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A variety of nicotine products are on display on a shop counter, including cigarettes, several types of e-cigarettes and pod vapes, and smokeless tobacco. In recent years, electronic vapor products have become the fastest-growing segment of the tobacco industry.

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cognitive: referring to the ability of the mind to process various types of information refilling fluid: nicotine-rich fluids that go inside of open-system vaping pens to provide users with their buzz or high smoking-cessation tools: devices or products designed to help people quit smoking tobacco products, such as nicotine-flavored gum, nicotine patches, and electronic vapor devices vaping: the use of small, hand-held vaporizing devices to inhale nicotine, marijuana, or flavored fluids vaporizing: to turn a liquid into vapor using heat or other energy sources

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Vaping: The New Cool Way to a Shorter Life