Detroit hospital staff performs double-lung transplant on patient with vaping injuries

NY Post ^ | November 12, 2019 | 11:22am | Amanda Woods

[conservative98]

Medical staff at a Detroit hospital say they have performed the world’s first double-lung transplant on a person with vaping-related lung injuries.

The team from the city’s Henry Ford Health System called the operation the first of its kind for a “patient whose lungs were irreparably damaged from vaping,” according to a Monday news release.

[conservative98]

[duckman]

She looks like she has great lungs?

[Mr. K]

They must be losing a lot of that tobacco tax revenue...

[Captain Peter Blood]

Article did not give any information on who the person was. Was it that kid I read about a few weeks ago?

[Meatspace]

Play stupid games, make medical history.

[jerod]

So... Smokers can’t get lung transplants, but vape smokers can? Score one for the vaping industry.

[Balding_Eagle]

I agree that that is a lot of the political reaction.

[cloudmountain]

There are people who smoke all their life and don’t get lung cancer. Their immune system must be SOMETHING ELSE.

[wbarmy]

The who;e room looks like a 70s drug, hippie den. Lava lamps, fake flowers, really bad pastel colored lamps.

The only modern thing is the flat screen.

[from occupied ga]

This morning on the radio I heard the breathless reporting that "According to the CDC at least 40 people have died from vaping related injuries!!!!!" To put that in perspective that is 40/330,000,000 = 0.0000121212% of the population. Or to look at it another way almost ten times as many people (350) died in 2019 from falling off ladders.

In other news Democrat spokesperson, Chicken Little, says the sky is still going to fall in 10 years if we don't:

1. Move into apartments with 50 sq ft allotted to each occupant.
2. Give up our cars and take public transit
3. Completely do away with air travel for the "little people" (NOTE: The important people and government employees will still be able to fly, but since the airlines will not be able to make money on this the airlines will be taxpayer funded branches of the federal government)
4. Surrender all of our life savings and most of our income to the government for the bureaucrats to spend much more wisely than we can
5. And of course surrender our firearms to the government

All for their own good of course. Only morons vote Democrat, but of course half the country and most of the Democrat base is below average intelligence

[Scrambler Bob]

Do they have him in a No Smoking room?

[Bonemaker]

What are these idiots vaping...phosgene?

[Bonemaker]

What are these idiots vaping...phosgene?

[DEPcom]

Survival rate for double lung transplant are not that good. I have a friend who only live a year after double lung transplant.

If the person is young they might make it to 10 years. Depends on your age and etc...

[DEPcom]

Reading a little deeper I see where vitamin e acetate was found in the vaping material.

There has been studies that show Vitamin E can increase a smoker and ex-smoker lung cancer risk. If just taking in the pill form, not sure why a person would want that in their lungs.

[Valpal1]

Whatever the blackmarket chemists are using in their garage that week.

Or cheap chinese imports, hello, this is the country where cutrate chemists used toxic substitutes in both baby formula and dog food because they graduate by rote memorization rather than actually understanding chemistry.

[Carriage Hill]

Zyklon B

[Bob434]

one thing i will say about vaperers is that they inhale very very deeply- not all do- but many do- The old adage still applies- ‘Everything in moderation’ That can’t be good for a person in the long run possibly- BUT- it’s not the actual vape liquids that are doing the damage it appears- it’s the additive E oil they add-

and like a poster above said the amount of people getting sick is way way way lower than those who smoke regular ciggs- but they are really hyping the deaths of vaping obviously for political reasons- not medical-

Now that they are learning Vit E additive is causing the problems, they are now trying a new line to ban or restrict vaping- but I forgot now what it is- but when i heard it I thought “Swell- they can’t blame flavors now- so now they are going after ... to get them banned- they are relentless’. It’ll come to me later what it was- but i got brain lock right now

[conservative98]

I think the difference is a person smoking won’t usually die right away or get severe lung damage in a few short months from smoking regular cigarettes. On the other hand the vaper at 16 just the other day for example nearly died after vaping triggered ‘catastrophic’ lung damage – in just 5 months.