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Reports of US children under six ingesting nicotine pouches – the small rectangles containing flavored nicotine that have exploded in popularity – jumped 763% in just three years, according to a study published on Monday. Several of the children ended up in intensive care after ingesting the pouches and two children died, the report said. The uptick in poisonings comes …

The number of young children sickened after getting their little hands on nicotine products like pouches and vape e-liquids has skyrocketed in recent years. From 2010 through 2023, U.S. poison centers reported 134,663 cases of nicotine poisonings among kids under age 6, according to a study published Monday in Pediatrics, a journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Nearly all …