Promoting tobacco harm reduction

The Manila Times

Promoting tobacco harm reduction  Philip Morris International Chief Executive Officer Jacek Olczak talks about the need for regulators and stakeholders to join hands in promoting harm reduction to help people who cannot stop smoking  have access to safer alternatives and save lives at the Technovation event held in Dubai on October 8, 2025.   VIDEO BY LEENA CHUA  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #themanilatimes #tmtnews

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00:00asked when the only form of a consumption of a tobacco which naturally contains nicotine was

00:06the cigarette in most of the places uh we didn't have to be so precise in our language

00:14uh what is the problem of cigarettes so you know we said cigarette kills smoke kills

00:20like a nicotine which is the substance in the tobacco kills everyone had the same

00:25you know thing in their mind that smoking is not a good idea okay but now i mean we know

00:34and with the very high confidence level precision etc which of the elements of this product actually

00:42contributing on the negative side to the healthy effects and which do not and nicotine stays on

00:48that side but everything else is on the negative side this was the concept behind development

00:55in this product heat not burning rape nicotine pouches etc how to deliver something which

01:03actually makes people using the product which is nicotine and we can talk about the nicotine

01:08in terms of addictions separately while removing all the other components

01:14which while consuming nicotine you're actually uh creating a negative health effect and that's the

01:21harm reduction now coming to nicotine i mean you're here and this is very often and that's the

01:28opinion which is based on the facts that the nicotine is addictive and it's true nicotine has a highly

01:33addictive potential which essentially means that over a period of time people will tend to come back

01:40and use uh more frequently or more often the product but that is the question is that okay so nicotine is

01:48addicted if you want to if you want to resolve the problem of addiction you need to understand what

01:56make people in the first time to come back to the product they must have realized some positive effects

02:05on the way they feel which makes them repeating the usage of the product and this is when any product

02:12where addiction is developed so you cannot resolve the problem of addiction without trying to understand

02:18what is the benefit of the substance which was delivered to the human

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