Thermally releasable flavor source for smoking articles.

摘要

A flavour source to be used as a thermally releasable flavourant for smoking articles that do not combust tobacco. The material includes tobacco particles (346), an aerosol precursor (341) that forms an aerosol upon exposure to heat, and a filler material (343) that absorbs and radiates heat to minimize the likelihood that the flavour material will ignite. The material is mixed in an extruder (300), extruded through a die (320), and cut into pellets (329) having a substantially uniform shape. The pellets are loaded into a chamber for inclusion in a smoking article as a flavour generator.