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Last year, PMI estimated that its heated tobacco line has approximately 20 million users

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No safe level of smoking exists for cardiovascular disease

Some within the tobacco control community are cautiously optimistic about HTPs on the basis of the Japanese experience, where their growing popularity has been accompanied by accelerated declines in smoking prevalence 16,17

In these legal challenges the industry claims, among other things, that packs will increase illicit trade because they can be easily replicated (there is no evidence to support this claim), and that not allowing a company to show its brand on packs is an infringement on its trademark