Would nicotine do anything if not inhaled?

It could poison you: the new nicotine liquids used in electronic cigarettes can be absorbed through skin and there have been poisonings, particularly in children from these new products, some of which resulted in fatalities. I once answered a ? about industrial exposure in tobacco workers, and I ignorantly said I was unaware of any. But there are - nicotine poisoning is hazard in growers, pickers, and factory workers