How IQOS ILUMA Heats TEREA Without a Blade: SMARTCORE Explained
If you've moved from an older IQOS to IQOS ILUMA in Dubai, you'll have noticed that the ILUMA holder has no blade and doesn't need cleaning. That's because ILUMA heats the tobacco differently. It uses a system Philip Morris International calls SMARTCORE induction, and it only works because each TEREA stick is built differently from the HEETS sticks that came before it. This guide explains how that heating works, what it changes in daily use, why TEREA, HEETS and BLENDS can't be swapped between devices, and what the UAE summer means for an ILUMA. How Older IQOS Devices Heated Tobacco Earlier IQOS models, such as the IQOS 3 DUO and the IQOS ORIGINALS DUO, use a heating blade. The blade sits inside the holder, and when you push a HEETS stick in, the blade slides into the tobacco plug. The device then heats the blade, and the blade heats the tobacco around it. That design works, but it has three practical drawbacks: Cleaning. Tobacco sticks to the blade and builds up i...