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2241 T. Eieher, F. M1111er, and D. Steinhoff
very broad basis to the solution of the problems that still have to be
overcome.
WYNDER: I understand that, and I compliment Drs. Eicher and Muller on the
excellent science. My question is, do we believe that these tobacco substi-
tutes will have or already evidence acceptance anywhere in the worfd'?
KEITH: tT-H: I think that undoubtedly tobacco substitutes have capabilities of reducing
tar, nicotine, and undesirable components, and by a variety of biological
tests they can be shown to have utility. When the science and the biological
effects can be exposed to the public, such products have received some
degree of acceptance. In areas where you can't say anything about the
material-onfy that "tobacco substitute" is in the pack-the public just
doesn't buy the cigarettes in any appreciable quantities. You have a viable
product when you tell the public you are improving the cigarette.
BOCK: Was the bioassay (Table 2) expressed in an equal number of cigarettes
basis?
MULLER: Yes.
BoCK: Did you do sufficient dose-response information so that you could predict
how it would be on an equivalent amount of condensate basis?
MOLLER: For the 30% mixture, that was equal forcondensate, and for the 5017v
mixture there was a specific reduction too.
BOCK: So the specific activity was lower, as well as the absolute level.
ooRl: Artificial substitutes may have some significance in the future, particu-
larly, as Dr. Muller pointed out, if cigarettes with high nicotine and low tar
become desirable.
But first the safety of these products must be proved beyond reasonable
doubt, which in my opinion has not yet been done. Second, there is an
economic question because in the U.S. we can achieve the same results by
filtration and aeration, as some of the speakers have indicated before. Also
whether the country where RCN or ATS may be used is tobacco-producing
or not influences the acceptance that one gets there.
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Physical Methods for the
Modification of Tobacco Smoke
CHARLES H. KEITH
Celanese Fibers Company
Charlotte, North Carolina 38232
In the past 30 years, there has been a dramatic change in the cigarettes
commercially available in the U.S. and throughout the world. Back in 1950,
the usual cigarette was a short. 70-mm, unfiltered cigarette which delivered 30
mg or more of tar and correspondingly large amounts of other smoke compo-
nents. Conversely at the present time the usual commercial cigarette is an
85-mm, filtered cigarette with a tar delivery of 17 mg or less. A rapidly
growing segment of the market consists of low-tar cigarettes with deliveries
ranging from 10 mg down to I mg and greatly reduced deliveries ot' other
smoke components such as nicotine and carbon monoxide (CO).
Although many factors have contributed to this profound reduction in
delivery of smoke and its components, by far the most important changes have
been the addition of a filter to the cigarette and, more recently, the introduction
of controlled air dilution systems in the filter and the tobacco column. These
physical modifications of the cigarette have provided most of the 45-95%
reduction in smoke and smoke component delivery.
The purpose of this discussion is to describe brietly these systems, illus-
trate their individual and combined effects on the smoke stream, and show that
a combination of' filtration and dilution can be used to achieve a controlled
delivery of a number of smoke components. The advantages and limitations of
these filtration and dilution techniques will also be discussed, as will future
trends in their usage. In gathering the material for this review, a number of
previous discussions of filtration have been utifized. In particular the works of
Kiefer and Touey (1967). Stiiber (1970), Reynolds (1970). Kiefer (1972),
Keith (1972, 1975, 1978) and Williamson (1974) have been useful. Reviews
and articfes. by Schur and Rikards (1960), Norman (1974), Moric (1976),
Baker and Crellin (1977), Owens wens (1978), Selke (1978), Selke and Matthews
(1978), and Durcx:her et al. (1978) have provided much information about the
dilution process both in cigarette paper and filter tips. Recent work by Browne
et al. (1979) has provided much of the basis for a discussion of the interaction
between filtration, dilution, and tobacco combustion.
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FILTRATION
Although cigarettes with an attached filter have been commercially available
since the mid-1930s, they were not widely accepted until the mid-1950s. Since
that time filtered cigarettes have grown from a market share of about 1% to
almost 90% in the U.S. and are continuing to displace the classical unfiltered
cigarette both here and abroad. This dramatic change in a space of 25 years has
occurred primarily because of two important factors. One, of course, has been
a growing public awareness of the health aspects of smoking, which has
engendered a desire for lighter, milder cigarettes. The second was the intnxluc-
tion of the cellulose acetate filter, which can be manufactured and attached to
cigarettes at high speed with a high degree of uniformity at reasonable cost.
