TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Kansas Department of Health has confirmed the first death in the state associated with an outbreak of serious lung disease related to vaping or using e-cigarettes. The recent death was a Kansas resident over the age of 50. According to Kansas State Epidemiologist Dr. Farah Ahmed, the patient had a…
An 18-year-old showed up in a Long Island emergency room, gasping for breath, vomiting and dizzy. When a doctor asked if the teenager had been vaping, he said no. The patient’s older brother, a police officer, was suspicious. He rummaged through the youth’s room and found hidden vials of marijuana for vaping.
The Centers for Disease Control is investigating more than 100 cases of a mysterious lung disease linked to the use of e-cigarettes. The CDC is working with departments of health in Wisconsin, Illinois, California, Indiana and Minnesota co learn more about clusters of illnesses – primarily among adolescents and young adults – tied to vaping.…
A Florida college student is warning others about the dangers of smoking Juul pods after one of his lungs collapsed from the toxic chemicals in his mint-flavored pods. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Chance Ammirata, an 18-year-old student at Florida International University, said he woke up on July 29 with extreme pain on his…
Fourteen teens and young adults have been hospitalized in Wisconsin and Illinois for breathing problems potentially linked to vaping, health officials in both states announced Friday. In Wisconsin, severe lung disease has sent 11 people to the hospital, according to the state’s Department of Health Services. That’s three more than the eight cases the state…
Today, Drummond was at the Capitol where Gov. Kay Ivey held a ceremonial signing for eight bills, including legislation to regulate the sales of vaping products and prohibit sales to anyone under 19. The eight bills are among dozens that have become law in Alabama this year. (A partial list and link to a full…
UTSA criminal justice professor Dylan Jackson recently published one of the first studies to explore emerging drug use in the form of adolescent vaping and its association with delinquency among 8th and 10th grade students across the nation.
E-cigarette use among schoolchildren in the USA is increasing rapidly, with unprecedented rises in the 12 months up to January, 2019. This sharp increase has not gone unnoticed by US health officials—on Dec 18, 2018, Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued a call to action highlighting the importance of “protecting children from a lifetime of nicotine…
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) — People who vape might increase their odds of suffering a stroke, heart attack or heart disease, a new study suggests. Federal survey data revealed that compared with nonusers, people who use e-cigarettes have a:
Most of what we know about nicotine addiction in teens, we know from cigarettes. But experts say the technology and chemistry of vaping might pose an entirely different threat. “It turns out that e-cigarette use by kids doesn’t look the same at all,” said Dr. Sharon Levy, director of the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction…