PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING CIGARETTES EMPLOYING PRESELECTED ALCOHOLS

摘要

According to this process redried cut rage tobacco (28) is directly sprayed with one or more preselected alcohols (20) (or other compounds) which are capable, when the vapors thereof are inhaled by the smoker, of inhibiting or blocking the selective localization of at least one nitrosamine and/or a metabolite thereof in the smoker's tissues, such as those of the epithelial lining of his lungs. An example of such an alcohol is cyclohexanol in an ethyl alcohol solution. After the alcohol either directly or in a solution has been sprayed on the tobacco, preferably as it tumbles in the cooler cylinder of the mechanized cigarette making line, and allowed to dry, the tobacco is made or machined in a conventional manner into the final cigarette (22).