Pack # | Sampler member (if applicable) | Brand name and variant (# of crushable flavour capsules) | Country | Name Abbreviation | Total other flavour compounds (TOFCs)† (mg/cig) | Menthol (#90) (mg/cig) | Flavour category‡ | Total fruit flavour compounds (TFFCs)§ (mg/cig) | Total non-menthol non- fruit, flavour compounds (TNMNFFCs)¶ (mg/cig) | Triacetin (#124) (mg/cig) |
1 | − | Marlboro ‘Fusion Shine’ (1) | Mexico | M-FS | 3.43 | 8.42 | M+4 | 3.27 | 0.16 | 6.50 |
2 | − | ◯ Lucky Strike ‘Convertibles’ blue” (1) | Mexico | LS-CB | 2.36 | 9.18 | M+3 | 0.33 | 2.03 | 17.3 |
3 | blue | ◯ Lucky Strike ‘Flow Filter’ March/blue (1) | Mexico | LS-M/b | 2.26 | 9.25 | M+3 | 0.29 | 1.97 | 16.7 |
4 | − | ◻ Marlboro ‘Velvet Fusion Blast’ (2) | Mexico | M-VFB | 1.87 | 11.0 | M+2 | 1.48 | 0.39 | 11.2 |
5 | − | ◻ Marlboro ‘Double Fusion Velvet’ (2) | Mexico | M-DFV | 1.63 | 11.3 | M+2 | 1.29 | 0.34 | 10.1 |
6 | light green | Lucky Strike ‘Flow Filter’ October/lt. green (1) | Mexico | LS-O/lg | 1.41 | 4.62 | M+2 | 0.74 | 0.67 | 16.5 |
7 | − | Benson & Hedges ‘Polar Pearls’ (2) | Mexico | BH-PP | 1.36 | 11.9 | M+2 | 1.15 | 0.21 | 11.3 |
8 | − | ♢ Marlboro ‘Amber’ (2) | Mexico | M-A | 1.27 | 7.88 | M+2 | 1.08 | 0.19 | 10.8 |
9 | − | ♢ Marlboro ‘Double Fusion Amber’ (2) | Mexico | M-DFA | 1.27 | 7.88 | M+2 | 1.10 | 0.17 | 7.90 |
10 | − | Pall Mall/XL ‘Mystery’ (2) | Mexico | PM-Mys | 1.18 | 6.12 | M+2 | 1.15 | 0.03 | 11.5 |
11 | − | Marlboro ‘Capsula Fresca’ (1) | Mexico | M-CF | 0.81 | 4.65 | M+1 | 0.03 | 0.78 | 9.12 |
3 | orange | Lucky Strike ‘Flow Filter’ March/orange (1) | Mexico | LS-M/o | 0.71 | 7.80 | M+1 | 0.51 | 0.20 | 18.4 |
12 | − | Lucky Strike ‘Convertibles’ purple (1) | Mexico | LS-CP | 0.70 | 4.64 | M+1 | 0.67 | 0.03 | 17.3 |
13 | − | Pall Mall/XL ‘Tokyo Midnight’ (2) | Mexico | PM-TM | 0.68 | 8.66 | M+1 | 0.39 | 0.29 | 12.5 |
6 | purple | Lucky Strike ‘Flow Filter’ October/purple (1) | Mexico | LS-O/p | 0.63 | 6.56 | M+1 | 0.60 | 0.03 | 16.9 |
14 | − | Marlboro ‘uby Fusion Blast’ (2) | Mexico | M-RFB | 0.58 | 10.3 | M+1 | 0.38 | 0.20 | 13.1 |
3 | red | △ Lucky Strike ‘Flow Filter’ March/red (1) | Mexico | LS-M/r | 0.56 | 2.97 | M+1 | 0.54 | 0.02 | 17.4 |
6 | red | △ Lucky Strike ‘Flow Filter’ October/red (1) | Mexico | LS-O/r | 0.56 | 3.82 | M+1 | 0.54 | 0.02 | 16.8 |
15 | − | Pall Mall/XL ‘Black Edition/Maui Crepuscule’ (1) | Mexico | PM-Maui | 0.56 | 5.40 | M+1 | 0.53 | 0.03 | 11.8 |
16 | − | Marlboro ‘Double Fusion Ruby’ (2) | Mexico | M-DFR | 0.55 | 10.6 | M+1 | 0.36 | 0.19 | 9.79 |
6 | green | Lucky Strike ‘Flow Filter’ October/green (1) | Mexico | LS-O/g | 0.53 | 8.27 | M+1 | 0.24 | 0.29 | 19.4 |
17 | − | Chesterfield ‘Caps Purple’ (1) | Mexico | C-CP | 0.47 | 5.94 | M+1 | 0.37 | 0.10 | 9.78 |
18 | − | Benson & Hedges ‘Crystal Violet’ (1) | Mexico | BH-CV | 0.42 | 5.05 | M+1 | 0.35 | 0.07 | 4.39 |
