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Quotes from Industry Patents 



...the present inventlon...is particularly useful for the 

 maintenance of the proper amount of nicotine in tobacco 

 smoke. ...previous efforts have been made to add nicotine 

 to tobacco products wherein the nicotine level in the 

 tobacco was undesirably low. 

 -patent no. 3,584,630 C2:5-17 



object of this invention to provide a cigarette which 



delivers a larger amount of nicotine in the first few puffs 

 of the cigarette than in the last few puffs. 

 -patent no. 4,595,024 C2:23-2 



Moreover, the process is useful for transferring naturally 

 occurring nicotine from tobacco having a generally high 

 nicotine content to a nicotine-deficient tobacco, tobacco 

 filler materials, or RL (reconstituted leaf) which are used 

 in the production of cigarettes and other smoking 

 products... a low nicotine tobacco . .can also be used 

 as the nicotine donor... 

 -patent no. 4,215,706 01:40-48 



It is another object of this invention to provide a 

 process for the migration of nicotine from one tobacco 

 substrate (leaf material or reconstituted leaf) to a 

 second tobacco substrate (leaf material, reconstituted 

 leaf material or tobacco stems) or to a non-tobacco 

 substrate. 

 -patent no. 5,018,540 02:39-43 



