VENTILATED SMOKING ARTICLE INCLUDING SORBENT MATERIAL

摘要

A smoking article (10) comprises: a tobacco rod (12); and a filter (14) connected to the tobacco rod and comprising one or more filter segments (16) circumscribed by a filter wrapper (18), including a sorbent material (20). The filter includes a ventilation zone (24) provided upstream of the sorbent material (20). The level of mainstream gas phase smoke constituents delivered (14) during smoking of the smoking article (10) with the ventilation zone (24) open is within up to 40% of the level of mainstream gas phase smoke delivered during smoking of the smoking article (10) with the ventilation zone (24) blocked.