Heat not burn cigarettes: what are they?
If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves Philip Morris' IQOS (I-Quit-Ordinary-Smoking), a form of "heat-not-burn" tobacco product, a new kind of tobacco product may soon be available on American stores.
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Public health experts are worried that these products might be additional means of causing addiction in people, particularly children and young adults, and that they could encourage the use of several tobacco products concurrently, despite the tobacco industry's assertions that they are less harmful than cigarettes. It's also possible that the gadgets are an attempt to mainstream smoking, which has dropped to a record low 6 percent among teenagers.
What you should know about heat-not-burn products, the newest big thing from the tobacco indust...