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Jul 27, 2020, 5 tweets

All forms of tobacco use are harmful, including heated tobacco products!

The tobacco industry is aggressively marketing heated tobacco products & e-cigarettes, including to young people, risking a generation hooked to nicotine.

bit.ly/303Ttux #TobaccoExposed #NoTobacco

Heated tobacco products are tobacco, which contain cancer-causing substances even in its natural form.

People who use heated tobacco products are exposed to toxic emissions from the products, & also expose bystanders to these toxic 2nd-hand emissions. bit.ly/3jJXkER

Some toxins are present at higher levels in heated tobacco products than in conventional 🚬 smoke and the effects of exposure to these are unknown. bit.ly/3jJXkER

#TobaccoExposed #NoTobacco

Heated tobacco products should be regulated just like other tobacco products, in line with the @FCTCofficial. This includes smoke-free laws in public places and taxing these tobacco products like all others. bit.ly/3jJXkER

#TobaccoExposed #NoTobacco

WHO recommends quitting all forms of tobacco by getting advice from health professionals, using toll-free quitlines & nicotine replacement therapies.

Meet Florence, WHO's first virtual health worker, helping the world's 1.3 billion tobacco users quit: bit.ly/3f6cKjh

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