Years ago, this doctor linked a mysterious lung disease to vaping

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In 2015, a West Virginia doctor treated a patient with vaping-linked breathing problems.

Q: Once you figured out the cause could be e-cigarettes, did you contact the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Food and Drug Administration or any other regulatory agency to tell them about this?

We really felt that it wasn’t going to be a one-off event and that it was what we usually called in public health a “sentinel” health event … that it was an example of a respiratory illness that can be caused by this exposure and that it probably wasn’t the first case ever seen nor would it be the last.To our knowledge it was our first case, but we are humble enough clinicians to realize we may have missed some other cases that we interpreted [as] viral pneumonia or bacterial pneumonia.

 

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It should be utilized for infusion of medications in hospital settings as it has been for years. Flavored glycerin tainted with nicotine is an evil pursued by corporate greed.

Raise your hand if you think breathing in smoke from any source on a continuous basis is not bad for your lungs and not likely to lead to lung disease. 🤷‍♂️

Let's sue Juul into bankruptcy.

I assume the answer is MORE VAPING?

You can’t have something for nothing, people. Don’t believe something is safe til you see what happens to the guinea pigs

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