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E-CIGARETTES AND LIQUID NICOTINE

Poison centers began receiving calls about e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine products in 2011, which coincides with the initial period where these products reached the U.S. market. These products often contain a greater concentration of nicotine, a stimulant, than other nicotine/tobacco products on the market. Some children and toddlers who come in contact with e-cigarette devices or liquid nicotine have become very ill; some even requiring emergency department visits with nausea and vomiting being the most significant symptoms.

As of January 31, 2023, poison centers have managed 687 exposure cases about e-cigarette devices and liquid nicotine in 2023. For more information on how poison center data is collected, please click here.


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PREVENTION TIPS

  1. Protect your skin when handling the products.

  2. Take special care to always keep any nicotine-containing product, including e-cigarettes and liquid nicotine, out of the reach of children.

  3. Follow the specific disposal instructions on the label.

  4. If you think someone has been exposed in a dangerous way to an e-cigarette or liquid nicotine, call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222 immediately.

RESOURCES

For more safety information, visit the E-Cigarette and Liquid Nicotine Exposures prevention page.

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Important notes about poison center data

America's Poison Centers maintains the National Poison Data System (NPDS) , the national database of information logged by the country’s regional poison centers serving all 50 United States, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and territories. Case records in this database are from self-reported calls: they reflect only information provided when the public or healthcare professionals report an actual or potential exposure to a substance, request information, or request educational materials. As such:
  • America's Poison Centers is not able to completely verify the accuracy of every report made to member centers.
  • Additional exposures may go unreported to poison centers and data referenced from the association should not be construed to represent the complete incidence of national exposures to any substance(s).
  • Poison call volume about any given substance is influenced by the public’s awareness of the hazard or even the Poison Help line itself, which are heavily influenced by both social and traditional media coverage.
  • Poison center data are considered preliminary and are subject to change until the dataset for a given year has been locked.
  • America's Poison Centers is continuously working to update the NPDS substance coding taxonomy to better serve the needs of America's Poison Centers members and surveillance partners. As a result, substances may be reclassified within NPDS’ coding hierarchy, and case counts may change. This is particularly true for novel or emerging substances.

The term “exposure” means someone has had contact with the substance in some way; for example, ingested, inhaled, or absorbed a substance by the skin or eyes, etc. Exposures do not necessarily represent poisonings or overdoses.

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