Accord

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Contents 1 Manufacturer 2 Description 3 Claims 4 Images 5 Media 6 Publications 7 Industry Documents 8 Links 9 Patents 10 Notes

[edit] Manufacturer

Philip Morris USA Website
Philip Morris USA
Altria

[edit] Description

Cigarette smoking system using an electronic cigarette lighter and cleaning unit. Cigarettes are inserted into a hand-held heater that heats the rod. Uses a device called a lighter that heats the tobacco (about the size of an electronic pager). The special Accord cigarette is inserted into the lighter. The lighter electronically heats the tobacco. Heating the tobacco and releasing a favored smoke. Ultra low regular and Ultra Low Menthol. Accord - TM has been upgraded to a new test product called Heat Bar.

[edit] Claims

The premium blend of tobaccos in Accord cigarettes guarantees a satisfying ultra low tar taste. Accord produces a lot less smoke because you smoke it in the Puff-Activated Lighter. And with less smoke around you and around others, there's virtually no lingering odor. And there's never any ash because the cigarette isn't burning up in the lighter.^[1]
Less environmental tobacco smoke, fewer carcinogens. Virtually no lingering odor. No ashes. A new way to smoke.

[edit] Images

Accord Gallery

Accord cigarette dissected

Accord Offer

Accord pieces

Heatbar, the next generation of Accord being tested in Germany

[edit] Media

The Accord Cigarette - Philip Morris
New Device Puff Activated Lighter 1997 320x280 display from GoogleVideo

[edit] Publications

• New tobacco products: do smokers like them?

• Tobacco industry consumer research on socially acceptable cigarettes

• How cigarette additives are used to mask environmental tobacco smoke

• Hope or Hazard? What Research Tells Us About "Potentially Reduced Exposure" Products

• Preliminary evaluation of a novel smoking system: effects on subjective and physiological measures and on smoking behavior

[edit] Industry Documents

• Philip Morris to Test Device That Reduces Smoke 19971023

• News Channel 10 Midday - "And you can say goodbye to secondhand smoke from regular cigarettes." 19971027

• Accord Owners Guide

• Smith Barney Tobacco Research; Feldman, M. "Mo Launches Consumer Tests on 'Accord' - A Microchip-Based Smoke". 23 Oct 1997.

• New-Tech Cigarette: Smoking Without Pleasure.

• Accord A new cigarette and a new way to smoke.

[edit] Links

• PBS Nova series:Search for a safe cigarette

• Video Clip Nova News Minute "Safe" Cigarette Fails

• Issue: Philip Morris Develops Accord, A New “Low Smoke” Cigarette Brand

• The Cigarette Companies and “Safer” Cigarettes A Long History of Exploiting Consumers’ Health Concerns to Keep Them Smoking

• Philip Morris Testing “Accord” in Richmond

• Analysts Mixed on Philip Morris’ Smoking System

[edit] Patents

• 1997 Electrical lighter with a rotatable tobacco supply. F. Murphy Sprinkel et al

• 2002 Electrically heated cigarette smoking system with internal manifolding for puff detection John Louis Felter et al

[edit] Notes

1. ↑ "Less Smoke Around You. Virtually No Lingering Odor. No Ashes. Accord A New Cigarette and A New Way to Smoke." Sept 1997 (est.). Bates: 2060532601-2060532614.[1]