HEATED TOBACCO SMOKE AND SMELL

Heated tobacco smoke and smell

If you’re looking for cigarettes that do not give off smoke, there is an answer. Those who enjoy consuming tobacco and nicotine may wish to consider heated tobacco as an alternative. Wondering what heated tobacco is? Allow us to explain.

When you light a cigarette, you start a combustion process. Tobacco burns at extremely high temperatures, allowing the smoker to inhale tobacco and nicotine in the process. This burning is what produces the thick cigarette smoke we’re all familiar with and the distinctive smell that comes along with it. But did you know that you don’t need to burn tobacco to consume it in this way?

Tobacco heater devices like glo™ take a different approach – one we refer to as our heat-not-burn technology. First and foremost, they’re super simple to use. You simply insert your tobacco-containing neo™ stick, hold the button to activate, then you’re good to go.

Once activated, these devices heat the tobacco to exactly 270°C in less than 20 seconds. This is enough to produce tobacco and nicotine-containing aerosol for the user to inhale, but without giving off the smoke and ash that come with burning*. As for the heat-not-burn tobacco smell, you’ll find it to be nowhere near as strong or overpowering when compared with conventional cigarettes. That’s because most of the smell from smoking comes from the tobacco charring, but there’s minimal charring that takes place when the tobacco is held at a maximum 270°C.

And that’s not all. glo™ devices produce fewer and lower levels of toxicants than are given off by the smoking of conventional cigarettes. 90-95% less toxicants, in fact**.

Altogether, these benefits are great news for you and everyone standing around you when you swap your cigarettes for a tobacco heater.

Where can you smoke heated tobacco?

It’s only natural to wonder where is smoking allowed when it comes to heated tobacco. After all, heated tobacco products don’t give off smoke like conventional cigarettes do.

But while there’s no smoke, no ash and very little smell, your tobacco heater still fundamentally involves consuming tobacco through inhalation. That means you’ll need to think about your tobacco heater as if it were a cigarette. In other words, keep your usage to anywhere you’d be comfortable and legal to use tobacco heaters. Nevertheless, the benefits of heating tobacco vs burning it in cigarettes should mean it’s a more comfortable and sociable experience for you and anyone in your vicinity.

Allowing you to enjoy tobacco on the go and heated in less than 20 seconds, many smokers find switching to heated tobacco products to be super convenient. And with no smoke and ash to worry about, you can be confident that you are not bothering others when you do so. If you’d like to make the change, take a look at our glo™ heated tobacco devices and neo™ stick tobacco products. To learn more about what’s involved in the upkeep of your device, read our guide to glo™ maintenance.

* Heats tobacco, without burning. This product is not risk-free and contains nicotine, an addictive substance.

** This product is not risk-free and contains nicotine, an addictive substance. Comparison of smoke from a scientific standard reference cigarette (approximately 9 mg tar) and emissions from glo™, in terms of the average of the 9 harmful components the World Health Organisation recommends to reduce in cigarette smoke.