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  2. Health effects of electronic cigarettes - Wikipedia

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    E-cigarettes are marketed as "free of primary and second-hand smoke risk" due to no carbon monoxide or tar is expected to be generated during use. [142] However, there is a concern for the health impact of nicotine and other ingredients. [142] Exposure to second-hand vapor may be common. [139]

  3. Passive smoking - Wikipedia

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    Passive smoking is the inhalation of tobacco smoke, called passive smoke, secondhand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), by individuals other than the active smoker. It occurs when tobacco smoke diffuses into the surrounding atmosphere as an aerosol pollutant , which leads to its inhalation by nearby bystanders within the same ...

  4. Fact check: Second-hand smoke is dangerous - AOL

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    Fact check: Second-hand smoke is dangerous. August Graham, PA. August 30, 2024 at 10:15 AM. An online post claimed it is a “lie that passive smoking (is) dangerous to non-smokers”.

  5. Electronic cigarette - Wikipedia

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    Critics of vaping bans state that vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking tobacco products and that vaping bans incentivize people to return to smoking cigarettes. [331] For example, critics cite the British Journal of Family Medicine in August 2015 which stated, "E-cigarettes are 95% safer than traditional smoking."

  6. We Were Wrong To Panic About Secondhand Smoke (opinion) - AOL

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    Having put the cancer risk from secondhand smoke in the proper perspective relative to the risk from smoking, the CA study combines the two exposures to obtain the total number of cancer cases and ...

  7. Vaping could be key to help people quit smoking, study says - AOL

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    Not just blowing smoke: Those looking to quit smoking have greater chances of success if they start using e-cigarettes, according to a new study. Vaping could be key to help people quit smoking ...

  8. Health effects of tobacco - Wikipedia

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    Second-hand smoke is a mixture of smoke from the burning end of a cigarette, pipe or cigar, and the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers. It is involuntarily inhaled, lingers in the air hours after cigarettes have been extinguished, and may cause a wide range of adverse health effects, including cancer, respiratory infections, and asthma. [254]

  9. Cigarette - Wikipedia

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    An electronic cigarette (commonly known as a vape) is a handheld battery-powered vaporizer that simulates smoking by providing some of the behavioral aspects of smoking, including the hand-to-mouth action of smoking, but without combusting tobacco. [49] Using an e-cigarette is known as "vaping" and the user is referred to as a "vaper". [50]