Unlike many other filter systems, the acetate filter does not seriously distort the
taste spectrum of tobacco smoke, and it imparts a smoothness by selectively
removing some of the irritants in the smoke stream. Both of these factors
apparently contributed to its widespread public acceptance. As a result almost
all of the commercial cigarette filters in this country are made from cellulose
acetate fiber.
. The usual cellulose acetate filter is made from a bundle, commonly called
a low, of 10,000-15,000 continuous filaments of cellulose diacetale polymer.
The fiber dimensions and the number of fibers are generally specified in terms
of denier per filament (DPF) and total denier (TD). Denier is a textile term that
gives the weight in grams of 9000 m of f7ber, and is directly related to tlTe
cross section area of the fiber or group of fibers. For cigarette tow, the range of
DPFs is from 1.25 to 12 which represents a span of cross-sectional area of'
100-1000 µm"/fiber. The range of total deniers is 20,000-100,000 but most
ordinary filters use tows in the range of 35,000-45,000 TD. The fibers are not
cylindrical but have various shapes dictated by the geometry of the orifice from
which they are extruded. Most commonly this is trilobal in the shape of the
letter Y, but 1-.beam and multilobed fibers are available. Usually a tow will be
specified in terms of DPF, cross-sectional shape, and total denier, as for
example 3.3Y/40000 or 4.01/42000.
In the tow manufacturing process, a crimp is imparted to the fiber and
during filter making this is partially removed. Considerable crimp remains in
the finished filter in the form of a zig zag or sinusoidal wave with a frequency
of 10-20 crimps per inch. The net result is that average fiber orientation is
25-45° away from the longitudinal axis of the filter rod. This crimp provides a
degree of firmness to the filter so that a reasonably rigid cylinder is created
even though the fibers occupy only about 10% of the filter volume. This
firmness is increased by the addition of a partial solvent or plasticizers to the
tow during the rod-making process. This serves to weld the fibers together at
their points of intersection, thereby increasing the stiffness of the fiber mass.
In addition to the fiber properties, the other important filter parameters are
the length and diameter, the latter usually being expressed in terms of circum-
ferencc of the filter. Circumferences of most normal brands are around 24.8
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mm (7.9-mm diameter) but slim brands have lower values of 21.5-22.5 mm
(6.8-7.2<mm diameter). Filter lengths cover quite a range, going from 10-15
mm on short 70-mm cigarettes to 20-22 mm on 80-_ and 85-mm cigarettes;
100-mm brands frequently have 25-mm filters.
The primary purpose of a cigarette filter is to remove part but not all of
the smoke particles. These particles have diameters ranging from 0. I- I µm
and are captured by the filter fibers by several mechanisms which are shown
schematically in Figure 1. The first and most important mechanism, particu-
larly for the smaller particles, is Brownian diffusion. In this filtration process, a
particle traveling on a streamline in the vicinity of a fiber is actually following
an erratic path because of frequent and irregular collisions with surrounding gas
molecules. This path may be such that the particle strikes the surface of the
fiber, and is permanently lost to the smoke stream. Since smaller particles have
greater displacements because of molecular bombardment, they are more likely
to be deposited on the fiber. Thus the filtration efficiency of the filter increases
with decreasing particle size.. From theoretical studies of smoke filtration (Keith
1y75), it is found that this mechanism accounts for about two-thirds of the
removal efficiency.
A second important filtration mechanism is_ direct interception of particles
by the fiber. This occurs when a particle is so situated on a streamline that it
touches the fiber during its passage around it. It then is permanently removed or
filtered from the stream. This mechanism is more effective for large smoke
particles, and is found to account for r almost one-third of smoke particle
removal efficiency.
A final mechanism, illustrated in Figure I, is that of inertial impaction of
particles onto the fiber. Even though the particle is rather small, it does have
mass and inertia and hence it tends to continue on its original path as the gas
stream turns to flow around the fiber. This leads to a deposition of the particle
on the fiber surface. This mechanism is also more effective for large particles,
but does not appear to be very important in cigarette smoke filtration, amount-
ing to about 1% of the overall particle removal efficiency.
