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Is nicotine safe?

Clean nicotine, like what’s in FDA-approved medications – nicotine patches, gum, lozenges, or nasal sprays, is safe and can boost your chance of quitting by controlling nicotine cravings.

Nicotine in cigarettes, smokeless, e-cigarette, and vape products makes them addictive. This isn’t safe because:

  • Cigarettes contain harmful chemicals that make smoking dangerous — poisons like arsenic, formaldehyde, and many more cancer-causing chemicals.
  • Smokeless tobacco, like chew, also contains many cancer-causing chemicals.
  • E-cigarettes contain fewer toxic chemicals than regular cigarettes – which have over 7,000 chemicals in their smoke – but vaping is still not safe.
  • E-cigarette vapor or aerosol can contain heavy metals like lead, tin, and nickel. E-cigarettes also contain carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals).

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