What utter rubbish!
According to a South China Morning Post article on 28 October 2019, Philip Morris’s president for East Asia and Australia, Paul Riley "pointed out that heated tobacco products were not the same as e-cigarettes, which have been linked to more than one thousand cases of illnesses and 34 deaths in the US. While in e-cigarettes, a cartridge of solution that usually contains nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerine, flavourings and other chemicals are heated up, in heated tobacco products, only a tobacco stick is involved."
Riley is trying to emphasize the distinction between heated tobacco products (HTP) and liquid-based e-cigarettes in order to distance HTPs from the "more than one thousand cases of illnesses and 34 deaths in the US linked to e-cigarettes," but:
1. Aerosols (not vapor) emitted by HTPs also contain nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerine, flavorings, and various other toxicants and chemicals.
2. He fails to mention that Altria (Philip Morris in the US) owns 35% of Juul, which is an e-cigarette company that uses nicotine salts in its e-cigarettes and holds over 70% of the US e-cigarette market.
3. He also fails to mention that Philip Morris also makes its own e-cigarettes branded as IQOS MESH, and aside from Juul, Philip Morris has another nicotine salt e-cigarette called STEEM.
4. Some HTPs heat up a cartridge of liquid, whose aerosol is then passed through a tobacco plug/capsule.
5. There is no evidence that proves that HTPs are less harmful than cigarettes. Even if some toxicants appear to be less than those in cigarettes, there are more of some other toxicants.
6. The US FDA's tobacco advisory panel rejected PMI's claim that IQOS is safer than conventional cigarettes. Even if allowed for sale in the US, the FDA prohibits Philip Morris form making any claims of reduced harm or modified risk.
According to a South China Morning Post article on 28 October 2019, Philip Morris’s president for East Asia and Australia, Paul Riley "pointed out that heated tobacco products were not the same as e-cigarettes, which have been linked to more than one thousand cases of illnesses and 34 deaths in the US. While in e-cigarettes, a cartridge of solution that usually contains nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerine, flavourings and other chemicals are heated up, in heated tobacco products, only a tobacco stick is involved."
Riley is trying to emphasize the distinction between heated tobacco products (HTP) and liquid-based e-cigarettes in order to distance HTPs from the "more than one thousand cases of illnesses and 34 deaths in the US linked to e-cigarettes," but:
1. Aerosols (not vapor) emitted by HTPs also contain nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerine, flavorings, and various other toxicants and chemicals.
2. He fails to mention that Altria (Philip Morris in the US) owns 35% of Juul, which is an e-cigarette company that uses nicotine salts in its e-cigarettes and holds over 70% of the US e-cigarette market.
3. He also fails to mention that Philip Morris also makes its own e-cigarettes branded as IQOS MESH, and aside from Juul, Philip Morris has another nicotine salt e-cigarette called STEEM.
4. Some HTPs heat up a cartridge of liquid, whose aerosol is then passed through a tobacco plug/capsule.
5. There is no evidence that proves that HTPs are less harmful than cigarettes. Even if some toxicants appear to be less than those in cigarettes, there are more of some other toxicants.
6. The US FDA's tobacco advisory panel rejected PMI's claim that IQOS is safer than conventional cigarettes. Even if allowed for sale in the US, the FDA prohibits Philip Morris form making any claims of reduced harm or modified risk.
