Patent ID: 6688313
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: A24C,A24D,A24F

Abstract:
An electrical smoking system comprising:a cigarette comprising a tubular tobacco mat partially filled with tobacco material so as to define a filled tobacco rod portion and an unfilled tobacco rod portion, said filled tobacco rod portion being adjacent a free end of said cigarette; and a lighter comprising an electrical heater element and a system for electrically actuating said heater element, said lighter arranged to at least partially receive said cigarette; said cigarette and said lighter being mutually arranged so that when the cigarette is received in said lighter, said electrical heater element of the lighter at least partially superposes at least a portion of the filled tobacco rod portion; said cigarette and said lighter being mutually arranged so that when the cigarette is received in said lighter, said free end of said cigarette is occluded; said cigarette including a zone of perforations at a first location along said filled tobacco rod portion; said cigarette being free of perforations along said unfilled tobacco rod portion.