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> danger of pure nicotine (which is also nil)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_poisoning#cite_note-L...

"An accidental ingestion of only 6 mg may be lethal to children. [16]"

So, safe as long as you ignore the dead people?

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Please read the entire article to see why this is a non-issue. Can't access the paper to determine just how old the "children" are in this study, but given that you absorb only 1 mg of nicotine from breathing in smoke of a 12mg-nicotine cigarette[0], I'd again treat nicotine poisoning as something not relevant to smoking in the real world.

[0] - http://www.electroniccigaretteconsumerreviews.com/how-much-n...

You get 1 mg of nicotine directly. The other ~11 to 19 hang around. In areas with minimal ventilate the dosage can ramp up.

aka second hand smoke is not limited to other people.

What area are you in that you are worried about airborne nicotine building up to fatal levels? If there is that little airflow, you should be more worried about suffocation.

Do you also apply this sense of morality onto yourself and the damage you might cause other people? Because in that case, get. the hell. off. my planet.

It's only the right thing to do.

Safe, as long as you're not boiling down a pack of cigarettes and precipitating out all of the nicotine in order to then deliberately poison a child, yes. Pure nicotine is absolutely lethal. It's also hard to come by unless you make your own - which you'd only do if you wanted to poison someone.

I was directly quoting someone that said Pure nicotine was safe which it is clearly not.

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