Scientific Updates

      Scientific Update December 2022 Issue 17R

      PMI

      Published on
      Dec 15, 2022
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      Summary

      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.

      This issue was revised in August 2023.

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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. All of our RRPs are smoke-free products that deliver nicotine with far lower quantities of harmful and potentially harmful constituents than found in cigarette smoke.