Carl F Berger

US Patent:

7538071, May 26, 2009

Filed:

Nov 21, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/719295

Inventors:

Carl Berger - Highlands NJ, US

International Classification:

A01N 25/00
A01N 37/00
A01N 63/00
A01N 65/00
A24F 47/00
A24B 15/00
A24B 15/24
A24B 15/30
A61K 38/44

US Classification:

504189, 131270, 131290, 131297, 131310, 5041161, 504117, 504320, 504335, 424 944

Abstract:

The present invention is directed to a method of reducing the nicotine content of a tobacco plant to less than addictive levels. The method includes the step of administering to the tobacco plant an effective amount of a nicotine reducing agent sufficient to reduce the level of nicotine in the tobacco plant so that the resulting nicotine content in the plant is reduced to a level wherein a tobacco product produced from the plant will yield a non-addictive level of nicotine in the central nervous system blood plasma of the user. The present invention is further directed to tobacco plants prepared by the method.

US Patent:

57133760, Feb 3, 1998

Filed:

May 13, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/645424

Inventors:

Carl Berger - Highlands NJ

International Classification:

A24B 1510
A24B 1518
A24F 4700

US Classification:

131270

Abstract:

Cut tobacco used for processing cigarettes or other smoking articles is reacted with an agent such as an oxidant or subject to an extraction/removal process for a suitable period of time, dependent upon the nicotine content, the oxidant employed and the reaction temperature or extraction condition, or distillation, such that the nicotine embedded in the leaf is then converted into nicotinic acid or niacin. Sufficient conversion or extraction or distilled is allowed to occur so that either no nicotine or only a minimal amount of free nicotine remains in the smoking article. Upon intake into the lungs and hence the blood stream of the smoker or other tobacco user, the smoker or tobacco user will result in a blood plasma content of nicotine ranging from 0 to less than about 5 nanograms per milliliter of blood plasma. This effectively insures that the addictive process in smoking or other tobacco intake cannot he initiated or maintained. Nicotinic acid or niacin is not an addictive component of the tobacco.