To secure the tobacco industry’s medium to long-term future, in light of growing tobacco regulations and a rapidly shrinking cigarette market, particularly in Western Europe, the US and other high-income countries, tobacco companies have been developing and marketing so-called ‘Next Generation Products’ (NGPs), which include snus, e-cigarettes, and Heated Tobacco Products (HTPs).12 They are also increasingly marketing these products in low and middle income countries.To get more news about HNB, you can visit hitaste.net official website.

This overview page focuses on HTPs. It explains what these products are, summarises tobacco company investments in this product segment, and discusses the main public health debates around these products. It does not include all research updates on the potential health benefits/risks of HTPs but does refer to some key and emerging independent analyses. It primarily looks at how the tobacco industry uses its own scientific studies, and the concept of harm reduction, to further its business goals. We discuss whether HTPs, e-cigarettes and other kinds of ‘smokeless’ tobacco can help advance public health on our page on Next Generation Products (NGPs).

Unlike e-cigarettes, HTPs contain tobacco.4 The World Health Organization (WHO) describes the tobacco in these products as being "heated without reaching ignition to produce an emission containing nicotine and other chemicals”.5 According to tobacco companies, by heating the tobacco, rather than burning like conventional cigarettes, the formation of harmful substances created at high temperature associated with combustion is significantly reduced.6 This tobacco industry reduced-risk claim has yet to be fully supported by independent scientific evidence, as discussed below. IQOS, produced by Philip Morris International (PMI) is the most widely available HTP, with by far the biggest share of the heated tobacco market, but the other big three transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) all now have HTPs, Imperial Tobacco being the last to launch a product in 2019 (see below). South Korean tobacco company KT&G also has a growing share of the HTP market and, in 2020, a new partnership with PMI to commercialise KT&G’s range of Lil HTPs and e-cigarettes.78 China National Tobacco also has an HTP called Mok.910 This page focuses on the four main transnational tobacco companies and their interests in HTPs.

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