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4/19/2010
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning that smokeless tobacco products are the second most common cause of nicotine poisoning in children, after cigarettes. New flavored tobacco products, that look like breath mints or breath strips, may be life-threatening for children who mistake them for candy. Data from 61 poison control centers found 13,705 cases of tobacco ingestion between 2006 and 2008, most in infants. Smokeless tobacco was involved in 1,768 of the cases.
Source: CNN
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