NSP

      Nicotine Salts Product

      We explored different technologies to mechanically produce a nicotine-containing aerosol without tobacco, combustion, or heating. The result is the nicotine salts product or NSP. This product is currently not being marketed.

      PMI smoke-free products: nicotine salts product
      NSP

      A nicotine-based electronics-free product

      This is a novel product that is composed of two parts; a consumable that contains a highly soluble encapsulated nicotine powder, and a non-electronic device that activates it. Once a consumable is inserted into the mechanical device, the nicotine powder is aerosolized and inhaled solely through the power of breath.

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      Reduced Risk Products ("RRPs”) is the term we use to refer to products that present, are likely to present, or have the potential to present less risk of harm to smokers who switch to these products versus continuing smoking. PMI has a range of RRPs in various stages of development, scientific assessment and commercialization. All of our RRPs are smoke-free products that deliver nicotine with far lower quantities of harmful and potentially harmful constituents than found in cigarette smoke.