Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making
apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials
having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive material can
be applied as a coating formulation in an off-line manner to a continuous paper
sheet web that is later used for cigarette manufacture. The additive material can
be applied as a coating formulation in an on-line manner to continuous paper web
moving through an operating cigarette making machine. The coating formulation is
applied to the paper web using roll applicator techniques, ink jet printing techniques
or electrostatic precipitation techniques. Liquid coating formulation are curable,
and are virtually absent of solvent or liquid carrier. Radiation, such as ultraviolet
or electron beam radiation, is used to solidify and fix polymerizable liquid components
of the coating formulation that have been applied to the paper web. Heating and
subsequent cooling of the coating formulation used to fix solid components of the
coating formulation that have been applied to the paper web. Registration techniques
are used to ensure proper positioning of the additive material on the smokable
rods so manufactured, and to ensure proper quality of those cigarettes.