Methods and products to facilitate smokers switching to a tobacco heating product or e-cigarettes

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to tobacco products, including methodology, devices and compositions, for assisting a smoker to transition from conventional tobacco cigarettes to either e-cigarettes or a tobacco heating device. Provided herein are methodology for switching, along with kits, products and apparatuses. The disclosure also provides methodology for regulating tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase expression, for use in producing cigarettes, reconstituted cannabis, and other products having reduced Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinolic acid.

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BACKGROUND1. Field[0001]The present disclosure relates to tobacco products, including related methodology, devices and compositions.2. Description of the Related Art[0002]Due to the fact that the tobacco is burned, cigarettes are the most hazardous tobacco product on the health-risk continuum of tobacco and nicotine products, and medicinal nicotine such as the nicotine patch is the least hazardous. Tobacco smoke is a complex mixture of more than 5,000 smoke constituents which are bound to particles or are free in the gas phase. The temperature of the burning cone at the tip of a cigarette while a smoker puffs can reach more than 800° C. The vast majority of the more than one billion worldwide tobacco users smoke combustible cigarettes.[0003]There are essentially two public policy strategies to reduce the harm caused by smoking. The first strategy is implementation of policies that encourage smoking cessation. Although cessation yields the greatest health benefits, quitting smoking i...

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Benefits of technology

The patent text describes a type of re-made cannabis that has reduced amounts of a specific chemical called Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinolic acid. This is achieved by reducing the expression of a specific gene called tetrahydrocannabinolic acid synthase in cannabis plants. The text also mentions a low-cigarette version of this re-made cannabis, which has even lower levels of the chemical. The technical effect is that this invention provides a way to produce a safer and more controlled form of cannabis with reduced amounts of a potentially harmful chemical.

Problems solved by technology

Although cessation yields the greatest health benefits, quitting smoking is difficult and a large percentage of smokers has no desire to quit.

Switching smokers to snus has not been as successful in other countries.

Unless used as an adjunct to cigarettes, it is difficult for smokers to exclusively switch to a smokeless tobacco product that is not inhaled such as snus.

Even though the tobacco industry has invested enormous resources in marketing e-cigarettes, and some in the tobacco control community have publicly supported e-cigarettes, the adoption rate of e-cigarettes by smokers of conventional cigarettes has been disappointing and is much lower than originally anticipated by tobacco industry analysts.

This low adoption rate is mainly due to the fact that e-cigarettes are less satisfying to smokers as compared to conventional cigarettes.

Thus, e-cigarettes are generally less satisfying to habitual conventional cigarette smokers than they are to non-smokers.

The virtual instantaneous effects of inhaling tobacco smoke, including the combination of nicotine and MAO inhibitors, make it difficult for smokers to exclusively switch to e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco products or medicinal nicotine products.

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