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Vaping Causes Lung Injuries Similar To WWII Mustard Gas

Health officials in England compare the lung damage that vaping causes to that of soldiers inhaling chemical weapons

Monday, October 14, 2019 - The vaping crisis gripping the United States has spread to Europe and now beyond. Australian health authorities are on high alert after a series of deaths that were linked to vaping. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has attributed 1300 vaping related hospital emergency room visits and over 26 deaths to vaping e-cigarettes. Experts in the US are investigating youths that are adding illegal drugs to their vape pen cartridges. Vaping THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, is thought to be behind the sudden epidemic of vaping illnesses and deaths, however, the exact cause is still to be determined. The CDC has contacted health departments and requested that they fill out a form to report what they believe to be the cause of the vaping sicknesses. According to The Guardian, the CDC has confirmed that most of the illnesses and deaths are young adults under the age of 35. JUUL vape pen attorneys offer a free consultation no obligation to American families and people harmed from using the JUUL vape pen

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In a highly disturbing finding, The Guardian reports that doctors at the prestigious US Mayo Clinic report vape-related lung injuries that compare to "chemical burns, similar to those seen in the lungs of people exposed to mustard gas in the second world war." The Independant.co.uk quotes a Mayo Clinic health expert who is deeply concerned with what doctors are finding of the lung condition of their vape sickness patients. "All 17 of our cases show a pattern of injury in the lung that looks like toxic chemical exposure, a toxic chemical fume exposure, or a chemical burn injury,” said Dr. Brandon T. Larsen, a surgical pathologist at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. To be honest, they look like the kind of change you would expect to see in an unfortunate worker in an industrial accident where a big barrel of toxic chemicals spills, and that person is exposed to toxic fumes and there is a chemical burn in the airways."

What may be even more insidious is the fact that vaping lung damage is cumulative and could take weeks or months of vaping before presenting itself. Vape injury victims report severe chest pain and being unable to breathe. When the delicate tissues of the lungs become scarred there is no cure or treatment and victims gradually suffocate to death.

Vaping is a non-combustible form of smoking. An electronic vape device heats a mixture of chemicals to an extreme temperature causing the liquid to become a gas or "vapor." This heat could be much hotter than ordinary cigarette smoke and cause the lung's alveoli tissues to be burned, bleed, heal and scar, losing their elasticity over time. Millions of people around the world could be in danger of having permanent, irreversible lung damage, and to make matters worse, children in middle and high school appear to have been the target of Juul, the leading vape pen manufacturer, social media advertising. Millions of unsuspecting and impressionable young adults probably have had their health ruined by a device that the company marketed directly to them as safe.

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