There’s another alternative to vaporizers that some smokers and vapers alike might not yet be aware of and they’re quickly heating up in popularity. These new devices are known as heat-not-burn (HNB) products and according to new research conducted by the independent Committee On Toxicity of Chemicals in Foods, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT), they’re likely safer than conventional cigarettes.
While they might be safer, the COT is quick to indicate that the evidence also suggests that they do still pose a risk to users. Although, the extent of that possible risk remains unclear at this time, as is the case with the vaporizers that they compete with.
The two HNB products–electronic devices which heat tobacco or nicotine-infused liquid to the point at which it vaporizes, creating an inhalable vapor–examined by the COT during the course of their research were the iFuse by British American Tobacco (BAT) and IQOS by Philip Morris International.
While the data is limited and did not allow the COT to quantify the exact risk that such products impose on users in comparison to conventional cigarettes, professor Alan Boobis, the chairman of COT, indicated that the evidence produced by their research does suggest “that heat-not-burn products still pose a risk to users.” However, he added that it is likely that there is “to be a reduction in risk for cigarette smokers who switch to heat-not-burn products but quitting entirely would be more beneficial.”
“The evidence suggests that heat-not-burn products still pose a risk to users. There is likely to be a reduction in risk for cigarette smokers who switch to heat-not-burn products but quitting entirely would be more beneficial.”
In other words, by the COT’s account, HNB products are less harmful than smoking, but quitting entirely is ideal from health a perspective.
In addition, they found that the risk of second-hand vapor produced by HNB products to be less than the risk associated with second-hand smoke produced by conventional cigarettes.
The COT’s findings are not intended to pertain to electronic cigarettes as e-cigs were not among the devices examined during the course of their research into HNB products.
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