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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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More Heat not Burn science – Glo has been tested!

BAT Glo testedReading Time: 4 minutes

Back in April we looked at the latest research on the safety of iQOS heated tobacco products compared to traditional cigarettes, and it looked very encouraging for heat not burn devices. Studies carried out for PMI by independent labs found that the vapour from an iQOS had much lower levels of toxic chemicals than cigarette smoke – in most cases, 90% or 95% lower. That’s impressive, especially considering that the tests looked at a much larger range of chemicals than any research done by public health groups.

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