{"id":8780,"date":"2025-06-23T19:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8780\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T19:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T19:26:16","slug":"it-feels-like-im-breathing-through-a-straw-terrifying-vaping-warning-after-man-suffers-heart-attack-at-24-and-has-lungs-of-a-70-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8780\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It feels like I’m breathing through a straw’: Terrifying vaping warning after man suffers heart attack at 24 and has ‘lungs of a 70-year-old’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man\u00a0who was left with the lungs of a ’70-year-old’ has urged people to avoid e-cigarettes at all costs, after doctors said his habit triggered the permanent damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jacob Temple, from Kentucky<\/a>, first started vaping when he was just 12-years-old, under the impression that it was ‘safer’ than traditional smoking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But at just 24-years-old, the painter suffered a near-fatal mini heart attack and medics discovered his addiction had left him with lifelong scarring in his lungs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a TikTok video<\/a>, now seen almost 4million times, Mr Temple warned that he now\u00a0 ‘feels like I’m breathing through a straw constantly’ and warned that the habit ‘almost took my life’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His case,\u00a0which will undoubtedly alarm parents, is another example of the youth vaping epidemic, which experts have called ‘disturbing’ and demanded immediate action to stamp out.<\/p>\n

Figures show how the proportion of kids using e-cigarettes has exploded amid the decline of traditional smoking, with more than a third of 16 to 18-year-olds in the UK now regularly inhaling them.<\/p>\n

‘This is a public service announcement for anyone who is still using those electronic robot d**** to breathe in flavoured air. Stop,’ he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I now have the lungs of a 70-year-old man.\u00a0All the small airway tubes at the bottom of your lungs, those are scarred up, permanently, forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jacob Temple, from Kentucky , first started vaping when he was just 12-years-old, under the impression that it was ‘safer’ than traditional smoking. But at just 24-years-old, the painter suffered a near-fatal mini heart attack and medics discovered his addiction had left him with lifelong scarring in his lungs\u00a0<\/p>\n

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‘I can never inflate or deflate my lungs to one hundred percent, ever again in my life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘It feels like I’m breathing through a straw constantly. Always. Just never getting enough air and there’s nothing that can be done.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘The scar tissue is permanent. Please stop.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a bid to\u00a0tackle the surge in youth vaping, from June 1, it was made illegal for\u00a0businesses to sell or supply single-use vapes, such as Elf bars and Lost Mary, in shops and online.<\/p>\n

Only devices considered reusable\u2014with a rechargeable battery and replaceable coil\u2014are now allowed.<\/p>\n

So popular was the move in Westminster that although the Tories drew up the legislation, Labour took it over and pushed it through after winning last year’s General Election.<\/p>\n

Unlike smoking, vaping involves inhaling nicotine in a vapour rather than smoke, supposedly removing the two most harmful elements of smoking, burning tobacco and producing carbon monoxide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Because of this, health chiefs, have suggested that vaping is less harmful than smoking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Roughly one in ten adults are estimated to be hooked on vaping, as smoking rates fall\u00a0<\/p>\n

However. the long-term effects of e-cigarettes still remain a mystery.<\/p>\n

Doctors have expressed fear there could be a wave of lung disease, dental issues and even cancer<\/a> in the coming decades in people who took up the habit at a young age.<\/p>\n

According to the American Lung Association, inflammation from vaping can occur after just a month of vaping, as nanoparticles from the vapour progressively become embedded in lung tissue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr Ceclie Rose, a US-based lung specialist,\u00a0said: ‘Chronic vaping of these chemicals could lead to substantial adverse lung health outcomes in the longer term.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘We\u2019re very well-conditioned to taking a careful history for those patients who smoke, but we need the same to be true for vaping now too.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Steroids and inhalers can help manage symptoms like shortness of breath, but in most cases, a sufferer’s lungs will never function at full capacity again.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other common symptoms include a cough, chest pain, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr Temple initially dismissed his persistent cough, but became increasingly worried when he started to experience severe abdominal pain.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A shocking MailOnline investigation last year even uncovered vapes resembling sweets and high street stores selling the devices next to chocolate and fruit gummies<\/p>\n

‘I had serious pains where my kidney and liver are. I was really worried that I had something going on with them,’ he told the TikTok video.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I would literally wake up sweating bullets and shivering and the whole side of my bed would be soaked, not to mention that I would wake up being unable to breathe completely,’ he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘In my sleep, I would cough to the point that my lungs would fill up with air, because I could inhale fully, but not exhale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘So I would breathe in air and not be able to get it all out and that would compound to the point where I had to either use a nebuliser or not be alive in the next five minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘My blood oxygen level was at 80 per cent. I had a literal mini heart attack while hooked up to the EKG. I was 24\u2014that should not be happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘It almost took my life.’<\/p>\n

It comes as research earlier this year<\/a> found the high\u00a0nicotine content in vapes increases\u00a0heart rate and blood pressure, as it does in smokers, making blood vessels constrict and damage artery walls.<\/p>\n

British scientists discovered both smokers and vapers, who had similar fitness levels, suffered\u00a0damaged artery walls that can no longer dilate\u2014an almost certain sign of future serious cardiovascular problems.<\/p>\n