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What is IQOS?
Real tobacco, real progress
Key reasons to switch
Discover science
Small steps, bigger change
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The innovative bladeless SMARTCORE INDUCTION SYSTEM™ heats the tobacco from within the TEREA™ stick. It unlocks the taste of your chosen tobacco blend, but without any smoke or ash, less smell than cigarettes and no need to clean the device after use.
IQOS ORIGINALS DUO devices mainly differ with their colors and style. The devices also come with a special dual cleaner due to which you can clean your device much more thoroughly.
IQOS is the only tobacco heating system authorized by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) as part of the Modified Risk Tobacco Product process, concluding that switching completely to IQOS reduces your body’s exposure to harmful chemicals.*
* FDA’s marketing order for the IQOS system dated July 7, 2020.
IQOS 3 and IQOS 3 MULTI are now sold in cities in 43 markets around the world. IQOS parent company, Philip Morris International, spends 92% of all R&D and 60% of all commercial expenditure on smoke-free products.
IQOS next generation device, the pioneering 2.4 PLUS, is launched in 21 markets. A year later, it is available to adult smoker customers in 38 markets. In 2017 it wins a GOOD DESIGN® Award from the annual presentations made by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press.
PMI’s first commercial heat-not-burn device is launched in Japan and Italy. A year later the product is named IQOS and is made available in Switzerland, Russia and Ukraine.
PMI expands its R&D facilities focusing on alternatives to cigarettes by opening a new research laboratory in Singapore. Today, over 400 R&D experts are working on IQOS technologies around the world.
Forward strides into smoke-free alternatives to cigarettes, soon to become IQOS, levels up in 2008 with a new dedicated R&D centre in Switzerland.
While PMI’s research into heated tobacco alternatives goes back to the early 1990s, 2007 marks a turning point when a heat-not-burn prototype using HeatControl™ technology is developed. The device is a technological step forward but is ergonomically awkward.