# No more vaping - until they figure out what's going on, anyway

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 4, 2019, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-vaping-until-they-figure-out-whats-going-on-anyway/839699 "2019-09-04T19:32:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-vaping-until-they-figure-out-whats-going-on-anyway/839699/41 "2019-10-04T20:45:24Z")

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Back when I was a kid, my friends and I stole a few cigarettes from our parents and met in our fort in the woods to try it out. I was doing great, and no doubt looking like a really sophisticated 11 year, until my friend, Candy, told me to INHALE. Well I did and a coughing fit ensued that nearly expelled my lungs right onto the dirt floor.

That day was the beginning, and the end, of my days as a smoker.

As I read about the hazards of vaping and not one, but TWO fellow classmates of mine who’ve died (in their 50s) of lung cancer, I thank God for Candy who told me to inhale. Had I not, I might have ended up a lifelong smoker. Alas, Candy’s lungs didn’t mutiny and she kept the habit up.

Kids, don’t be inhaling shit into your lungs. You’ll be needing them later.

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-vaping-until-they-figure-out-whats-going-on-anyway/839699/42 "2019-11-08T18:38:55Z")

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> Federal officials announced Friday they discovered an oily derivative of vitamin E in the lungs of patients hospitalized with vaping-related illnesses, a finding the principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called a “breakthrough.”
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> The additive, vitamin E acetate, is sometimes used as a diluent of THC oil, particularly by street dealers. THC is the compound in marijuana that produces a “high." Of 28 lung tissue samples tested, all contained the additive and 23 contained THC.
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> CDC said Thursday that the outbreak has sickened 2,051 people and resulted in 39 confirmed deaths. The CDC’s Dr. Anne Schuchat said Friday that the “trend in cases appears to be downward, but some states are still being hard hit.”

> **[Nicotine vaping age to go up as CDC calls discovery of THC additive in lungs...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/11/08/vaping-legal-age-go-up-expected-part-flavor-ban-next-week/2529259001/)**
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> President Trump said the legal age for vaping probably will be raised to 21 nationally when the much-anticipated rule on flavored vaping is released next week.

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