Medical experts warn that incidents like these illustrate the deadly dangers children face as e-cigarettes — and liquid nicotine — become increasingly popular. But in 2014, a 1-year-old boy in Upstate New York died after accidentally ingesting liquid nicotine, authorities said at the time. The girl had ingested about 703 mg of liquid nicotine; a traditional cigarette delivers between 0.2 and 2.4 mg of nicotine. At the same time, the Consumer Product Safety Commission began imposing certain standards, such as the child-resistant packaging for liquid nicotine. “We remain deeply concerned about the risks of unintentional ingestion of liquid nicotine by children,” Quinlan said, arguing regulations are still too lax.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2017 13:05 UTC