Latest PMI Science Booklet

      Summarizing our goals, our approach, and our science

      Updated: 27 April 2023

      The PMI Science Booklet condenses the information about our smoke-free products into a convenient format, making it easier to share with scientists, regulators, and others interested in learning about PMI Science’s key results.

      As before, this April edition of the booklet puts the spotlight on the tobacco heating system, the most advanced of our smoke-free products. This booklet provides the most up-to-date findings on our assessment program. It includes the vital discovery that there is no burning in the tobacco heating system, the findings around the positive impact on smokers’ health, and the use behavior and the real-world data, and much more.

      Besides an updated infographic outlining facts and figures on our research program, there is also an updated timeline spanning from 2008 before our R&D center was even open, until 2025 when we aim to see 40 million of our smokers switching to our smoke-free products.

      Download the PDF to explore the most up-to-date information about PMI’s scientific assessment program of our smoke-free products.

      PMI Science leaflet

      In addition to the PMI Science Booklet, we have also designed a leaflet that provides a brief snapshot of our research in a handful of pages. Browse the leaflet below, summarizing PMI's vision, key facts & figures, and introducing our scientific approach:

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      Reduced Risk Products ("RRPs”) is the term we use to refer to products that present, are likely to present, or have the potential to present less risk of harm to smokers who switch to these products versus continuing smoking. PMI has a range of RRPs in various stages of development, scientific assessment and commercialization. Our RRPs are smoke-free products that produce an aerosol that contains far lower quantities of harmful and potentially harmful constituents than found in cigarette smoke.