Category: LATEST HEAT NOT BURN NEWS

All the very latest heat not burn news right here in one place.

This is where you will find all the very latest news on heat not burn and heated tobacco products. Although heated tobacco has been around for a few years only now is it starting to really gain some traction in the harm reduction sphere. We follow all the latest trends and report them right here on our blog.

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Posted on 9th October 201913th February 2021 by FergusM — Leave a comment

iQOS in the USA – Bad timing, or good luck?

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It feels like it’s taken forever, but iQOS is now on sale in the USA. Although it hasn’t officially launched yet, Philip Morris International’s first American iQOS Store has been in “soft operational mode” for almost three weeks now. The FDA granted iQOS a Pre Market Tobacco Authorisation back in April, so PMI haven’t exactly rushed to get the shop open, but it’s there now and Atlantans have the chance to legally try Heat not Burn for the first time.

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Posted on 1st October 201913th February 2021 by FergusM — Leave a comment

Just how safe is heat not burn?

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One of the things you’ll hear a lot from anti-smokers is that 70% of smokers want to quit. If you actually talk to smokers you’ll probably hear a very different answer. Most of them don’t want to quit at all, because the truth is they enjoy smoking. They know they should quit, because smoking is undeniably bad for your health, but that’s not quite the same as actually wanting to. If scientists announced tomorrow that they’d got it all wrong and smoking was completely safe, you can bet nobody’d be interested in quitting. The appeal of Heat not Burn products is that, potentially, they can offer the enjoyment of smoking without most of the health risks. That raises a crucial question: How safe are HnB products really?

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Posted on 23rd September 20192nd November 2021 by Paul — Leave a comment

USA: Home of Prohibition

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As conflation between ecigs & vaping continues, public health will suffer

Well. Where to start with the debacle currently playing out in the US?

At the end of last month (August), there were reports of serious lung problems among the US population which, to begin with, were solely attributed to “vaping” (or “e-cigarettes” depending on which media outlet was reporting it) although the cases were logged much earlier. The numbers being reported (starting at around 200, and rapidly rising) were a cause for concern.

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