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Third-hand smoke refers to the pollutants that settle indoors when tobacco is smoked

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Dynamics resemble other cases of a population shift from one product to another Taking the full context into account not just the rise in vaping in isolation but the concomitant decline in smoking the dynamics start to look like the population shifting from one product to another, while maintaining an overall steady or slightly declining prevalence of any nicotine use