by nicotine addiction. In the past, nicotine was mistaken for lack of physical dependence and distinguished from cocaine, but nicotine also proved to be physically dependent. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines nicotine as "a substance that is psychologically dependent and continues to seek drugs, and physically dependent, which does not stop taking and harms physical and mental health."

They even made tobacco by using no tobacco leaves at all or by using other plant leaves or herbaceous leaves (such as cedar) in the form of tobacco. However, the decrease in the content of nicotine was not satisfactory, and in the latter case, no nicotine was found, but it was not investigated what harm to humans when inhaling such cigarettes, and it was completely different from the tobacco taste of conventional tobacco. Due to the fragrance, there is a problem that can not fit the taste of existing tobacco lovers tamed with tobacco flavor.

The present inventors have been trying to develop a cigarette that is not addicted to nicotine, pulverized dried leaf tobacco into a fine powder of about 150 ~ 200 mesh, mixed with glutinous rice flour and then boiled in water to make a tobacco powder mixture grass The paste is applied to a surface of a conventional cigarette paper, and then bonded to the cigarette paper, and dried again, and then chopped to produce a low nicotine cigarette with a nicotine content of almost the same taste and aroma as a conventional cigarette. The present invention was completed by finding out that it is not addictive because it is significantly reduced compared to conventional cigarettes.

The purpose of the present invention is that the dried leaf tobacco is pulverized into fine powder of 150 ~ 200 mesh and mixed with glutinous rice flour and then boiled in water to make a tobacco powder mixture pool and apply the paste to a regular cigarette paper surface and then again It is to provide a method for producing a cigarette lowering the content of nicotine harmful to the human body by preparing a cigarette with a low nicotine content by attaching the cigarette paper integrally and press-dried and then thinning it according to a conventional tobacco production method.

In order to achieve the above object, the method for producing tobacco having a low content of nicotine according to the present invention is harvested dried leaf tobacco, that is dried dried leaf tobacco pulverized into fine powder of 150-200 mesh and mixed with glutinous rice flour 3: 1 Then, put it in water corresponding to 2-5 times the weight of tobacco powder, boil it at a temperature of 85 ~ 90 ℃, make a mixture of tobacco powder, apply this paste to the surface of ordinary cigarette paper, and then put cigarette paper on it again. It is characterized by producing a cigarette with low nicotine content by adhering with a thin slice after drying.

The manufacturing method will be described in more detail as follows.

First, the dried and dried leaf tobacco is pulverized into fine powder of 150-200 mesh, mixed with 150-200 mesh of glutinous rice flour and 3: 1, and then put into water corresponding to 2 to 5 times the weight of tobacco powder at 80 to 90 ° C. Boil at a temperature of about 10 minutes to make a mixture of tobacco powder and apply this paste to a surface of a normal cigarette paper, and then put a cigarette paper on it, compress it and adhere it together, then chop it finely by a conventional cigarette manufacturing method. To produce tobacco with low nicotine content. At this time, in order to adjust the content of nicotine contained in the tobacco of the present invention, by adjusting the amount of the tobacco powder mixture pool made by boiling the tobacco powder and glutinous rice powder used in water can be easily adjusted to the nicotine content required. In addition, the tobacco of the present invention may be added to the existing leaf tobacco to adjust the content of nicotine high or increase the palatability. Tobacco according to the present invention can improve palatability by adding peppermint, fragrance, etc. like the normal cigarette, if necessary.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail by examples. However, the following examples are only for exemplifying the present invention, and the present invention is not limited by the examples.

