(Reuters photo)Back in 1992, Singapore feared that its gleaming new subway would be wrecked by people using something sticky to disable automatic train doors -- so it banned chewing gum. Starting this month, Philip Morris International Inc's iQoS, British American Tobacco Plc's glo, Japan Tobacco Inc's Ploom Tech capsule packs and other heat-not-burn tobacco devices were banished from the island. Even to be found in possession of "emerging and imitation" nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, now attracts a S$2,000 (47,000 baht) fine. The unavailability of long-term usage data means that heat sticks may not get a modified-risk tobacco product certification. All this means that the premarket tobacco product application -- under which iQoS can't make claims of reducing the health risks -- has a higher degree of success.

Source: Bangkok Post February 22, 2018 21:33 UTC