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CORESTA Meeting, Smoke Science/Product Technology, 2015, Jeju, STPOST 31

Ignition propensity of cigarettes according to ISO 12863 using two different substrates

MAYR M.
Papierfabrik Wattens GmbH & Co KG / delfortgroup, Wattens, Austria

There are two standards available to determine the ignition propensity of cigarettes: ASTM E.2187-09 and ISO 12863. One of their main differences is that ISO 12863 allows the use of other substrate materials as an alternative to Whatman No. 2 filter paper as long as such substrates are equivalent. The target of this study was to determine if an alternative substrate, LIPCan filter paper produced by Tervakoski of delfortgroup, would be a proper candidate for a substrate. These filter papers comply with the requirements in section 7.3.2 in ISO 12863. Four different lower ignition propensity cigarettes with two different styles, king size and super slim, were used in this study. The cigarettes were tested according to ISO 12863 on Whatman No. 2 and LIPCan filter paper. The results show that every cigarette brand passed the test according to ISO 12863 and ASTM E.2187-09 on Whatman No. 2 and LIPCan filter paper.

In conclusion the results show that within the typical variation of the test according to ISO 12863 LIPCan filter paper is equivalent to Whatman No. 2 as no statistical difference between the results obtained with two substrates could be found at statistically significant levels of 95% or 99%.