A "SHOCKED" teenager admits she continued to vape even when it nearly killed her sister - only for e-cigs to burst a hole in her lung too just weeks later. Tazmin Blight, who has used the devices since she was just 13, says she puffed away at the equivalent of 50 cigarettes a day. This was despite the fact her sister Kyla was hospitalised due to the same habit in May.
Tazmin discovered her lung had collapsed on June 29, just seven weeks after Kyla had emergency surgery when vaping burst a hole in her lung. After experiencing "tightness" in her chest and pain in her back and shoulders, 19-year-old Tazmin assumed she had trapped wind . But her dad, Mark Blight, took her to the hospital in light of Kyla's experience.
The pair were "shocked" when doctors informed the pair that Tazmin's lung had collapsed, just as Kyla's had done. She is currently waiting to hear if she needs surgery. Kyla, 17, was hospitalised on May 11 after vaping similarly burst a hole in her lung.
She is said to have collapsed and "turned blue" while sleeping over at a friend's house, before almost having a cardiac arrest . Kyla has since had an emergency five-and-a-half-hour operation, which involved removing part of her lung. It's thought Kyla's excessive vaping - which amounted to the equivalent of 400 fags a week - caused a small air blister known as a pulmonary bleb to burst.
Tazmin admitted that she used to carry her e-cigarette with her "at all times" and began vaping six years ago. Despite seeing firs.
