The Effect of Different Cigarette Papers on the Properties and the Taste of Cigarettes/Der Einfluss ungleichartigen Cigarettenpapiers auf die Eigenschaften und den Geschmack der Cigarette

Ten sorts of cigarette paper with differing physical properties, made of the raw materials Iinen, sulphate cellulose and “viskose”, which had been impregnated with citrate, phosphate or nitrate, were examined. The cigarettes made from these, which all contained the same blend of tobacco, were 7.95 × 80 mm and had an average weight of 1.070 g at 11.5 % moisture, were compared with each other in taste and in laboratory tests. A variation of the surface weight between 20.5 g/m² and 24.5 g/m² had no noteworthy influence on the properties of the cigarette. For the impregnation of the paper citrate is more desirable than the other salts investigated. The cigarettes made with paper impregnated with citrate provide the best looking ash and were favoured by the smokers of the taste panel. Cigarettes made with paper impregnated with nitrate and phosphate are stronger and more mordant and, furthermore, they have a bitter “after taste”, except those made with “viskose” paper. As the porosity of the paper increases the totaI condensate amount decreases. The “smouldering speed” of the cigarette increases somewhat. The members of the taste panel in each case preferred the milder cigarettes with the more porous paper. Paper made from linen, the most usual raw material nowadays for making cigarette paper, was compared with sulphate cellulose and “viskose” paper. Paper of sulphate cellulose is by comparison not very porous and gives the cigarette's taste tart qualities. “Viskose”, on the other hand, can be used to make very porous paper, the physical qualities of which come up to or even exceed those of linen paper. It was not possible to prove by the tests whether “viskose” paper negatively influences the taste of the cigarettes.