Obviously there's no legally mandated definition of what a fake cigarette actually is, so we'll define it as any device that mimics the act of smoking an actual cigarette bringing something to your mouth, taking a "drag," and then exhaling but that doesn't contain tobacco or nicotine, or generate tobacco smoke
School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University
Cigarettes contain many chemicals including nicotine, hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde, lead, arsenic, ammonia, radioactive elements, benzene, carbon monoxide, tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
When nestled between the lip and the gum, nicotine slowly leaks out of the wrapper over the course of around an hour
Protecting them from exposure is good preventive medicine