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Table 2 

 A Sampler of Alternative Nicotine Delivery Devices 



Company 



Patent 



Comment 



BAT 

 (1990) 



Brown & 

 Williamson 

 (1990) 



4,945,929 



4,945,931 



Imperial Group 4,340,072 

 Limited (1982) 



Philip Morris 5,144,962 

 (1992) 



Philip Morris 5,240,012 

 (1993) 



Procter & 4,735,217 

 Gamble (1988) 



Aerosol device simulating a 

 smoking article, explicitly 

 designed for dispensing nicotine 



Aerosol simulated smoking 

 device, mentions delivery of 

 flavor only; no mention of nicotine 



Cigarette-like device with a fuel 

 rod core surrounded by inhalant 

 material . "Among the reasons why 

 most people smoke conventional 

 cigarettes is that they wish to 

 inhale an aerosol containing 

 nicotine." "The aerosol material 

 may, as an alternative to a 

 flavourant solution, comprise a 

 solution of a flavourant and/or 

 nicotine in triacetin or benzyl 

 benzoate. Any psycho-active or 

 physiologically active compound 

 such as ephedrine or a nicotine/ 

 ephedrine mixture may be used... ." 



Electrically powered flavor- 

 delivery article for the delivery 

 of "tobacco flavor components" to 

 "produce the taste and sensation of 

 smoking without burning tobacco." 



Disposable carbon heat source and 

 "tobacco flavor producing element" 

 ejectable after use from a reusable 

 holder. While similar devices are 

 described as producing a "nicotine- 

 containing aerosol," the word 

 "nicotine" is not used at all in 

 reference to this article. 



Dosing device to provide vaporized 

 medicament to the lungs as a fine 

 aerosol. Battery operated heater 

 designed to deliver nicotine or a 

 nicotine salt "to satisfy the 

 smoker's craving for nicotine... ." 



