Posted on 04/14/2023 10:48:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Mother of 16-year-old boy, who is in serious condition, urges other parents to not let their children use electronic cigarettes
A teenager was hospitalized Thursday due to collapsed lungs that were apparently caused by using electronic cigarettes.
The 16-year-old boy was being treated at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel, where he was listed in serious condition.
The hospital said he was being treated in the intensive care unit with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine, which provides cardiac and respiratory assistance.
The boy’s mother asked Israelis to pray for his health and urged other parents not to let their children use electronic cigarettes, often referred to as vapes.
The Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians called for greater preventive measures to block the sale of tobacco products to children and urged a ban on electronic cigarettes.
“Using electronic cigarettes endangers lives,” Hagai Levine, a leading public health official, tweeted in response.
In 2019, the Health Ministry considered a total ban on electronic cigarettes due to reports regarding electronic cigarette-related deaths in the US amid a surge in vape usage, particularly among young people.
In June, the US Food and Drug Administration banned the sale of vape products produced by Juul Labs Inc., due to the high levels of nicotine found in the flavored oils produced by the company.
Israel already placed a ban on importing Juul products containing more than 20 milligrams of nicotine in 2018. Electronic cigarette usage remains legal.
Awesome..gotta love stupidity.
Interesting. I’m curious what is the “older one”?
The cheap, synthetic nicotine that’s sold in minimarts and preferred by our government (no surprise) does that almost immediately. I consider them very dangerous. Sadly, most teens don’t have the money for the good ones that can only be sold by licensed smoke shops. I’ve been vaping 2 years now and never cough. I bought a cheap one once before I knew, developed a horrible cough and developed a gravely voice. I pitched it and the problems resolved.
Trazadone is almost forgotten as an antidepressant but is still used as a hypnotic. I’m actually getting both benefits from it which is a bonus. I’m not waking up feeling down now.
“The Israeli Association of Public Health Physicians called for greater preventive measures to block the sale of tobacco products to children and urged a ban on electronic cigarettes.”
Vape pens are not a tobacco product as they are used with just about anything. And if this kid had been smoking traditional cigarettes he would not even be sick at this point in his life.
We are coming to a time when lifespans for ordinary folks are about to drastically lower. Maybe all of human kind will be wiped out in the end. It will be if there is no intervening God.
I don’t buy it. I vaped for a short time after quitting cigarettes. It turned me back to the ciggybuts. I never did inhale the vapes though.
Let people live and choose the method of their demise.
Wait so you quit smoking, then went to vaping, then the vaping made you start smoking again? Did you ever quit?
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14 year old was coughing due to dust in the air while mowing a lawn, btw.
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Some people have congenital cysts on their lungs, constituting a weak spot.
I knew someone, then in their late 20s, who had a spontaneous pneumothorax from snow shoveling on a very cold day.
This was the headline in every paper before the coronavirus pandemic. People tried to vape an oil based THC product They bought on the street from some guy. When the oil heats it coats the lungs.
This has absolutely nothing to do with people quitting smoking with harm reduction nicotine electronic cigarettes. It’s a scare tactic
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