The content of the IQOS HEETS Amber Label filling was called pure tobacco by the manufacturer. However, when you prepare a filling, you will find that it looks very unconventional.
The shortened IQOS HEETS Amber Label cigarette cartridge contains a mixture of finely chopped tobacco enriched with glycerine, which turns into steam and becomes a nicotine carrier when heated.
What does the IQOS HEETS Amber Label filling contain. Outer paper lined with weak aluminum foil. Tobacco filling with glycerine, pressed into slices with 0.5 mg nicotine
Cellulose mouthpiece made from hollow acetate. Heat-absorbing biopolymer film filter
The biopolymer in the filter absorbs heat and changes its structure. If you apply IQOS harder it will initially deform and resemble a burn. After cooling, it hardens and can no longer be used.
At 6.1 g, the tobacco content is significantly lower than a few grams of conventional cigarettes. In the first independent Swiss study, an attempt was made to summarize the pollutants.
IQOS HEETS Amber Online cigarette cartridges are currently not subject to any excise tax on tobacco products that are consumed in accordance with the Excise Tax Act. The Treasury Department has drafted an amendment that will tax tobacco products for heating from 2019, but fortunately it is only at a lower rate than the tobacco product.
But even such a change does not seem to have any effect on IQOS HEETS Amber Label prices, since otherwise they would no longer be competitive with classic cigarettes.
Many customers ask about the composition of IQOS HEETS Amber Label cigarette cartridges. On various websites, especially those of electronic cigarette providers with whom IQOS competes.
So we asked the manufacturer directly via email and published their full answer, which pretty much copies our original article from foreign sources.
They say the tobacco filling was developed directly for IQOS and made from a selected blend of real tobacco. IQOS copies many sensory and ritual aspects of smoking, but uses heating, not combustion. It should not be used at the same time as smoking cigarettes. Average usage time is about the same as smoking a cigarette, but tobacco refills are not cigarettes and do not ignite with matches or a lighter.