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Health officials say nicotine is harmful to developing brains. — Mike Stobbe, The Seattle Times, "Most teen drug use is down, but officials fret vaping boom," 17 Dec. 2018 But health officials have warned nicotine in e-cigarettes is harmful to developing brains. — Fox News, "Calling teen vaping 'epidemic,' officials weigh flavor ban," 13 Sep. 2018 That liquid usually contains nicotine along with a mixture of chemicals and flavorings. — Karen Kaplan, The Seattle Times, "Vaping among teens spikes, luring new generation of kids into tobacco use," 18 Dec. 2018 Jeff Bornstein, the shark-fishing, nicotine-gum-chomping, weightlifting CFO, was crying. — Thomas Gryta And Ted Mann, WSJ, "GE Powered the American Century—Then It Burned Out," 14 Dec. 2018 And if cigarette taxes go up, the health department can track the impact on cigarettes and nicotine gum. — Dan Rosenbaum, Ars Technica, "All hail the AI overlord: Smart cities and the AI Internet of Things," 7 Dec. 2018 What’s concerning about Juul is that each pod pack contains as much nicotine as one to two packs of cigarettes. — Julia Belluz, Vox, "7 bad science and health ideas that should die with 2018," 26 Dec. 2018 Instead of burning tobacco to deliver a nicotine hit, e-cigarettes use a battery to heat a liquid that gives the user the same kind of kick. — Mary Beth Griggs, The Verge, "Big tobacco just spent $12.8 billion to get a taste of Juul," 20 Dec. 2018 What the company claims to not have expected, however, is that teens across the country would get addicted to nicotine by using the flash drive-looking vapes. — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, "Here’s Everything You Need To Know About the Juul Flavor Ban," 15 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nicotine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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