Other filtration mechanisms such as thermal diffusion, electrostatic attrac-
tion, and gravity deposition, are thought to be negligible in tobacco smoke
DIRECT INTERCPTIDN
FFECTIYE
FIBER RADIUS
i
FIBER
Figure 1
Schematic diagram of methods of particle capture by filter fibers.
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fiftration because of the small thermal gradients in the cigarette filter, dle
uncharged or very lightly charged nature of the smuke, and the small particle
size and short residence time of the smoke particles in the filter. A direct
sieving action by the tifter also appears to be unlikely as the average interfihcr
separation is of the order of 40-50 µm, which far exceeds the less than 1-µm
size of'the particles.
In any consideration of fiftration, the draw resistance or pressure drop of'
the filter has to be considered along with the removal efficiency of the filter.
The two are closely related because high-efficiency filters are almost invariably
accompanied by high pressure drops. This occurs because those factors such as
smaller fiber size, closer fiber packing, and increased filter length that increase
filtration also increase the pressure drop. It is very important to control the
pressure drop of the filter as this has a direct bearing on the consumer
acceptance of the cigarette. Generally cigarettes with pressure drops in excess
of 150 mm of water are rejected by smokers because of hard draw.
Using basic physical principles, it has been possible to develop theoretical
expressions for pressure drop and particle removal for acetate tow filters. As
shown in Figure 2, values calculated by these equations agree well with
experimentally determined pressure drops and nicotine removal efficiencies.
These data cover a series of fifters ranging in length from 17-25 mm and
DPFs ranging from 1.8-8.0. A similar correlation exists between particle
removal efficiency and tar removal efficiency, although the latter is generally
7-8 units greater than the nicotine removal efficiency. This increase occurs
-
because tar contains some volatile and semlvolatlfe components such as phenol
that arc selectively adsorbed by the filter material, thereby inflating the removal
efficiency.
To summarize the effects of filtration, Table I briefly lists representative
effects of various filter parameters on the pressure drop and particle removal
efficiency of' acetate tow filters. In this table it is apparent that increasing filtcr
length, decreasing fiber size, and increasing fiber weight, circumference, and
degree of dilution all increase the removal efficiency for smoke particles.
Pressure drop goes in the same direction with length, fiber denier, and weight,
but decreases with increasing circumference and difution, the latter being
important in low-tar cigarettes. The 20-60% range of efficiencies shown is
essentially the practical range for acetate fifters. Thus it is difficult to reduce tar
deliveries much below 13- 15 mg per cigarette by means of conventional filters
alone. Other filter systems such as corrugated 6lters, or molded filters with a
special configuration can achieve somewhat lower deliveries; however these are
less desirable from the point of view of uniformity and economy.
DILUTION
To extend the range of tar deliveries to lower values and to achieve a reduction
in the amounts of gaseous components in cigarette smoke, the physical process
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1:1 LINE
0 IU .11 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 -IUU-IfU l1U
MASUNED PRESSURE DROP (MM NLO)
PANTICLE
REMOVAL
EFF
(j;1ENCY
Figure 2
Computed versus measured pressure drops and removal efficiencies
of air dilution is usually employed. Air dilution or ventilation can be achieved
by a combination of techniques. One approach is to increase the porosity or
permeability of the cigarette paper enclosing the tobacco column by using an
inherently more porous paper or by mechanically or electrostatically perforating
a lower porosity paper. A second method is to introduce a controlled degree of
dilution in the filter section of the cigarette by using perforated or porous plug
wraps and tipping papers. Since these two methods give somewhat different
results in terms of delivery of smoke components, it is desirable to discuss them
separately even though they are interrelated.
The reduction of delivery by means of porous or perforated cigarette
papers was first described by Schur and Rikards (1960) and has been the
subject of a number of articles since then. Cigarette paper, which usually
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Table 1
Effect of Filter Variables on
Pressure Drop and Filtration Efficiency
Variable
Amount Pressure drop
(mm H,O) Particle removal
efficiency (%)
Length (mm) 15 42 26
20 57 33
25 71 40
30 85 46
Fiber size (DPF) 1.1 159 55
2.0 87 43
3.1 56 33
5.6 31 20
Fiber weight (g) .101 46 29
.111 56 33
.121 67 37
Circumference (mm) 22.6 63 31
24.6 56 3 3
26.6 50 36
Dilution (%) 0 56 33
25 42 38
50 28 46
75 14 61
consists of cellulosic fibers from flax with added clay and carbonate fillers and
small amounts of burning modifiers, is naturally porous to a degree. By
changing the physical form of the fibers and fillers and by modification of the
paper-making process, this level of porosity can be changed over quite wide
limits. For a normal low-porosity paper, air flows of 12 cm'/(cm" min cb .
