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Philip Morris hides data in plain sight on dangers of new heat-not-burn product

  • Written by Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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For as long as smoking has been known to cause cancer and other diseases, Big Tobacco has worked to avoid the truth about its deadly and highly addictive products.

Nicotine is the addictive drug in tobacco. Burning the tobacco generates an aerosol of ultrafine particles that carries nicotine...

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