The world's heated tobacco (HTP) has been restarted in the world recently in the United States, as the industry is promoted as a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes.
But is it actually more intelligent smoke – or just the risk of reincarnation?
Dr. Jimmy Hartmann Boyce, an assistant professor in promoting health and politics at UMASS AmHERST, and her colleagues dismantled dozens of studies to see if science behind hot tobacco is really escalating.
The results of the conversation collapsed. Here's everything you need to know.
But first: What is HTPS?
Unlike traditional smoke, these high -tech devices heat the real tobacco leaves instead of burning them, resulting in vapor filled with nicotine for users to inhale.
It may look like electronic cigarettes, but there is a major difference: vapes heats nicotine liquid, not tobacco. Unlike your standard cigarette, HTPS does not burn the paper – it just heats it.
“These differences are important because they burn tobacco leaves-and not nicotine-which directly causes the disease and death associated with smoking,” explained Hartmann Boyce.
Another Big Tobacco Stadium
HTPS is a safer smoking alternative to cigarette-and-backed research in this field to support their claims.
Several studies that have received funding from tobacco companies have found that HTPS steam contains much lower levels of harmful toxins such as heavy metals, aldehydes, and multi -episoded aromatic hydrocarbons compared to cigarette smoke.
Even there is some evidence that for some users – such as those who suffer from chronic lung disease – can be a transition from cigarettes to hot tobacco some benefits, according to BBC.
But when Jimmy Hartmann Boyce and her team reviewed 40 clinical trials on these devices, the results were not clear. In fact, they considered evidence of health benefits or HTPS risks as “decisive”.
Smoke blowing on HTPS
Researchers dug in molecular changes in the body – known as biomedically indicators – to understand the potential effect of HTPS. The forty studies they reviewed have revealed changes in 143 vital marks, including those related to heart disease and cancer.
But the results were not completely clear. “Most hot tobacco products studies are small and relatively short-it does not give us a clear picture of its effects,” pointed out Hartmann Boyce.
The Kicker: 29 huge experiences of 40 experiments have been funded by the tobacco industry, which has a special interest in proving that HTPS is safer than regular cigarettes.
“While the results we have reached do not rule out the possibility that HTPS is” selected risks “, she provides little support for such claims,” Dr. Sophie Brazinne, the author of the study, a researcher at Bath University, said in a statement.
Not only Braznell and Hartmann-Boyce are the ones who give HTPS the side eye.
Efthimios Zervas, a chemical engineer at the National Technical University in Athens, has spent over a decade in the analysis of chemicals in HTP fumes. Like cigarettes, it was found that HTPS launches dangerous accurate particles that could depth in your body, for each BBC.
While many toxins were present in less concentrations of cigarette smoke, Zerefas discovered some harmful chemicals – such as carbonil methayl Gilloxal – which already appears in higher concentrations in HTP vapor.
Other studies have found that HTPS can lead to similar problems in the heart and blood vessels such as traditional cigarettes, including raising the heart rate, blood pressure and causing atherosclerosis. Some research also indicates that it may lead to a blockage of the airway and other lung problems.
Want to resign? Not so quickly
The HTPS is often enhanced as a tool to help people stop smoking, but the center of diseases control says there is no scientific support for this claim.
The researchers in Japan, where HTPS looked very popular, in this case and found that the devices did not help smokers to leave or prevent former smokers from relapse.
In the United States, a survey of adult youth revealed that many HTPS along with other tobacco products, which increases the risk of relying on nicotine and harmful side effects.
Compare this with VAPES, which indicates some studies can help people leave traditional cigarette smoking.
“There is a large group of evidence on safe and effective ways to move away from smoking, which makes the relative shortage of strong scientific evidence on particularly amazing hot tobacco products,” said Hartmann Boyce.
The road forward
Hartmann-Boyce and Braznell calls for longer studies and on the quality of the tobacco industry-to assess the true health effects of HTPS.
This batch comes as HTPS continues to use in the United States. To date, the FDA (FDA) has granted a license to only one of this: IQOS, which was re -launched in Austin, Texas, in March after being withdrawn from the American market in 2021 due to patent dispute.
IQOS is owned by Philip Morris International, one of the largest tobacco companies in the world, which has poured billions of dollars to develop HTPS and research on its effects.
Philip Morris did not immediately respond to the publication of the post for comment.
Hartmann-Boyce emphasizes that the long-term health effects of HTPS are still unknown, and are still unclear whether it can effectively reduce the risk of disease or death to those who turn from traditional cigarettes.
But it is certain of one thing: “Quitting smoking is the best thing a person who smokes for his health can do,” said Hartmann Boyce.
