Abstract: A cigarette which produces a decreased amount of tar when being smoked. In the cigarette (10) of the invention, a fire-retarding agent is present inside or on the outer surface of a rolling material (14), and a combustion promoter is present in shredded tobacco (12) or on the inner surface of the rolling material (14).

Abstract: The smoking composition referring to the reconstituted tobacco or tobacco substitute and composing of natural tobacco material and/or organic or inorganic material(s), which are combustible as raw materials, and of CMC-Na as binder, is heated at 110.degree.-240.degree. C., preferably at 150.degree.-200.degree. C., desirably for 150-5 minutes, so as to reduce the moisture content thereof to 1% and below. The smoking composition thus heating-processed exhibits a markedly superior water-resistance to the smoking composition not heating-processed, while the former exhibits equal physical properties except water-resistance and organoleptic properties to the latter.