Today, Tobacco Nation is comprised of the same 12 states we identified in 2017 Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia with smoking prevalence within the top quarter of adult smoking prevalence in the country
While a traditional cigarette burns at extreme temperatures of up to 900C, creating toxic smoke, ash, and tar, HNB devices maintain a strictly controlled environment (typically between 250C and 350C)
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