Potentially fatal ingestion of heat‐not‐burn cigarettes successfully treated by gastric lavage

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The product science of electrically heated tobacco products: a narrative review of the scientific literature

“…To date, five medical case reports have been published in the scientific literature pertaining to heated tobacco products (Kamada et al, 2016;Aokage et al, 2019;Hitosugi et al, 2019;Tajiri et al, 2020;Yumoto et al, 2020). All of the medical case reports originated in Japan; three involved the development of acute eosinophilic pneumonia in users of heated tobacco products after normal use of their products (Kamada et al, 2016;Aokage et al, 2019;Tajiri et al, 2020) whilst two involved the intentional misuse of heated tobacco products or their constituents (Hitosugi et al, 2019;Yumoto et al, 2020).…”

“…To date, five medical case reports have been published in the scientific literature pertaining to heated tobacco products (Kamada et al, 2016;Aokage et al, 2019;Hitosugi et al, 2019;Tajiri et al, 2020;Yumoto et al, 2020). All of the medical case reports originated in Japan; three involved the development of acute eosinophilic pneumonia in users of heated tobacco products after normal use of their products (Kamada et al, 2016;Aokage et al, 2019;Tajiri et al, 2020) whilst two involved the intentional misuse of heated tobacco products or their constituents (Hitosugi et al, 2019;Yumoto et al, 2020). Of these two medical case reports, one detailed a case of attempted homicide in a user after tampering of his heated tobacco product with elemental mercury by a third party (Hitosugi et al, 2019), whilst the second involved the intentional ingestion of sticks associated with a heated tobacco product (Yumoto et al, 2020).…”

“…All of the medical case reports originated in Japan; three involved the development of acute eosinophilic pneumonia in users of heated tobacco products after normal use of their products (Kamada et al, 2016;Aokage et al, 2019;Tajiri et al, 2020) whilst two involved the intentional misuse of heated tobacco products or their constituents (Hitosugi et al, 2019;Yumoto et al, 2020). Of these two medical case reports, one detailed a case of attempted homicide in a user after tampering of his heated tobacco product with elemental mercury by a third party (Hitosugi et al, 2019), whilst the second involved the intentional ingestion of sticks associated with a heated tobacco product (Yumoto et al, 2020). Of the five medical case reports, two provided details as to the heated tobacco product involved (Hitosugi et al, 2019;Yumoto et al, 2020), two provided no details (Aokage et al, 2019;Tajiri et al, 2020) whilst for the final medical case report, the heated tobacco product involved could be deduced from one of the pictures provided in the original article (Kamada et al, 2016).…”

“…Of these two medical case reports, one detailed a case of attempted homicide in a user after tampering of his heated tobacco product with elemental mercury by a third party (Hitosugi et al, 2019), whilst the second involved the intentional ingestion of sticks associated with a heated tobacco product (Yumoto et al, 2020). Of the five medical case reports, two provided details as to the heated tobacco product involved (Hitosugi et al, 2019;Yumoto et al, 2020), two provided no details (Aokage et al, 2019;Tajiri et al, 2020) whilst for the final medical case report, the heated tobacco product involved could be deduced from one of the pictures provided in the original article (Kamada et al, 2016). An overview of the five medical case reports is provided in Table 5.…”