Patent ID: 6874623

Claim:
A smoking article package having a front wall, a back wall, two side walls, a top end wall, and a bottom end wall, said package comprising: a sealed enclosure of a layer of barrier material around a charge of smoking articles, a smoking article removal access aperture being defined in the barrier material layer, said aperture extending from the top end wall into one of said front wall or said back wall of said package, extending over said aperture and extending beyond all of the edges of said aperture a cover layer comprising a permanently tacky surface engagable with said barrier material layer adjacent to said edges of said aperture beyond said aperture and said layers comprising a non-adhesive pull-tab, whereby, after peeling back of said cover layer exposing said aperture, said enclosure can be resealed by re-engaging said permanently tacky surface of said cover layer with said barrier material layer adjacent to said edges beyond said aperture; and a sheet material wrap disposed exteriorly of said enclosure and extending over at least a portion of said cover layer and over said barrier layer adjacent thereto, said sheet material wrap having an elongate, laterally extending openly whereby the first peeling back of said sealed enclosure at said access aperture cannot take place without said wrap being torn or partially or fully removed and said pull tab projects through said laterally extending opening.