| 摘要 |
<p>A smoking article (10) (26) (40) comprises: a rod (12) of smokable material having a mouth-end and a distal-end remote from the mouth-end; an outer wrapper (22) circumscribing the rod (12) ; and a mouthpiece (14) abutting and attached to the mouth-end of the rod (12) , the rod (12) includes at least two segments ((16) (17) (18) in abutting end-to-end relation, each of the at least two segments (16) (17) (18) ) comprises a charge of smokable material contained within an inner wrapper (20) , the diameter of a downstream segment (16) at the mouth-end of the rod (12) is between 0.2 mm and 0.6 mm smaller than the diameter of an upstream segment (18) at the distal end of the rod (12) . In a preferred embodiment, the abutting ends of the at least two segments (16) (17) (18) , which may comprise different tobacco blends, are oriented at an acute or an obtuse angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the rod (12) .</p> |
