TY - JOUR T1 - Philip Morris patents ‘harm reduction’ electronic waterpipe JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-055885 SP - tobaccocontrol-2020-055885 AU - Mohammed Jawad AU - Alan Shihadeh AU - Rima T Nakkash Y1 - 2020/06/25 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2020/06/25/tobaccocontrol-2020-055885.abstract N2 - On 18 April 2019, a patent filed by Philip Morris Products SA was published entitled ‘Shisha device for heating a substrate without combustion’.1 The patent describes a waterpipe apparatus that contains a complex electric heating element with a cartridge containing an ‘aerosol-generating substrate’.1 The design appears to interchangeably accommodate solid or liquid substrates that may or may not contain tobacco, non-tobacco plant material or nicotine salts. Two weeks later, the same group had another patent published entitled ‘Shisha consumable article’, which went into more detail about … ER -