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Abstract

Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes - battery-operated nicotine-delivery devices that mimic the look and feel of smoking by vaporizing a liquid solution such as propylene glycol - appeared in European and American markets less than a decade ago. Sales have reached $650 million a year in Europe and are projected to reach $1.7 billion in the United States in 2013. Though these figures are a small fraction of sales figures for traditional cigarettes, e-cigarettes represent a substantial market achievement; indeed, some people predict that they may eventually eclipse tobacco cigarettes. But e-cigarettes are the subject of a public health dispute that . . .

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Tobacco smoking, Smoking, United States, Tobacco, Nicotine, Propylene glycol, Cigarette, Electronic cigarette

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