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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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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.
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.
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.