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IQOS: What you need to know
Sales of a new heat-not-burn alternative to cigarettes are now allowed in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration will permit the product IQOS (pronounced EYE-kose) to be sold as a “modified risk” tobacco product to people over the age of 18.To get more news about Hitaste Hi10, you can visit hitaste.net official website.
The FDA has launched a crackdown on the use of e-cigarettes among young people and says marketing of this new product will be heavily restricted to adult smokers only.
This is because so many kids started using e-cigarettes like JUUL.
The FDA says IQOS sales to adults will be allowed because “the products produce fewer or lower levels of some toxins than combustible cigarettes.” However, the FDA is very specific that they do not endorse the product as “safe” or "FDA approved."
According to the FDA statement: "All tobacco products are potentially harmful and addictive and those who do not use tobacco products should continue not to do so."We talked to Maher Karam-Hage, M.D., professor of Behavioral Science and medical director of the Tobacco Treatment Program at MD Anderson, about this new product. He says IQOS may be just as harmful as regular cigarettes and so-called ‘light’ cigarettes. Here's what he had to say.
What is IQOS?
IQOS is a tobacco heating system that uses tobacco that is wrapped in a special paper to deliver nicotine to users.
These so-called "heatsticks" are heated up inside the IQOS and nicotine is released with other tobacco components and flavors for users to inhale.
This is different from regular cigarettes, which burn tobacco. The key thing, though, is that the aerosol released by the heated tobacco in IQOS contains cancer-causing chemicals. |