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Table 2, Sampler of Novel Devices, continued. 



RJ Reynolds 

 (1987) 



4,714,082 Premier. Multiple other patents 

 describe various aspects of this 

 and related devices. 



RJ Reynolds 

 (1990) 



4.947.874 Three separate patents for articles 



4.947.875 using electricity to heat tobacco, 

 4,922,901 a flavor generating aerosol, or a 



drug-delivering aerosol 



Comment: The BAT patent is for a device similar to the one 



patented by Brown & Williamson, but the US subsidiary 

 of BAT does not use the word "nicotine" at all, while 

 the delivery of nicotine is clearly the whole point of 

 the British device. 



The Imperial Group patent makes no pretense, either, 

 about what customers want: "they wish to inhale an 

 aerosol containing nicotine." 



Philip Morris avoids talking about nicotine in relation 

 to its inventions. 



Procter & Gamble see the main point of another battery- 

 operated, cigarette-like device as being the delivery 

 of nicotine to the customer without combustion to 

 satisfy a "craving" . 



RJ Reynolds' Premier has been discussed elsewhere, in 

 the FDA's docket on the two petitions about Premier 

 from 1988. The Company's battery-powered device can be 

 used like a cigarette, as a flavor dispenser, and as a 

 medication dispenser. 



