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Scientific Update December 2022 Issue 17
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The 17th issue of the Scientific Update is co-edited by Dr. Luca Rossi, Vice President Product & Process Technology. This issue focuses on the science behind our smoke-free products, and the expansion of our smoke-free product portfolio. Product science enables product understanding, so that we can design and develop more relevant products faster and demonstrate the harm reduction potential of these products.
Our smoke-free products are broken into three main categories: heat-not-burn, e-vaping and oral smokeless, and all of them provide nicotine without burning tobacco in various ways. In this issue, we show how tobacco sticks are made to facilitate the heating rather than burning of tobacco. We also discuss the introduction of oral nicotine products to our range of smoke-free products, and the available science on this category of products.
PMIScience.com is operated by Philip Morris International for the purpose of publishing and disseminating scientific information about Philip Morris International’s efforts to develop and assess products that have the potential to reduce individual risk and population harm associated with tobacco use. This site is for use by scientists, the public health and regulatory communities, and other stakeholders with an interest in tobacco policy. The purpose of this site is not for advertising or marketing. It is not intended for use by consumers.
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.