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TEREA SMARTCORE STICKSTM are specially designed heated tobacco sticks (units) intended for exclusive use with the IQOS ILUMA induction heated tobacco device.

Within the TEREA SMARTCORE STICKSTM is a metal heating element, which is coated with stainless steel, that heats the tobacco from within.

TEREA SMARTCORE STICKSTM are made of elements, including a tobacco plug, filter, cooling plug, and protective wrap.

TEREA SMARTCORE STICKSTM cannot be used with the IQOS ORIGINALS series of heated tobacco products (e.g., IQOS ORIGINALS 1, IQOS 2.4, IQOS 2.4+, IQOS 3, IQOS 3 Duo, and IQOS 3 Multi), or our other heated tobacco products, BONDS by IQOS, lil HYBRID* and lil SOLID Ez*.

This technology requires additional information for consumers that is provided on our IQOS website and in our product warnings.


* As per the global collaboration agreement between PMI & KT&G, first announced in January 2020—PMI will distribute, outside of Korea, a variety of heated tobacco systems from the KT&G portfolio. After three years of successful collaboration, PMI announced arrangements to extend and deepen the collaboration with KT&G in January 2023. The agreements provide long-term exclusive rights for PMI to commercialize KT&G’s innovative smoke-free products outside of South Korea. The trademark license agreement covers fifteen years, to January 29, 2038, with performance-review cycles and associated commitments, based on volume, to be confirmed for each three-year period, to allow flexibility for evolving market conditions.





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Also known as heat-not-burn products, these alternatives to smoking heat tobacco below the level of burning to release nicotine and flavors.

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The difference between cigarette smoke and our heated tobacco aerosol?

A cigarette burns tobacco, our heated tobacco product heats it. This fundamental difference results in significantly reduced levels of harmful and potentially harmful constituents found in the aerosol it produces.

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