Teenage girl’s lung collapses after vaping equivalent of 400 cigarettes a week
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenage-girls-lung-collapses-after-33005304
by Derry_Amc
Teenage girl’s lung collapses after vaping equivalent of 400 cigarettes a week
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenage-girls-lung-collapses-after-33005304
by Derry_Amc
28 comments
The dad said
“For kids there should definitely be a ban, especially the throw-away ones. These chemicals that they’ve got in them haven’t been tested properly.”
The 61-year-old said he himself vaped for 13 years to help quit smoking but had no issues.
The thing is, you can’t tell your kids not to do something and then do it yourself.
And where did she get the money from?
It’s worrying how many young people vape without realising the dangers. This girl saying she’d use the ‘4,000 puff ones’ and ‘go through them in a week’ is mad!!
We need a huuuuuge clamp down on who can sell these things and where. We’ve let it get way out of control and it’s going to take some harsh penalties to bring things back to sanity.
That’s a load of shit. If she’s on a 2% nicotine pen and it’s 4000 puffs then it’s not 400! There is like 12mg of nicotine in a cigarette, a shit one at that. If you smoke 5 of them in a row you’d know about it. I’m not saying she didn’t over do it but lets be real. My Dad smoked 60 a day for a while so that’s 420 a week…. I’m fairly sure most pens are 400mg and 2% isn’t anywhere near 400 proper cigarettes. But that is quick math but regardless
Lamentably poor parenting in enabling this.
I know kids will kind of do what they want but it seems she was doing it almost non-stop. It would have been noticeable and it would have cost money.
That’s a surprisingly apt image showing on the TV behind her.
Parenting fail. Plain and simple. Don’t blame the vape companies. Blame yourself for not keeping an eye on your own fucking kid. How can you sit there and just let your teenage daughter complete a 4000 or whatever puff vape in a week every week?!
I’ve smoked since 18 im 31 now been on the vape for 3 years. I think vapes are worse because you literally have it in your hand constantly. I never understand why people who have never smoked go straight onto vapes it’s idiotic. Its not cool it looks pretty stupid and I’m totally aware of it. But how does a teenager get access to that amount?
Every time I have this conversation with people about how vaping is not safe and can cause collapsed lungs I get IRL downvoted into oblivion because “it’s not smoking, how could I know”. The dozens of medical cases documenting how vaping is damaging to your lungs is not enough for these people. I say this as an ex smoker – don’t vape. Get all the help to quit nicotine. The only thing going in your lungs should be fresh air!
Vaping if anything has caused a surge in kids smoking this crap with the bright colours and vibrant flavours they advertise them with. These vape companies know what they’re doing and children is 10000% one of their core demographics they want business from. The sad thing is society views them as some lesser evil than smoking.
Until our government grows some balls and clamp down on these being sold to kids with extremely harsh financial punishments I’m afraid more kids will suffer the effects of vaping addiction and ruining their health
I’ll never be able to wrap my head around the fact tobacco and cigarette packaging has been made this mucky baby poo greeny brown and hidden behind shutters, yet vapes are often not even behind counters! Where is the sense?!
I always thought smoking was a filthy habit. I still do but vaping irritates me even more with its ‘trendy’ bamboo counter vape shops and the horrific amount of extra plastic and trash that plagues the lands because of these things. If you can’t find the strength to quit then you are a weak minded fool. It’s the damn truth. There’s no benefit for you, you’re literally making terrible people rich and polluting the environment! Yes I’m a total cunt but at least I don’t vape. Bring on the downvotes from the crack fiends! It’s my sweet sweet nectar.
It was a 4000 puff disposables, which means it’s illegal in the UK and not regulated. I’m guessing it was over the legal nicotine limit too bit the article does not mention the mg.
This should be a push to only buy legal regulated vapes. 14 year olds will vape, just like all the 14 year old who were smoking 10 years ago. Better to make sure all the products on the market are safe for when this will inevitably happen again.
I like that no one blames the sellers who are extremely happy making money off selling these to teenagers and kids.
It’s everyones fault except the people not following the law because they’re making money and making money = good
The background of that prom picture is tragically comic. It’s literal foreshadowing looming over her shoulder.
I think that by now, a lot of people are familiar with Edward Bernays (a nephew of Freud) and the propaganda work that he did on behalf of the tobacco companies in the 20’s… He basically leveraged a combination of his understanding of his uncle’s work and his deviousness to spearhead a campaign that manipulated women to take up smoking, thereby essentially doubling the customer base of tobacco companies.
I remember reading somewhere that his work on that project was one of the things that he truly regretted in his career.
