2020年8月12日

菲利普莫里斯国际公司的总裁安德烈·卡兰佐普洛斯(Andre Calantzopoulos)说，随着烟民对健康的意识越来越强，并开始转向更安全的替代品，某些市场中的卷烟销售可能会在10到15年内被淘汰。

首席执行官安德烈·卡兰佐普洛斯（Andre Calantzopoulos）在上个月发布的可持续发展报告中说：“我坚信，有可能在10至15年内完全结束许多国家的卷烟销售。他补充说，要使其成为现实，需要监管者的帮助。

万宝路的制造商一直在说公司的目标是实现“无烟未来”，现在已经开始给出具体的时间表。该公司已经将近五分之一的收入来自不燃产品，例如加热烟草设备iQOS。

在讨论有关加热不燃烧产品相对风险的研究时，著名的公共卫生和反吸烟专家KonstantiNOS Farsalinos博士指出，长期以来的科学数据表明，该产品比普通卷烟安全得多。

iQOS市场扩展

PMI公布iQOS发货量增长44.2％，达到597亿个，在2019年最后一个季度增长40.7％，达到171亿个。除美国外，该烟草巨头的IQOS市场份额增长了1.4％到5％。截至2019年底，据估计共有1360万IQOS用户，其中970万是曾经吸烟者改用更安全的替代品。

PMI CEO Says Cigarettes May be OBSolete Within a Decade

August 8, 2020

Philip Morris International CEO Andre Calantzopoulos, said that as smokers become more and more health conscious and start switching to safer alternatives, cigarette sales in some markets may become obsolete within 10 to 15 years.

“I am convinced it is possible to completely end cigarette sales in many countries within 10 to 15 years,” said chief executive Andre Calantzopoulos, in a sustainability report published last month. He added that the help of regulators is needed in order for this to become a reality.

The maker of Marlboro has long been saying that the company’s goal is achieving a “smoke-free future,” and has now started giving a concrete timeline. The company already gets almost a fifth of its revenue from non-combustible products, such as its heated-tobacco device, iQOS.

In discussing studies looking at the relative risks of HNB products, renowned public health and anti-smoking expert Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos, has long been pointing out that scientific data keeps indicating that the products are significantly safer than regular cigarettes.

iQOS market expansion

PMI has posted a 44.2% increase in iQOS shipments, to 59.7bn units, with a 40.7% rise to 17.1bn units in the last quarter of 2019. Excluding the US, the tobacco giant has witnessed a market share increase in IQOS markets by 1.4 percentage points to 5%. At the end of 2019, it was calculated that there were a total of 13.6m IQOS users, of whom 9.7m were former smokers who had switched to the safer alternative.