pressure drop) are found by the CORESTA (1975) recommended method,
which is generally referred to as a permeability of 12 CORESTA units. By
suitable modification, inherently porous papers of up to 120 CORESTA units
can be fabricated. However increasing the porosity of paper also increases its
burning rate, which in turn affects the burning rate of the cigarette, resulting in
fewer puffs to reach a given butt length.
Alternatively, a cigarette paper may be perforated to increase its porosity.
This is usually accomplished by means of an electrical spark gap that burns
small holes through the paper. Using this technique, CORESTA permeabilitics
of up to 200 units are achievable. Since the perforation process does not change
the burning characteristics of the base paper, it is possible by this technique to
obtain either slow- or fast-burning cigarettes. As shown by Owens (1978) an
appropriate choice of paper and amount and type of perforations can control
both the cigarette burning rate and degree of dilution.
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This ability to control both the rate of bum and the degree of'dihuion is
imponanl in that it allows greater than expected reductions in the delivery of
some smoke components. This is illustrated in data reported by Owens (1978)
who showed that increasing dilution by means of inherently porous paper gave
reduced puff counts_ and sizeable reductions in tar, nicotine, CO, and NO.
Conversely, when perforated paper was used to achieve similar dilutions,
ns,
increased puff counts were observed along with large reductions in CO and
NO. Tar was also reduced, but to a lesser degree than previously, and nicotine
delivery was essentially unchanged until high dilutions wece achieved. These
data suggest an interaction between dilution and combustion as will be dis-
cussed later. The large reductions in the permanent gases, CO and NO,
partially result from the diffusion of these materials out through the cigarene
paper during the smoking process, as has been found by Owen and Reynolds
(1967), Morie (1976), Baker and Crellin (1977), and Durocher et al. (1978).
Although air dilution through cigarette paper and the outward d diffusion of
gases is universally present in all cigarettes and is useful in controlling the
relative amounts of smoke components, it has two drawbacks limiting its
usefulness in designing low-delivcry cigarettes. The first drawback is that the
dilution and its attendant effects decrease as the cigarette is consumed. Thus the
normally higher deliveries of smoke components in the latter pufls are fiirther
heightened because of the progressive loss of the initial dilution effect. This
provides a feeling of imbalance during the smoking process. The second
drawback is that the practical levels of dilution are fairly low. For inherently
porous papers of the order of 80- 100 CORESTA porosity, the top level is
about 25%. Electrostatically perforated papers generally have dilutions of 35%
or less. These limitations are imposed by the mechanical, burning, and varia-
bility characteristics of the paper. Also if much higher dilutions were incorpo-
rated in the cigarette paper, it would be difficult to light the cigarette because of
a very high dilution in the initial puff.
Because of these drawbacks to dilution through cigarette paper, much of
the activity in recent years has been in the development of filter dilution
systems. These have the advantage that a relatively constant dilution can be
achieved during the whole smoking cycle, and, by appropriate choice of filter
plug wrapping and tipping paper, almost any dilution level can be achieved.
This is illustrated by the fact that ventilated brands currently on the market have
a range of filter dilutions from a low of 15% to a high of.80%.
The structure of ventilated filter lips varies from brand to brand, but, in
general, the dilution system involves the passage of air through two layers of
paper. The inner layer is the paper wrapper for the filter tow and is called a
plug wrap. In unvented cigarettes this is a low-porosity material (less than 10
CORESTA units), but for vented filters a range of porosities from 600 to
26,000 CORESTA units is available. The latter material resembles the paper
used on tea bags, and essentially presents no barrier to air flow. A recent
development is a process for preparing filter plugs with no paper wrapper,
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which are called nonwrapped acetate (NWA) rods. The outer barrier consists of
the tipping paper, which attaches the tobacco column to the filter. This is
usually vented by a single row or multiple rows of perforations, which are
formed in the paper by mechanical punches, laser beams, or electrical sparks.