Example 1

Harvest dried leaf tobacco was put into a grinder to prepare a fine powder of about 150 ~ 200 mesh. This was mixed with glutinous rice powder pulverized into 150 to 200 mesh in a weight ratio 3: 1, and water was added to 3.5 times the weight of tobacco powder, and then boiled at 85 to 90 ° C. to make a paste. In this way, a tobacco-colored tobacco powder mixture paste is obtained. The mixing ratio of water to 3.5 times the weight of tobacco powder is for producing a relatively high viscosity paste, and can be used arbitrarily within the range of 2-5 times. The paste was applied to the surface of a normal cigarette paper, and then the cigarette paper was put thereon and compressed to be integrated. When compressed like this, the tobacco powder mixture including the moisture penetrates into the cigarette paper and becomes naturally tobacco-colored. At this time, apply the tobacco powder mixture glue to the paper to be bonded up and down at a ratio of 5.578g per 10g weight 10g to adjust the nicotine content ratio after drying of the cigarette paper with the tobacco powder mixture paste interposed. It was. In this way, the cigarette paper glued together with the tobacco powder mixture pool was sufficiently dried, cut into sizes similar to the existing tobacco powder, and rolled with a conventional cigarette paper to prepare a membrane tobacco or a filter cigarette by attaching a filter.

Example 2

Cigarettes were manufactured in the same manner as in Example 1, except that the nicotine content ratio was adjusted to 20% by applying 13.815 g of the tobacco powder mixture paste to 10 g of 10g weight of two cigarette sheets to be attached up and down.

Example 3

Tobacco was prepared in the same manner as in Example 1, except that the nicotine content ratio was adjusted to 30% by applying 24.167 g of the tobacco powder mixture paste to 10 g of the weight of two cigarette sheets to be attached up and down.

Comparative Example 1

As a result of evaluating nicotine content by comparing the tobacco of the present invention prepared by Examples 1 to 3 and the tobacco (control 1) prepared with untreated tobacco such as Examples 1 to 3, Table 1 and The same result was obtained.

TABLE 1

As can be seen in Table 1, the nicotine content of the tobacco according to the present invention may be adjusted in a ratio of 10%, 20% or 30%. This is 10 to 3.3 times less than tobacco produced from untreated tobacco. In other words, it is a way to lower the content of nicotine to a desired level, such as 1/10 or 3/10, depending on the amount of application of tobacco powder mixture on cigarette paper. (See Table 1)

Comparative Example 2

The cigarettes of the present invention prepared by Examples 1 to 3 and commercially available tobacco (control 2) were compared to evaluate nicotine content, and the results as shown in Table 2 were obtained.

TABLE 2

From Table 1 and Table 2 it can be seen that the nicotine content of the untreated leaf tobacco (control 1) is 1.02 wt%, the nicotine content of commercial tobacco (control 2) is 0.550 wt%. This is because Control 1 was dried at a high temperature in a farmhouse to have a very low moisture content, whereas Control 2 was treated with a desiccant and included various additives. Although the nicotine content of commercial tobacco is somewhat lower than that of untreated tobacco, it was confirmed through experiments that the nicotine content of 1 to 4 is still higher in the practice according to the present invention (see Table 2).

Therefore, in the case of conventional cigarettes, since a large amount of nicotine is inhaled from the cigarettes smoked every day, if you suddenly quit smoking, withdrawal symptoms occur due to nicotine's addictive or body dependence, but it is difficult to boil cigarettes. Tobacco prepared according to the amount of nicotine itself is less because the amount of nicotine that is inhaled and accumulated in the body is also reduced. From this, if the cigarette manufactured according to the present invention is smoked for several days, the withdrawal phenomenon gradually decreases even when only a small amount of nicotine is inhaled, and the cigarette can be more easily quit.

Example 4

In addition, the nicotine content control of the present invention is not limited to the treatment method of Examples 1 to 3 shown in Table 1 above. That is, it is possible to easily adjust the content of nicotine by adding a predetermined amount of the conventional leaf tobacco powder to the nicotine content of 10% of the tobacco produced in the same manner as in Example 1. The nicotine content of 10% tobacco obtained in Example 1 was mixed with conventional tobacco leaf powder, and the nicotine content could be arbitrarily adjusted such as 20% and 30% (see Table 3).

TABLE 3

Comparative Example 3

To evaluate the palatability of the tobacco of the present invention prepared by Examples 1 to 3 and the tobacco (control 1) prepared from untreated tobacco such as Examples 1 to 3 compared to domestic cigarettes in the market. Was carried out. The evaluation was a sensory test, and the results are as follows.

(1) Example 1: Since the content of nicotine is about 10 times less than that of control 1, the irritation caused by the absorption of nicotine is less, and the taste is weaker and milder than that of control 1. People who have smoked a general cigarette for a long time because the content of nicotine is reduced when the cigarette is smoked, the weakness of nicotine is weak at first, and thus the palatability is somewhat reduced, but soon it is possible to adapt to the tobacco taste of the present invention.