19 | − | Pall Mall/XL ‘Black Edition/Ibiza Sunset’ (1) | Mexico | PM-IS | 0.41 | 3.18 | M+1 | 0.40 | 0.01 | 10.6 |
20 | − | Pall Mall ‘Wave’ (1) | Mexico | PM-W | 0.39 | 3.37 | M+1 | 0.38 | 0.01 | 7.90 |
3 | green | Lucky Strike ‘Flow Filter’ March/green (1) | Mexico | LS-M/g | 0.32 | 6.17 | M+1 | 0.18 | 0.14 | 19.3 |
21 | − | Pall Mall/XL ‘Mykonos Nightfall’ (1) | Mexico | PM-Myk | 0.15 (0.65)** | 5.89 | M+1 | 0.03 (0.53)** | 0.12 | 13.9 |
22 | − | Benson & Hedges ‘Crystal Blue’ (1) | Mexico | BH-CB | 0.12 | 6.77 | M | 0.01 | 0.11 | 8.97 |
23 | − | Next ‘Green’ (0) | Canada | N-G | 0.01 | <0.01 | NF | <0.01 | ~0 | 3.07 |
24 | − | John Player ‘Choice’ (0) | Canada | JP-C | 0.01 | <0.01 | NF | 0.01 | ~0 | 9.63 |
25 | − | Benson and Hedges ‘Unison’ (0) | Canada | BH-U | 0.01 | ND†† | NF | 0.01 | ~0 | 6.66 |
26 | − | Camel ‘North, Aqua Filter’ (0) | Canada | C-NA | <0.01 | ND | NF | <0.01 | ~0 | 8.58 |
27 | − | Du Maurier ‘Nano Blue’ (0) | Canada | DM-NB | <0.01 | <0.01 | NF | <0.01 | ~0 | 14.5 |
All Lucky Strike from Mexico—average ±SD: | 1.00±0.74 | 6.33±2.26 | 17.61±1.06 | |||||||
All Pall Mall from Mexico—average ±SD: | 0.64±0.29 | 5.44±2.02 | 11.35±2.03 | |||||||
All Marlboro from Mexico—average ±SD: | 1.43±0.94 | 9.02±2.26 | 9.81±2.03 | |||||||
All Benson & Hedges from Mexico—average ±SD: | 0.63±0.65 | 7.91±3.56 | 8.22±3.52 | |||||||
US Brands (no of crushable flavour capsules) | ||||||||||
28 | − | Camel ‘Crush’ (menthol) (1) | CC-M/U.S. | 0.03 | 3.05 | M | 0.01 | ~0 | 9.50 | |
29 | − | Nat Sherman ‘Menthol’ (0) | NS-M/U.S. | 0.01 | 2.92 | M | 0.01 | ~0 | 11.6 | |
30 | − | Natural American Spirit ‘Menthol’ (0) | NAS-M | 0.03 | 2.63 | M | 0.01 | ~0 | 5.80 | |
31 | − | Marlboro ‘menthol’ (0) | M-M/U.S. | 0.13 | 2.10 | M | 0.12 | 0.01 | 8.11 | |
32 | − | Newport (menthol) (0) | Np-M/U.S. | 0.01 | 1.58 | M | 0.01 | ~0 | 5.90 |
*The Lucky Strike ‘Flow Filter’ March pack (Mexico) contained four flavour variants in the pack as colour coded on the filter: blue (b), orange (o), green (g) and red (r). The Lucky Strike ‘Flow Filter’ October pack (Mexico) also contained four flavour variants in the pack as colour coded on the filter: light green (lg), green (g), purple (p), red (r).
†TOFCs=total other flavour chemicals (excludes menthol, excludes triacetin).
‡M=menthol only; M-4+=menthol plus 4 mg/cig>TOFCS > 3 mg/cig; M-3+=menthol plus 3 mg/cig>TOFCS > 2 mg/cig; M-2+=menthol plus 2 mg/cig>TOFCS > 1 mg/cig; M-1+=menthol 1 mg/cig>TOFCS > 0.3 mg/cig; NF=not flavoured.
§TFFCs=total fruit flavour compounds (compounds considered to be in the ‘fruit’ and ‘mint’ groups are identified in online supplemental table 1.
¶TNMNFFCs=total non-menthol non-fruit flavour compounds.
**The non-target flavour compound 6Z-nonenal (CAS 2277-19-2) was tentatively identified as also being present (at ~0.5 mg/cigarette).
††ND=not detected.