Considerable ingenuity has been shown in designing equipment to fonn these
holes with very close tolerances at high speeds. Another type of tipping paper
has an inherent porosity built into the paper. This provides a dilution over a
considerable area of the filter rather than at discreet, localized holes. In both
types of tipping, control of glue application in the plug-making and cigarette-
assembly processes is important to avoid closing the ventilation holes.
A pioneering investigation of the effects of filter dilution on smoke
component delivery was conducted by Norman (1974). Using a vented acetate
filter and a companion vented, empty-tube mouthpiece, he compared the re-
duction in delivery of 13 components or groups of components with the degree
of dilution. If the only effect occurring were a simple replacement of smoke
with air, it would be expected that a plot of yield reduction against dilution
would be a straight I : I line. In most cases this was not true, indicating an
interaction between dilution and other processes. As shown in Table 2, Nor-
man found that permanent gases and some volatiles such as CO, CO, NO,
hydrogen cyanide (HCN), and a group of aldehydes were all delivered in lesser
amounts than would be expected from the dilution. This indicates, as men-
tioned
earlier, that the outward diffusion of these gases from the tobacco
column through the cigarette paper reduces their delivery. As the filter is more
highly vented, the rate of passage of the smoke stream through the tobacco
column is decreased, thereby allowing a greater diffusional loss. As has been
discussed by Durocher et al. (1978), there does not appear to be any appreci-
able outward diffusion through the filter vents.
In another investigation (Norman 1974), filterable components of low to
medium volatility were removed about as expected from the dilution levels or,
in some instances, were reduced much less than expected. Wet smoke solids
and tar were removed at about the expected amounts in the open tube mouth-
piece, but in greater than expected amounts in the vented filters. As was
discussed earlier, this is an indication of an increase in the filtration efficiencies
for these materials because of a slower flow rate in the tobacco column and a
portion of the filter. This effect is heightened for particulate water, which is
efficiently filtered both by tobacco and acetate filters. Nicotine, menthol,
waxes, and volatile phenols gave less than expected yield reductions. Most of
these materials are considered to be distillable smoke components that are
directly transferred from the tobacco to the smoke stream. Evidently the slower
combustion occurring in the more highly ventilated cigarettes allows a more
effective transfer of these materials backwards through the tobacco column with
less destructive loss. In the case of nicotine, this enrichment is offset by a more
efficient filtration, again resulting from the lower stream velocity. But for
phenol, which is largely adsorbed from the vapor phase, the extra dilution
Modifying Tobacco Smoke / 233
Table 2
Yield Reduction by Filter Dilution
Material Acetate filter Vented mouthpiece
1'crnment gases
CO
+
+
CO, + t
NO
+
+
Volatiles
HCN
+
+
Isoprene
+
+
Total aldehydes
+
+
Distillables
Nicotine
0 ''
Menthol
Phenols
_ I
0
WaJ(es
Other
Wet stnoke solids
.}
(I
Particulate water +
Tar
+
0
Data from Normaa (1974).
Greater yield reduction than dilution level.
"Yield reduction equals dilution level.
' Yield reduction less than dilution level.
reduces its vapor phase concentration and thereby its adsorption and selective
filtration on an acetate filter.
Although filter ventilation can remove more or less of various components
and is largely constant during the smoking process, it does not seem to be
highly dependent on the way that the dilution is achieved. McKee and Parker
(1978) investigated a wide variety of filter constructions, using various tow,
plug wrap, and tipping paper combinations. From their data the delivery of all
smoke components appears to mostly depend on the total dilution level, i.e.,
the sum of the filter and tobacco column dilutions. Additionally, there does
seem to be a dependence for filterable materials on the cigarette tow incorpo-
rated in the filter. As found both in Norman (1974) and McKee and Parker
(1978), filtration efficiency for these materials increases in a nearly quadratic
fashion as dilution is increased. This effect has also been described by Keith
(1978) and Kiefer (1978). Thus an interaction between dilution and filtration is
well established.
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One of' the fortunate aspects of dilution is that it lends to decrease the gas
concentrations more than expected, whereas filtration is more effcaive in
reducing particulate concentrations. Thus these two physical techniques are
complementary, and by a proper choice of levels of each, considerable flexibil-
ity in cigarette design is available. A further fortunate occurrence is that
nicotine, which is associated with the taste and impact and hence acceptability
of smoke is less affected by dilution than tar, which is a measure of the total
smoke exposure. Because of this it is possible to create low-tar cigarettes that
maintain an adequate level of consumer acceptance by using a combination of
dilution and tiltration.
