Smoking Tobacco
Cigarette
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Parts of the Model
- Filter Plug A crimped bundle of acetate fibers bonded with triacetin. It sets the draw resistance and traps part of the particulate phase of the smoke.
- Plug Wrap Holds the tow in a round plug. It is highly porous so that air drawn in through the tipping perforations can reach the filter.
- Tipping Paper Joins the filter to the tobacco rod. The laser-perforated rows let outside air dilute the smoke as it is drawn.
- Cigarette Paper Wraps the tobacco rod. Citrate burn additives control the burn rate, and the two low ignition propensity bands make an unattended cigarette more likely to go out.
- Tobacco Rod Shredded leaf lamina mixed with expanded stem and reconstituted sheet, formed into a continuous rod on the maker and cut to length.
Tobacco products intended to be burned, with the resulting smoke inhaled by the user. This category includes manufactured cigarettes, roll-your-own cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, pipe tobacco, and waterpipe tobacco. The defining characteristic is the combustion of tobacco.
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