About Cigarettes

August 29, 2008

About cigarettes

The tobacco smoke is perhaps one of the most complex and most actively studied mixes in the world. The basic smoke jet - is a smoke, which gets to the smoker respiratory system – when he inhales, and a collateral smoke jet - a smoke which is allocated from the smoldering end of a cigarette. The complex structure of cigarette smoke is one of the difficulties with which researchers confront, at attempt to establish which components and substances of a tobacco smoke affect smoker health, provoking diseases associating with smoking.

What is the cigarette?

There are many kinds of cigarettes in the world. Smokers in the different countries prefer cigarettes of a variously strength and with various flavors and aromatic characteristics.

Tobacco

In cigarettes manufacture different sorts of tobacco are used, grown up in the different countries of the world and mixed definitely to satisfy various tastes of smokers. In cigarettes manufacture, as a rule, are used three basic types of tobacco: “virgin”, or tobacco of thermal drying, burley and oriental. Preferences of cigarette consumers in the different countries of the world are various. For example, in the Great Britain the majority of smokers prefer cigarettes of, so-called, English tobacco blending, which mainly consist from virgin tobacco, while in the USA many consumers choose American tobacco blending.

The cigarette paper

In cigarette manufacture is used a special air-penetrable paper which influences ashes formation stability and level of the smoking components. The paper of higher porosity (air permeability), is used by development of cigarettes with the low tar content.

The filter

The Filter is intended for reduction of smoke and it’s certain components penetrate in a smoker organism. The majority of filters are made from an organic fiber - cellulose. Cellulose does not possess own taste and is strong enough to keep the form (shape). Alongside with other elements of a cigarette structure, such as ventilation, use the filters with various efficiency of a filtration allows to reach a various level of tars and nicotine content, and finally – different strength and aroma intensity of tobacco smoke.

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