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Bull. Spec. CORESTA Congress, Lisbon, 2000, p. 192, T2

The comparative analysis of smoke components delivered from cigarette papers manufactured by flax and wood pulp

KIM Jong-Yeol; KIM Chung-Ryul; SHIN Chang-Ho
Korea Ginseng and Tobacco Research Institute, Daejon, South Korea.
This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of two cigarette papers, flax and wood, on the delivery of mainstream smoke. The main components of two cigarette papers were cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, and pectin. Lignin content, known as precursor of smoke's phenolic compounds, in the flax and wood cigarette papers was 5.8% and 10.6%, respectively. The pyrolysis products of two cigarette papers were similar by the profile of total ion chromatogram. But, the area % of some components, such as 1,3-cyclopentanedione, 3,5-dimethyl cyclopentane-1,2-dione, 2-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-cyclopentenone, dihydro-2(3H)-furanone, 3-methyl-2(5H)-fruanone, and 5-methyl-2-furaldehyde in the flax cigarette paper were higher than those of wood cigarette paper. Otherwise, the area % of some components, such as 2-methyl-cyclopentene-1-one, 2,3-butanedione, 2-cyclopentene-1-one, and 5-hydroxy methyl-2-furaldehyde, 2-furaldehyde in the wood cigarette paper were higher than those of flax cigarette paper. To identify the difference of two cigarette papers, we used the cigarette column filled with the cut cigarette paper instead of the cut tobacco leaf. The amounts of semi-volatile fraction delivered from flax cigarette paper was more than that of wood cigarette paper. But, by using the cut tobacco of 88 Lights blending, there was no big difference of delivery amount between flax and wood cigarette papers. Also, aroma of TPM by collecting from 88 Lights blending cut tobacco wrapped in flax and wood papers showed a different pattern by the electronic nose system . Although the difference of two cigarette papers by using the cut tobacco was smaller than that of cut cigarette paper, this result indicated that the flax and wood have different effects on the delivery of smoke components as shown in the sensory test results.