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Vaping addict hooked to oxygen tank after contracting rare pneumonia
22 Aug, 2019 10:39am
A vaping addict, from Utah, is now relying on an oxygen tank after constantly smoking the e-cigarettes.
Aubree Butterfield shared her tragic story on Facebook about how she contracted pneumonia after "constantly" puffing on her e-cig for three years until a month ago when she began vomiting and coughing up blood.
Doctors found vegetable glycerine, an ingredient commonly found in vape juice, had smothered the 25-year-old's lungs, and diagnosed her with lipoid pneumonia.
Although the nursing assistant has never smoked a cigarette before, she is unable to breathe on her own, depending on an oxygen tank for the next several months of her recovery...
Vaping addict hooked to oxygen tank after contracting rare pneumonia
22 Aug, 2019 10:39am
A vaping addict, from Utah, is now relying on an oxygen tank after constantly smoking the e-cigarettes.
Aubree Butterfield shared her tragic story on Facebook about how she contracted pneumonia after "constantly" puffing on her e-cig for three years until a month ago when she began vomiting and coughing up blood.
Doctors found vegetable glycerine, an ingredient commonly found in vape juice, had smothered the 25-year-old's lungs, and diagnosed her with lipoid pneumonia.
Although the nursing assistant has never smoked a cigarette before, she is unable to breathe on her own, depending on an oxygen tank for the next several months of her recovery...