On September 15th, 2020, Tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris International (PMI) held a scientific online conference on the fundamental difference between cigarette smoke and heated tobacco product aerosol. Scientists of PMI presented some of the latest fundamental scientific evidence on the harm caused by combustion and innovative, less harmful, aerosols chemistry. Recently, the American Food and Drugs Administration has allowed the marketing of PMI’s tobacco heated system (IQOS) as a modified risk tobacco product. For Dr. Gizelle Baker, Director of Global Scientific engagement who moderated this scientific corporate meeting, this decision put IQOS as a fundamentally different product than c... [Read more]