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Vaping-associated pulmonary injury (VAPI), [4] also known as vaping-associated lung injury (VALI) [1] or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (E/VALI), [2] [a] is an umbrella term, [15] [16] used to describe lung diseases associated with the use of vaping products that can be severe and life-threatening. [3]
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Even though traditional cigarettes have a higher damage record than e-cigarettes, e-cigarettes can have risks such as the highly publicized and deadly 2019–20 vaping lung illness outbreak in North America that lead to 68 deaths and was strongly linked to vitamin E acetate in THC-containing vaping liquid. [8]
Beyond how it affects mental health, vaping THC — the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis — in particular has caused severe lung injuries linked to the vitamin E acetate found in such devices.
Vaping has slightly declined among teens. The use of e-cigarettes among high schoolers decreased from 14.1% to 10% from 2022 to 2023, the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey found.
Chapman told NBC News that the four teens admitted to Children's Minnesota all arrived with what doctors originally thought was a bad respiratory infection, like pneumonia. But instead of getting ...
News media featured hospitalized lung vaping illness patients in narratives including the following: Dehydration from nausea, multifocal pneumonia, sepsis, acute respiratory failure with hypoxemia, and blood clots, necessitating a medically induced coma and removal of fluid from the lungs. [109] Vomiting, coughing up blood, and lipid pneumonia ...
An 18-year-old's vaping-related illness left him with lungs that more closely resemble a 70-year-old's than those of a teenager, according to his doctors. Vaping illness: Teen's lungs aged 50 ...