INTERACTION WITH COMBUSTION
In the preceding discussion, the effect of the interaction between dilution and
filtration on smoke delivery has been outlined. Dilution unlike filtration has a
further effect in that it alters the combustion process, and thereby affects not
only mainstream but sidestream smoke. As shown by Browne and colleagues
(1979), increasing the level of filter dilution decreases the puff volume applied
at the burning end of the cigarette. The effects are qualitatively similar to those
obtained by changing the puff applied to the cigarette. Slow gradual puffs of
one-half (he standard volume on an unvented cigarette were found to give about
the same delivery of tar, nicotine, CO, and CO. as those of standard volume
from a 50%-dilution cigarette. This point is illustrated in Table 3 for these
components in mainstream particulate and vapor phase smoke.
Table 3
Mainstream Smoke Data Including Material Captured on Filters
escription
Number
puffs Puff
volume
at coal
(ml)
Tar
(mglcigt)
Nicotine
(mg/cigt)
CO
(mg/cigt)
CO,
(mg/cigt)
35-ml f'uff volume
No dilution
8.7
35.0
29.4
1.7
18.6
52.2
33% Dilution 8.8 23.5 27.4 1.4 12.9 40.3
48^k Dilution 9.8 18.2 15.7 1.1 6.6 27.4
83% Dilution 10.6 6.0 9.0 0.6 2.4 14.7
17.5-m1 1'uff velume
No dilution .
9.6
17.5
21.5
1.2
9.3
32.4
3396 Dilutiort 10.3 11.7 13.0 0.9 5.0 22.2
50,mi Puff yolbme
No dilution
7.4
50.0
34.3
2.1
20.4
56.9
33% Dilution 8.3 33.5 29.8 1.8 17.0 51.3
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The interaction between dilution and combustion is clearly apparent when
the deliveries of components in the mainstream and sidestream are combined to
provide a total delivery. As shown in Figure 3, the total delivery as a function
of dilution differs for various materials. As dilution is increased distillable
components such as nicotine and water have relatively constant total deliveries.
Both are reduced in the mainstream at higher dilutions, but these reductions are
offset by increases in sidestrcam delivery (considerably more of both compo-
nents is found in the sidestream). The total delivery of tar that can be consid-
ered as an incomplete combustion product is_ strongly reduced as dilution is
increased. On the other hand, CO., which is a final product of combustion, ustion, is
strongly increased. An intermediate combustion product, CO, also decreases
slightly as dilution increases, which indicates that air-diluted cigarettes do not,
as is fiequently supposed, provide more of an environmental burden than their
undiluted counterparts. The pattern shown here indicates that as dilution is
ror
tu4.
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0
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Figure 3
Tqrl dalivery as a funcuon of dilution
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increased there is a more complete combustion of the tobacco approaching that
occurring in a free-buming cigarette where all materials are going into the
sidestream.
CONCLUSION
To summarize, it is found that filtration and dilution are powerful tools for the
reduction of smoke component delivery. Filters that operate principally on the
particulate phase of tobacco smoke can remove one-ha)f or more of the smoke
particles presented to them. Dilution, particularly filter dilution operates on
both the gaseous and particulate phases. Because of interactions between
dilution, fiitration, and combustion, vented cigarettes deliver more or less of
many smoke components than might be expected from the dilution levels. By
an appropriate combination of these physical techniques, it is possible to design
cigarettes with almost any level of delivery of tar, nicotine, and gaseous
components. The fact that there are commercial brands available now with
extremely low deliveries of these materials indicates that the tobacco industry is
responsive to the need for such products. The only real barrier to a wide usage
of these products is their acceptance by the smoking public.
As for future trends, it does not currently seem as though there will he any
major change in the make-up of cigarettes, such as a revolutionary new filter or
dilution system. In years to come, more and more cigarettes will be highly
filtered and will increasingly incorporate dilution as a means of modification of
the smoke stream. Low and very low-tar cigarettes will continue to supplant
current brands, probably not at the very rapid pace of the past few years, but
before too many years have passed they should represent the major portion of
the U.S. cigarette market.
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