1.   Eclipse heats a mixture of tobacco and glycerine by means of a glowing tip of smoldering charcoal, rather than burning the tobacco itself.

2.   Flavor and nicotine are carried to smokers on heated vapor, eliminating many he dangerous substances created when tobacco is burned.

3.   The anti-smoking groups contend that the new tobacco product is not really a cigarette but a drug delivery device because it delivers nicotine and does not burn tobacco.

4.   The glycerine thus makes a smoke-like medium that can carry the tobacco flavors without burning the tobacco.

5.   Every March, at the beginning of season, the Iroquois Nation team burns sacred tobacco and prays that no one is injured.