Vaping indoors instead of smoking reduces children’s secondhand nicotine exposure – study

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By Olivia Bowthorpe

Making the switch from smoking to vaping indoors may "substantially reduce” children’s exposure to dangerous airborne substances, a study suggests.

"The data show that children absorb substantially less nicotine after indoor exposure to secondhand e-cigarette vapour compared with secondhand tobacco smoke," researcher Dr Harry Tattan-Birch, research fellow at University College London, told Doctors.net.uk.