Wtf is heated tobacco
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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I was wondering the same. What a weird turn of phrase.
The article reads like it was written by an alien that doesn't know of the word "vape".
There's a difference between a vape and the type of contraption they're talking about. The ones where you stick a cigarette in the end and suck it and it doesn't burn, but rather just heats the tobacco.
I had never heard of this thing before. Turns out I'm the alien.
But you're right, as aliens often are. These things are like dry herb vapes, that people use for vaping herbs, like parsley, sage, rosemary and cannabis. The idea of these things is to vapourise the chemicals in the dry plant matter, rather than burn it.
They presumably don't contain the carbon monoxide you get from burning tobacco, and the amount of tar could be lower.
They are certainly worse than ecigarette vapes, which heat a PG/VG ejuice that has had nicotine added in trace amounts, as this ejuice does not contain anything like the amount of shite found in tobacco (formaldehyde and all that crap).
I don't see the point in having these. If people need a good substitute to replace cigarettes, they should use ecigs. Not these half-way-house things which still expose them to lots of the same dangerous chemicals. But I guess this heated tobacco helps keep the tobacco producers in the market?
A partially lit cigarette
the supermarkets were displaying posters and video screens showing devices which create a nicotine-containing vapour by heating tobacco with an electric current.
I think they mean vapes. And specifically devices rather than nicotine itself.
They're talking about these, hence not just referring to vapes. They do make the distinction in the article.