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HnB “as bad as smoking” says study – but what’s the truth?

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And so it begins. A new paper presented to the American Heart Association claims that Heat not Burn products harm blood vessel function in the same way as smoking. No doubt there are a dozen other studies underway right now that will soon produce papers linking heated tobacco products to heart attacks, lung disease and various cancers. Carefully tailored press releases, all including some form of the phrase “as bad as smoking”, will be leaked to sympathetic journalists. Public health activists don’t even need to go looking for friendly hacks; they can just get in touch with the ones who wrote negative articles about e-cigarettes.

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Heat not burn products similar to smoking for heart disease? Confusing acute nicotine effects with long-term smoking effects

Dr Konstantinos FarsalinosReading Time: 4 minutes

Recently there has been a few negative news stories about heated tobacco products, this will increase as time goes by. Not all of it will be true, a lot of it will be utter nonsense. Here we are posting a rebuttal of one of the more recent “studies” coming out of the USA.

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KT&G Enter The Heated Tobacco Market With The Lil

KT&G Lil and FiitsReading Time: 3 minutes

Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation, better known as KT&G, are the leading tobacco company in South Korea. It looks like they have seen the light with regards to tobacco harm reduction, because they’ve just launched their very own heated tobacco product – the Lil.

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