ABSENCE OF COMBUSTION IN AN ELECTRICALLY HEATED TOBACCO
What is the combustion point of tobacco?
We need heat – not combustion – to release nicotine
That's far below the temperature at which tobacco begins to burn, around 400°C.
What are the problems with heated tobacco?
Heated tobacco products produce emissions that are not as safe as clean air.
Studies of secondhand emissions from heated tobacco products suggest that the products expose both users and bystanders to some of the same chemicals found in cigarette smoke, although at lower levels than cigarette smoke.
What is a tobacco product that does not require burning?
An e-cigarette is a battery-operated device that allows the user to breathe in nicotine through a vapour.
- HTPs are hybrids between electronic and conventional cigarettes: they are equipped with a device that heats the product without reaching combustion to generate aerosol, while using "real" tobacco instead of nicotine-containing liquids.
As the EHTP is heated to temperatures below the ignition temperature of the EHTP tobacco material, the tobacco material undergoes processes such as drying and vaporization, and close to the Heater also thermal decomposition (torrefaction and low-temperature pyrolysis), but no combustion (neither incomplete nor complete