SMOKE-FREE PRODUCTS: THEIR RELEVANCE IN PRESERVING THE ECOSYSTEM.

In Africa, we have had medieval means through which smoke and fog filled our atmosphere. A typical Australopethicus Africanus or any neanderthal antecedents who ever lived in Africa knew the importance of using Flints to make their own fires. It reminds of the Nastufians.
The evolution of smoke and the advancement of man still gave rise to atmospheric pollution. One of such means is tobacco smoking. In recent times, a medical report has it that Nigerians consume about 40 billion cigarettes while at another time she ranked 4th globally and 1st in the continent for tobacco cases.
In a time like this when scientists and environmental activists like Greta Thumberg are making efforts to champion the cause of ecological preservation, Phillip Morris International , makers of IQoS- I Quit Original Smoking- electronic tobacco have come up with a gesture driven towards a "SMOKE-FREE FUTURE". IQOS technology is meant to be dispense vapour instead of harmful smoke , an innovation that Mr. Bahman Safakish ( PMI MD, sub-saharan Africa) confirms will succeed in making 40million smokers (a sheer 30% of the WHO estimated '1billion smokers ' globally by 2025) choose to quit or resort to less toxic products thus reducing the incident of contracting present communicable and Emerging Infectious diseases that are airborne. According to Bashman Safakish: " Providing these smokers with science-based less harmful alternatives is therefore a common sense so to improve public health".
IQOS tobacco heating becomes the very first to be granted MRTP (Modified-Risk Tobacco Product) marketing orders by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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(Image source: From THE NATION, dated 1st August 2021.