(2) Example 2: Tobacco taste is slightly weaker than Control 1, but there is no big difference, since the content of nicotine is about 20% of Control 1, smoking this cigarette can inhale a considerable amount of nicotine in addition to the inhalation of smoke. Even people who smoked until now can feel the irritation caused by nicotine. However, a person who smoked too much cigarette may be less palatable because the stimulation of nicotine is weak, but will soon be able to adapt to the tobacco taste of the present invention.

(3) Example 3: There is almost no difference in the taste of the control 1 and the cigarette because the content of nicotine is about one third of the control 1, and smoking this cigarette can inhale a considerable amount of nicotine in addition to the inhalation of smoke. People who smoked cigarettes can feel the irritation caused by nicotine.

The taste of cigarettes during smoking is determined by the stimulation of nicotine contained in the smoke rather than the taste when smoke is inhaled. In Example 3, a relatively large amount of nicotine remains so that the control It has the advantage that there is no big difference from 1.

(4) Control group 1: The taste of smoke inhaled and the complex taste of tobacco caused by nicotine's nerve stimulation is not significantly different from the taste of tobacco when smoked in domestic tobacco.

Comparative Example 4

Cigarettes of the present invention prepared by Examples 1 to 3, tobacco (control 1) made of untreated tobacco such as Examples 1 to 3 and smoking tobacco (control 3) using tobacco leaves in the market ) To examine some of the side effects that appear on the body when smoking, and the results are shown in Table 4 below.

TABLE 4

As can be seen from Table 4, the tobacco according to the present invention mainly used foliar tobacco powder and cigarette paper used as a conventional tobacco raw material and a small amount of glutinous rice flour was added, but the glutinous rice flour has a mild smell similar to the smell of burning rice. Subsequently, nausea, sore throat, bad smell, strong irritation to the tongue, and discomfort did not appear at all when smoking, as in Control 1, but Control 3 showed nausea, sore throat due to strong stimulation, and unlike tobacco leaves, It has a peculiar and nasty smell of burning leaves, with severe irritation to the tongue and discomfort.

Such side effects include nausea, sputum, dizziness, drowsiness, anxiety, sore throat, lethargy, headache, thirst, and decreased concentration as a side effect in human trials even in non-smoking packaging made from processed cedar leaves. It is also a matter of confirming that it is done.

As described above, the leaf tobacco according to the present invention is finely pulverized and mixed with glutinous rice flour, put in water and boiled to make a tobacco powder mixture pool and apply this paste to a surface of a conventional cigarette paper, and then again on the cigarette paper To prepare a cigarette by squeezing it, squeezing it, adhering and drying it, and then slicing it by a conventional method, the content of nicotine is remarkably reduced while being similar to the existing cigarette, thereby obtaining an excellent tobacco having almost no addictive effect. In addition, the cigarette prepared according to the present invention is expected to be utilized as an auxiliary cigarette for the purpose of quitting smoking, there is an effect that can use the entire site without removing the leaf vein of tobacco tobacco.

Claims (3)

(a) The dried dried leaf tobacco is pulverized into fine powder of 150-200 mesh and mixed with glutinous rice flour 3: 1, and then boiled in water corresponding to 2-5 times the weight of tobacco powder to make tobacco powder mixture grass. step, (b) applying a predetermined amount of the paste made by the above (a) on the surface of the conventional cigarette paper, and then put the cigarette paper on it again, and then pressure-bonded and dried to thin it according to the conventional tobacco production method of tobacco Method for producing tobacco with low nicotine content, which is used as the main raw material of the. According to claim 1, characterized in that the nicotine content is controlled by the difference in the amount of the application of the tobacco powder and glutinous rice flour mixed in the cigarette paper made in the step (b) of the cigarette paper, the low nicotine content of the tobacco Manufacturing method. Method for producing a low nicotine tobacco, characterized in that the nicotine content of the tobacco is controlled by adding the conventional tobacco leaf powder to the low nicotine tobacco produced by the method of claim 1.