Product Design
No-Nicotine Product Development Plan
Abstract
Outlines product development plans for 1989, including developing "blends for NOW and VANTAGE LN products" and developing a "'no-nicotine' product with acceptable smoking characteristics for consumer testing of the 'no-nicotine' concept." Discusses plans for evaluating low/no nicotine leaf and processed tobaccos, using other ingredients to achieve low nicotine yields, and developing testing methods for the resulting low/no nicotine products. Attaches a list of ingredients and an outline for cigarette design, including silica gel, active carbons, and nicotine dilution using glycerin and other aerosol former. Includes an outline of things which will require chemistry/biochemistry support, such as nicotine removal from the leaves, nicotine removal from extracts, burn rate control, and materials approval.
User-Contributed Notes
Fields
- Hypothesis
- Introduction of new/unconventional productsResearch and development of novel nicotine delivery devices and experimental tobacco designs.
- Low-yield cigarettes
Modification of low yield products to assure that adequate levels of nicotine delivery are maintained, and effects of yield changes on toxicity and dependence.- Use of additives
Modification of tobacco products through use of additives and measuring effects on dependence, behavior, and toxicity.- Use of tobacco processing/ blends
Modification of tobacco products through changes in tobacco processing and use of blends, and measuring effects on dependence, behavior, and toxicity. - Low-yield cigarettes
- Keyword
- "No-nicotine" product
- Myvatem
- Nicotine
- dilution
- CRS
- Myvatem
- Additive
- Cellulose (Cellulose Fiber)
- Citric acid
- Silica gel
- Calcium carbonate
- Citric acid
- Design Component
- Nicotine content (Tobacco nicotine content)Total nicotine in the unburnt tobacco rod
- Carbonized filler
- Cellulose sheet
- Cocoa bean hulls
- Carbon paper plug
- G7 (RJR @reconstituted_tobacco)
- Carbonized filler
- Named Organization
- Kimberly-Clark Corp. (Specializes in the tobacco reconstitution process)Specializes in the tobacco reconstitution process and in helping the tobacco companies control their nicotine
- Eastman Kodak Co. (Kodak) (Cigarette filter mfg from 1950s to 1994.)
Manufacturers of quality control equipment for cigarette packaging - Eastman Kodak Co. (Kodak) (Cigarette filter mfg from 1950s to 1994.)
- Brand
- Now (RJR)
- Vantage (RJR)
- Subject
- Low Yield Cigarettes (Products)
- nicotine technology
- Levulinic Acid (Additives)
reduces the harshness of cigarettes - nicotine technology
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NO-NICOTINE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PLAN
I. Objective
Evaluate alternative materials and configurations which will allow
consumer-acceptable products to be developed with blend nicotine or smoke
nicotine levels in keeping with Marketing objectives.
II. Scope
Scope of product development in 1989 will be affected by the goals of
Marketing objective(s). While Project LNA is limited in scope, many of
the ingredients and cigarette design parameters which may be used for a
"no-nicotine" product can be evaluated within this project. Additional
evaluation of leaf and ingredients will be needed for the more aggressive
nicotine goals which might be envisioned. A vital part of the product
development program will be development of consumer testing which will
give assessment of the acceptability (both short- and long-term) of low/
no nicotine products.
III. Product Development Plan - 1989
* Develop blends for NOW and VANTAGE LN products
* Develop a "no-nicotine" product with acceptable smoking
characteristics for consumer testing of the "no-nicotine" concept
* Evaluate the smoking quality of low/no nicotine leaf and processed
tobaccos from Agricultural Science and PT&D programs
* Determine the applicability (smoke quality and nicotine yield) of
other ingredients which might be used (list attached) to achieve
very low nicotine yields
* Determine the extent to which configuration can be used to further
reduce nicotine yield (list attached)
* With SED and MRD, develop testing methods to assess the
acceptability of low/no nicotine products
INGREDIENTS
* Reduced density tobacco
- Washed CRS
- Washed, puffed stems
- Engineered tobacco forms
* Reduced nicotine G7
G7NX
G7 with added cellulose (tobacco or other)
G7 with added non-combustible, non-tobacco extender
G7DN
Low nicotine G7
* Inert fillers (separate or as ingredient in G7)
- CaC03
- Carbonized filler
- Cellulose sheet
- Cocoa bean hulls
- J10
CIGARETTE DESIGN
1. Selective Removal
* Silica gel
10/15% reduction in smoke nicotine
Baumgartner (cavity filter)
Commercially available
Mainstream taste marginally affected
* Active carbons
10/15% reduction in smoke nicotine
Baumgartner (cavity filter)
Commercially available
Negative mainstream taste impact
* Myvatem
10/15% reduction in smoke nicotine
Eastman
Scalable in 18 months
No mainstream taste impact
* Tobacco paper plug treated with 20/25% citric acid
- 20/50% reduction in a NN prototype
- Kimberly-Clark
- Commercially available
* Carbon paper plug treated with 20/25% citric acid
- 20/50% reduction in a NN prototype
- Kimberly-Clark
- Commercially available
* Levulinic acid at .5% on PP filter
10/15% reduction in a NN prototype
Kimberly-Clark
Commercially available
* Levulinic acid at .5% on PP filter plus a carbon paper plug with 20/25%
citric acid
- 50% or more reduction on a NN prototype
- Kimberly-Clark
- Availability Pilot Plant only
II. Nicotine Dilution
- glycerin
- other aerosol former
CHEMISTRY/BIOCHEMISTRY SUPPORT
Chemical, biochemical, and biological support will be needed to provide
information on the following:
* Nicotine removal from leaf
- Solvents
- Vapor pressure/time/atmosphere relationship
- Chemical state of nicotine
- Physical form of tobacco
* Nicotine removal from extracts
Extraction
Complexation
Adsorption
Reaction
* Burn rate control
* Materials approval
- chemistry
- biological testing
