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Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) refers to exposure to tobacco smoke, not from your smoking but from being exposed to someone else’s cigarette, cigar or pipe smoke. Breathing in ETS is known as passive smoking, second-hand smoke, or involuntary smoking.

Tobacco smoke consists of solid particles and gases. More than 7,000 different chemicals have been identified in tobacco smoke. The solid particles make up about 10% of tobacco smoke and include tar and nicotine. The gases or vapours make up about 90% of tobacco smoke. The major gas present is carbon monoxide.

The e-cigarette is the most widely used form of non-tobacco nicotine (NTN) which consist of a device containing a heating element that atomises a solution containing water, nicotine, propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine, and usually some flavouring. 

Similar to tobacco smoke, vapour generated by e-cigarettes consists of potentially harmful chemicals including volatile organic compounds, aldehydes, tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) carbonyls, and metal particles, but at much lower levels than in cigarette smoke. Vapourisation at high temperatures can produce relatively higher levels of formaldehyde and other aldehydes.