The ten terrible things vaping does to your body: As a 4,000-puff-a-week teen is hospitalised with a collapsed lung...
experts reveal the terrifying health risks By Thea Jourdan Published: 06:59 EDT, 17 June 2024 | Updated: 07:26 EDT, 17 June 2024 e-mail 20 View comments Vaping may be safer than smoking cigarettes for those trying to quit, but the shocking case of a British teenager who was highlighted the risks. Kyla Blight. 17, from Cumbria in England, who started vaping when she was 15, had to be rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung linked to her 4,000 puffs a week on vapes (the equivalent to 400 cigarettes).
She needed a five-and-a-half hour operation to remove part of her lung – doctors found that a blister on the surface of the affected lung had burst, creating a hole in her lung wall. Mail+ has talked to experts across the UK who say that the health problems that vaping cause are only now becoming apparent. Vapes – electronic devices that heat e-liquids containing flavourings, thickening agents, and usually nicotine as well as many other chemicals, to produce an aerosol you then inhale – are used by 4.
5million Britons. 15 per cent of young people in Britain now use vapes, up from 11.1 per cent three years ago And, increasingly, by young people – 15 per cent of those aged between 16 to 24 in the UK now vape – up from 11.
1 per cent in 2021, according to an Opinions and Lifestyle Survey. (In England, e-cigarettes that contain nicotine cannot be legally sold .
