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Switching from tobacco smoking to vaping e-cigarettes reduces exposure to tobacco-related toxicants and likely associated diseases. We compared levels of nicotine and tobacco-related toxicant exposure among people with versus without EoP.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Cross-sectional study, secondary data analysis of Wave 5 (2018) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Setting<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Data collection took place in the USA at the home of participants.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Participants<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Data were from 5750 adults (aged &gt;18 years) with and without EoP who smoked, vaped, did both or did neither. 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Levels of nicotine and TSNA metabolites, cadmium, uranium and some VOCs were significantly higher among participants with EoP compared with those without. 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