Filter tip cigarettes and method of manufacturing same

The invention relates to a filter-tip cigarette with a tobacco rod wrapped in a cigarette paper and a filter wrapped along its length in tipping paper or other wrapper being other than plugwrap, and a strip of material fully covering the tipping paper of the filter and the cigarette paper of the wrapped tobacco rod in the region of the abutment between tobacco rod and filter bonds together the filter and tobacco rod. In addition, the invention relates to a process for the manufacture of such a filter, which may also be employed for the manufacture of 'double unit cigarettes'.