Abstract: A cigarette includes a tobacco rod in which a tobacco filler containing cut tobacco is wrapped with a cigarette paper, the tobacco rod being constituted by a distal end portion, a proximal end portion and a center portion, and a filter, the proximal end portion being connected to the filter. The distal end portion includes a volatile flavor-containing material incorporated in a gel of a polysaccharide, the center portion includes or does not include the volatile flavor-containing material, the proximal end portion includes or does not include the volatile flavor-containing material, and there is no case where both the center portion and the proximal end portion include the volatile flavor-containing material.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a unit which forms burn control agent coated regions on a web of a wrapping paper transferred by a wrapping paper transfer unit at a plurality of positions separated from each other in the longitudinal or in the width direction of the web, a unit which supplies chopped tobacco leaves to the wrapping paper after formation of the coated regions, a roll-up unit which rolls up the wrapping paper on which the chopped tobacco leaves are supplied, and a cigarette cutting unit which cuts the rolled-up wrapping paper together with the chopped tobacco leaves in a predetermined length of the cigarette in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: A smoking article is manufactured through supplying a tobacco filler material onto a tobacco wrapping paper sheet that is transferred, wrapping the tobacco filler material supplied onto the tobacco wrapping paper sheet with the tobacco wrapping paper sheet so as to prepare a rod body, and cutting the rod body into a plurality of tobacco rods each having a prescribed length. The tobacco filler material contains at least 20% by weight of expanded tobacco material. The tobacco wrapping paper sheet is coated with the burn adjusting agent during transfer of the tobacco wrapping paper sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a unit which forms burn control agent coated regions on a web of a wrapping paper transferred by a wrapping paper transfer unit at a plurality of positions separated from each other in the longitudinal or in the width direction of the web, a unit which supplies chopped tobacco leaves to the wrapping paper after formation of the coated regions, a roll-up unit which rolls up the wrapping paper on which the chopped tobacco leaves are supplied, and a cigarette cutting unit which cuts the rolled-up wrapping paper together with the chopped tobacco leaves in a predetermined length of the cigarette in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: A smoking article is manufactured through supplying a tobacco filler material onto a tobacco wrapping paper sheet that is transferred, wrapping the tobacco filler material supplied onto the tobacco wrapping paper sheet with the tobacco wrapping paper sheet so as to prepare a rod body, and cutting the rod body into a plurality of tobacco rods each having a prescribed length. The tobacco filler material contains at least 20% by weight of expanded tobacco material. The tobacco wrapping paper sheet is coated with the burn adjusting agent during transfer of the tobacco wrapping paper sheet.