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

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

Reto Auer  1 , Nicolas Concha-Lozano  2 , Isabelle Jacot-Sadowski  3 , Jacques Cornuz  3 , Aurélie Berthet  2
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Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco Cigarettes: Smoke by Any Other Name

Reto Auer et al. JAMA Intern Med. .

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.

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Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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