Heated tobacco has benefitted from an increase in excise duties on some tobacco products in Japan even though they meant a price rise for heat-not-burn (HnB) products too.
The fact that conventional cigarettes were unaffected by increases that included HnB probably dissuaded some smokers from switching. But heated tobacco saw a significant number of users transition over from other types of tobacco.
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