Note that it doesn't deny that it's _any safer_. It says it's still not safe
These are not the same thing
It's likely safer but not meaningfully enough to make much difference, as it's still obviously very bad for you
These are not the same thing
It's likely safer but not meaningfully enough to make much difference, as it's still obviously very bad for you
There's no evidence that it's safer at all. Reynolds lost a big lawsuit over its American Spirit brand implying that their cigarettes are safer. If they could have provided evidence to the contrary, they would have.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2000/04/...
The thousands of "chemicals" from cigarettes are not put in there. They come from combustion. Setting shit on fire makes chemicals turn into other chemicals, some of them very harmful. That's why many survivors of 9/11 later died from lung cancer.