Vape influencers say they’re the real victims of vaping illness crisis
By Suzy Weiss, New York Post
(Oct. 15, 2019 19:37 p.m.) — Tobacco companies aren’t the only ones profiting from the dangerous vaping trend.
When vaping illness struck America this summer, it brought e-cigarette culture — once a niche trend among the Instagram generation — into the spotlight. The mysterious sickness, now formally called EVALI (short for e-cigarette or vaping-product use associated lung injury) and suspected to be caused by bad additives in black-market THC vapes, has claimed at least 26 lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least 1,299 cases of the disease have been reported in 49 states. In response to the crisis, the FDA announced plans to ban flavored e-cigarettes because of their effect on public health, with local governments already enacting such legislation.
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