Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco Cigarettes: Smoke by Any Other Name

Reto Auer; Nicolas Concha-Lozano; Isabelle Jacot-Sadowski; Jacques Cornuz; Aurélie Berthet

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.1419

Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco Cigarettes: Smoke by Any Other Name

JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Jul 1;177(7):1050-1052. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.1419.

Authors

Reto Auer¹, Nicolas Concha-Lozano², Isabelle Jacot-Sadowski³, Jacques Cornuz³, Aurélie Berthet²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland2Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
² Institute for Work and Health, University of Lausanne and Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Abstract

This study analyzed the content of smoke from heat-not-burn tobacco cigarettes compared with that of conventional cigarettes to determine whether similar toxic compounds are released in heat-not-burn cigarette smoke.

MeSH terms

Carbon Monoxide / analysis
Chromatography, Gas / methods
Cigarette Smoking / adverse effects
Humans
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / analysis
Smoke* / adverse effects
Smoke* / analysis
Smoking Devices
Smoking Reduction / methods*
Tobacco Products* / adverse effects
Tobacco Products* / analysis
Tobacco Use Cessation Devices* / adverse effects
Tobacco Use Cessation Devices* / classification
Volatile Organic Compounds / analysis

Substances

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Smoke
Volatile Organic Compounds
Carbon Monoxide