Abstract: For the purpose of studing the different varieties of tea filter tip to reduce the hazards of smoking, different types of pretreated tea leaves were added into cigarette filter to make tea filter cigarettes, then sensory evaluation smoking was carried out and the tea whose aroma is coordinate with tobacco aroma was selected. Conventional ingredients of mainstream smoke of selected tea filter cigarettes was detected, then the chemical composition of mainstream smoke was analysed by GS-MS. Compared with the blank sample, different types of tea filter cigarettes showed the effect of lowering the content of nicotine and tar, among which the notable reduction rate is tippy tea filter tip, and the reduction rate of TPM, nicotine and tar was 14.35%, 10.47% and 14.66% respectively. Also these tippy tea filter cigarettes showed an obvious effect on the selective retention of the phenols of cocarcinogenie or carcinogenic existing in cigarette smoke, the reduction rate of o-phenylphenol and 2, 4-dimethyl-phenol is 90.4% and 84.9%. Aroma and mellowing smoke components were increased, increasing rate of furfural, solanone, megastigmatrienone, and limonene were 207.4%, 813.6%, 370% and 140.4% respectively. The results showed that tea filter tip can effectively reduce the harmful conponents in cigarette smoke and improve the tasting quality of cigarettes, and consistent with the development direction of Chinese-style cigarettes.

Key words: tea, tea filter tip, smoke constituents