Abstract: Cigarettes which yield low levels of visible sidestream smoke upon use employ a paper wrapping material having about 25 weight percent magnesium hydroxide, about 15 weight percent calcium carbonate and about 60 weight percent flax. The wrapping material has an inherent permeability of about 12 CORESTA units and a net permeability of about 100 to about 130 CORESTA units. The wrapping material containing an amount of water soluble alkali metal salt and water soluble alkali earth metal salt sufficient to provide at least about 20 mg water soluble alkali metal and alkali earth metal ions per gram of dry base web. The cigarettes, when employed, provide cohesive ash which is not highly flakey.