An increasing number of people have been hospitalized for severe respiratory problems that appear to be caused by vaping
Photo: 6okean/Getty Images/iStockphoto Over the past few months, an increasing number of people have been hospitalized for severe respiratory problems that appear to be caused by vaping. Many of them have been teens; according to the Centers for Disease Control, one in five high schoolers uses e-cigarettes. The cases have stumped doctors and public-health officials, who were already struggling to get young people to stop vaping.
Last Friday, the first vaping-related death was reported in Illinois. At a news conference held last week, the CDC said that the patient, who remains anonymous, was an adult who had succumbed to severe respiratory illness after vaping. However, many patients reported using products that contained THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, leading some to suspect that cannabis oil may be to blame. Ray Niaura, a professor of public health at NYU, told USA Today that he doubted the recent outbreak is linked to e-cigarettes that have been on the market for a long time.
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