Shredded tobacco leaf pellet, production process thereof and a cigarette-like snuff

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A shredded tobacco leaf pellet is composed of tobacco leaf shreds bound together with a nicotinenon-absorptive thermoplastic binder while retaining air permeability. The pellet is produced by mixing tobacco leaf shreds and a nicotine-non-absorptive thermoplastic binder, forming the resultant mixture into a desired shape while retaining air permeability and then, subjecting the thus-formed mixture to a heat treatment. A cigarette-like snuff is composed of at least one shredded tobacco leaf pellet of the above-described type and an outer envelope surrounding the pellet therein. The shredded tobacco leaf pellet can give sufficient feeling of smoking without lighting It is suited for mass …