Share of Cost, E-cigarette nicotine refill cartridges pose danger for toddlers

Wednesday, Feb. 25th 2015 6:00 AM

The safety of nicotine refill cartridges used in electronic cigarettes needs to be improved to prevent toddlers accidentally swallowing the contents and potentially coming to serious harm, warn doctors in Archives of Disease in Childhood.

The warning follows their treatment of a suspected case in the UK and emerging US data on the substantial rise of unintentional nicotine poisoning from e-cigarettes among the under 5s.

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