Last updated: February 27, 2025
Key Terms
Heated Tobacco Product
For the purpose of this review, we will be using the term “HTP” when referring to a “heated tobacco product.”
Tobacco Product
“Tobacco” means a product made from the whole or part of the tobacco material processed in the form of cigarette, cigar, loose tobacco fiber, water pipe tobacco and other types.
The definition of “tobacco product” is significant because it includes tobacco inserts. The definition of “tobacco product” includes “products made from the whole or part of the tobacco material” in the forms described and "other types." Tobacco inserts fall within this definition.
Any product entirely or partly made of the leaf tobacco as a raw material which is manufactured to be used for smoking, sucking, chewing, or snuffing. (FCTC Art. 1(f))