It just pains me knowing that our society is so sick, people rarely mention the absolute army of bellends who must work day-in, day-out on campaigns targeting this nonsense specifically towards children. The idea of marketers, product designers, graphic designers, branding people, project managers and whoever else sitting around and painstakingly peddling this stuff to kids makes me nauseous.
I know a lot of people will blame the parents and sometimes the children themselves, but some people are more susceptible than others and it comes down to a battle of wills between an impressionable and susceptible kid on the one hand, and heavily-funded and effective marketing on the other.
> These chemicals that they’ve got in them haven’t been tested properly.
The US has this same issue, although I believe that when we we part of the EU there were guidelines about that sort of thing which protected us.
I’d imagine they’re all long gone now.
> In Kyla’s case, a small air blister known as a pulmonary bleb developed in her lung. The blister is thought to have burst due to excessive vaping, which in turn caused her lung to collapse.
So did the vaping cause the blep? Or was it just that the heavy breathing of vaping caused it to burst?
Never heard of a pulmonary bleb until I read this story, so I just looked them up.
It says they can be caused by smoking but they can also occur spontaneously.
[What is a lung bleb?](https://ezra.com/blog/what-is-a-lung-bleb)
So does vaping cause them in the same way that smoking can, or is this just correlation rather than causation?
Or is it a case that it was there, and might have done no harm, were it not for the vaping?
Why do the newsagents lock the cigarettes up behind the counter but then put flashy colourful vapes next to the sweets to attract children??
Poor Kyla, hope she makes a full recovery. The legal age to vape is 18. If a child drinks a bottle of whisky should we also ban whisky?
This is a parenting fail. Can’t go around blaming others. How in the world do you condone your kid vaping (and to those degree..) ?
I mean to quote her dad and the article:
“I’ve been to hell and back with Kyla over the last couple of weeks. I just put it down to vaping, they can’t put it down to anything else but vaping that’s caused this.”
“They think it is the throw-away vapes that burst these blebs and puncture a hole in your lungs.”
“An X-ray later found the teen had a hole in her lung, which developed from a pulmonary bleb.”
“Full-time carer Mark says issues with Kyla’s health first began in November 2023 when she was rushed to hospital after he thought she was having a heart attack”
So as a summary the 17 year old girl started having issues with her health in November 2023 which found she had a pulmonary bleb. He’s also a ‘full time carer’ but for whom, her? A bleb by the way can occur in a non-smoker or vaper so we don’t know whether all this was caused by vaping or that she was already poorly and vaping aggrevated the problem or if it’s just pure coincidence she vapes but had this health issue anyway. Though there is a link to smoking and vaping bursting these blebs so if you have one best not to smoke or vape likewise with any lung condition – common sense really.
There’s little evidence that the vaping caused all her health issues, could it have contributed to it making it worse… Probably. But they knew she had these health issues in November 2023 almost 8 months ago and yet her father and herself continued to let her vape consistently for a further 8 months to this extent whilst she was underage anyway?
Something doesn’t add up right here. I understand the dad and her are going through a hard time but please, quote a doctor explicity saying all this was down to her vape and here’s the scientific evidence to back it and I’ll believe it they won’t by the way because they don’t know for sure. This sounds like a panicked father who needs something to blame and God forbid if he blames his or his own daughters actions/choices. Why people are so high up on their own pedestal they can’t reflect and understand it might be themselves that are the problem is beyond me.
This daily mirror article is written appallingly with no evidence to back up claims just a load of hear-say, guess work and lack of detail. Just rubbish.
One story out of millions of positive ones.
The people calling for bans are utter cunts, some of which will happily put a line or two of coke up their noses.
Vaping was mainly a dorky pastime for ex smokers blowing huge clouds of low nicotine vapour and being laughed at. THEN the government regulated it, limiting capacity to 2ml thus promoting higher strength and cheap, small concealable devices that are perfect for a teenager. Ill informed regulators have done more harm than good.
What was she vaping? Had to have been from a sketch place, no evidence from NHS or PHE indicates that vapes can cause pneumothorax.
Again, only vape if you’re trying to quit smoking and avoid the shitty disposables
But nowhere does it say vaping causes the lung issue that led to this, what moron continues to vape when they have a lung bleb 🤣
It’s interesting when you actually see the two different small cultures of the cigarette smokers and the vapers throughout a day that you realise that vaping definitely isn’t as healthy as it’s being peddled. People who smoke cigarettes I have noticed occasionally go off for a cigarette. Vapers on the other hand seem to be constantly taking in a hit of nicotine if they are allowed the chance to vape inside etc. The bigger issue at hand tbh is In my opinion Weed Vapes. Some have been found to have SpiceK2Heroin in them along with a host of other synthetic cannabinoids.