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And, more important to the times we live in: Why are governments the world over working overtime to address the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed 3.79 million people in the past 18 months, but are tolerating and seemingly neglecting the tobacco pandemic that kills 8.2 million people every year

Moreover, former smokers were higher hypertensive than never smokers and the risk of hypertension increased with the number and duration of cigarettes smoked 20

launch of PMIs IQOS device, a heat-not-burn tobacco product that replicates the smoking experience but with far less health risk

It is likely to get worse with additional restrictions

It is symbolic that we are opening our first IQOS store in central London, just around the corner from where Mr Philip Morris opened his first tobacco shop in 1847. Our goal is to convert existing adult legal age smokers to these products and we have every intention of using todays highly efficient distribution and retail networks once a meaningful consumer demand exists. PMI has already launched IQOS in more than ten countries including Japan, Italy and Switzerland and plans to expand to cities in 20 countries by the end of 2016 and up to 35 in 2017

While a consensus has emerged among public health authorities that e-cigarettes and other cigarette alternatives are less harmful than conventional smoking for individual smokers, their long-term health consequences are still unknown, as is their impact on the population at large