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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 16.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Regul Sci. 2017 Oct;3(4):525–535. doi: 10.18001/TRS.3.4.12

Table 2.

Medical Outcome and Healthcare Facility Level of Care of Tobacco-related Poison Events Involving Children Younger than 5 Years Old by Type of Tobacco Product, United States, January 1, 2001 – October 31, 2016

Type of Tobacco Product Medical Outcome Healthcare Facility Level of Care
Major Effect Moderate Effect Minor Effect Treated and Released Admitted to Critical Care Unit Admitted to Non-critical Care Unit
No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%) No. (%)
Cigarettes and Cigarette Butts
 Cigarettes 22 (43.1) 827 (51.0) 15429 (60.8) 10633 (53.6) 150 (54.0) 249 (50.1)
 Cigarette Butts 1 (2.0) 13 (0.80) 236 (0.9) 155 (0.8) 1 (0.4) 4 (0.8)
Smokeless Tobacco
 Chewing Tobacco 4 (7.8) 262 (16.2) 3715 (14.6) 2517 (12.7) 25 (9.0) 45 (9.1)
 Snuff 3 (5.9) 156 (9.6) 1855 (7.3) 1258 (6.3) 15 (5.4) 28 (5.6)
 Dissolvable Tobacco 0 (0.0) 2 (0.1) 9 (0.0) 7 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Cigars 0 (0.0) 17 (1.0) 189 (0.7) 165 (0.8) 3 (1.1) 3 (0.6)
E-cigarettes
 E-cigarette device 8 (15.7) 92 (5.7) 1133 (4.5) 1979 (10.0) 33 (11..9) 51 (10.3)
 E-cigarette liquid 1 (2.0) 29 (1.8) 439 (1.7) 745 (3.8) 9 (3.2) 21 (4.2)
Hookah 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Other Type 1 (2.0) 29 (1.8) 330 (1.3) 266 (1.3) 3 (1.1) 5 (1.0)
Unknown Type 11 (21.6) 193 (11.9) 2025 (8.0) 2109 (10.6) 39 (14.0) 91 (18.3)
Total 51 (100.0) 1620 (100.0) 25360 (100.0) 19834 (100.0) 278 (100.0) 497 (100.0)