MILWAUKEE – A 20-year-old former star high school athlete from southeastern Wisconsin is hospitalized in Florida with severe lung injuries he and his family believe are linked to vaping. The man's father said he is in shock over how fast his otherwise healthy, athletic son got sick.
"Last Wednesday, he was doing 25 to 30 pullups a day. And on Friday, there's talk of him being intubated," he said in an interview. "That's how quick it goes."
The kid's CAT-scan indicated that he now has the lungs of a 70 year-old. It's rather amazing that while adverts for tobacco products have been banned for years, the manufacturers of these things aren't subject to the same rules.
Federal officials said Friday there were 193 potential cases of lung ailments linked to e-cigarettes reported by 22 states.
How cool is that?
