that it is in flow communication with both the material of the fuel column 12 and the channel 16 the filter rod 14 has a high mass so that it will cool and disperse the hot gases the filter rod 14 is attached to the fuel column 12 by a circumscribing tipping material 24 which circumferentially overlaps the adjacent end of the fuel column 12 the tipping material 24 can be permeable to air so that ambient air can flow into the body of the filter rod now with reference to fig3 and 4 there is shown a smoking article generally denoted as the numeral 110 of the present invention which includes a generally cylindrical fuel column 112 and a filter 114 the fuel column 112 has a first or inner column 115 fabricated of a tobacco material including an aerosol forming material such as glycerine and a second or outer column 117 fabricated of a combustible fuel material other than tobacco such as charcoal the inner column 115 is concentric with and longitudinally coextensive with the outer column 117 the fuel column 112 is formed with a hollow channel 116 which is concentric with and extends longitudinally coextensively with the inner column 115 so that it is open to both ends 118 and 120 of the fuel column 112 the wall of the channel 116 is corrugated with the corrugations extending longitudinally of the channel 116 the entire length of the channel 116 the fuel column 112 can be circumferentially wrapped with a paper wrapper 122 if the paper wrapper 122.