ArticleTobacco control2018
Invisible smoke: third-party endorsement and the resurrection of heat-not-burn tobacco products.
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- Characterizing Heated Tobacco Product Use Among Adult Cigarette Smokers and Nicotine Vaping Product Users in the 2018 ITC Four Country Smoking & Vaping Survey.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2022Article
- Electronic Cigarette Use and the Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Review
- Tobacco industry messaging around harm: Narrative framing in PMI and BAT press releases and annual reports 2011 to 2021.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Association between Intention to Quit Cigarette Smoking and Use of Heated Tobacco Products: Application of Smoking Intensity Perspective on Heated Tobacco Product Users.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Electronic cigarette.European heart journal supplements : journal of the European Society of Cardiology · 2020Article
- The E-Cigarette Debate: What Counts as Evidence?American journal of public health · 2019Article
- Free-Base Nicotine Is Nearly Absent in Aerosol from IQOS Heat-Not-Burn Devices, As Determined byChemical research in toxicology · 2019Article
- Heated tobacco products: another tobacco industry global strategy to slow progress in tobacco control.Tobacco control · 2018Article
- Revolution or redux? Assessing IQOS through a precursor product.Tobacco control · 2018Article
- Heated tobacco products: the example of IQOS.Tobacco control · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundTobacco companies are introducing new 'heat-not-burn' cigarettes in dozens of countries. Historically, these products failed commercially, and independent researchers contested their health claims. The most prominent early heat-not-burn cigarette was RJ Reynolds's (RJR's) Premier, introduced in the USA in 1988. Curiously,
methodsTo ascertain what RJR knew about this endorsement, we systematically searched and analysed previously secret RJR documents in public archives and triangulated the industry document data with other published work.
resultsRJR had a long-standing interest in collaborating with outside scientists to endorse potentially reduced harm cigarettes. The author of
conclusionsEndorsement by high-impact medical journals and health authorities may be critical in helping heat-not-burn' products succeed where previous attempts have failed. Conflicts of interest influenced these endorsements in the past. Health leaders and academic journals should consider both conflicts of interest and the ethics of endorsing tobacco product substitution, as tobacco companies simultaneously work to promote cigarette smoking and undermine tobacco control globally.
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