TRIBUNNEWS.COM – Alternative tobacco products, such as heated tobacco products and cigarette electricity, does not produce TAR because in the use of the product, there is no combustion process.
Therefore, it is very wrong to assume that equates alternative tobacco products with cigarette, especially the risk profile that the product has.
Founder as well as Chairman Public Health Observer Foundation (YPKP), Achmad Syawqie, explained that TAR, which contains thousands of dangerous chemical compounds and can trigger various diseases, is produced because of the combustion process such as in cigarette.
The burning of tobacco in cigarettes occurs at a temperature of 800 degrees Celsius.
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Apart from the cigarette, TAR is also produced from incomplete combustion processes such as wood, gasoline, kerosene, to burning food.
“The process of burning tobacco products is in addition to releasing nicotine, also produces more than 7,000 chemical compounds, 2,000 of which are present in TAR. In TAR, 100 of these compounds have been identified by health experts as the main cause of smoking-related diseases such as lung cancer, cardiovascular disease and emphysema, ”explained Syawqie when contacted by reporters.
Syawqie continued alternative tobacco products, like heated tobacco products, do not produce TAR as in cigarette because it implements a heating system in its use.
Tobacco sticks are heated to a maximum temperature of 350 degrees Celsius so that they only produce steam.
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Since the use result is steam, the resulting risk is much lower than cigarette.
“Consumers who use alternative tobacco products just inhale vapor and nicotine, there is no TAR, thus minimizing the body’s exposure to harmful chemical compounds. But keep in mind, although it is lower risk, however alternative tobacco products not completely risk free, “said Syawqie.
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