first death from e-cigs!??

[jdm1982]

so i was on my facebook tonight, and a friend of mine shared this link:






Just returned from our neighbors memorial service. She died of suffocation, the oil from the vapor ciggaretts coated the folliculs in her lungs. The Dr's at Mayo could not remove the oil. She was only 67. Beware of vapor and E-ciggaretts.


it currently has over 1500 shares. my bs alarm is sounding hard, but not knowing the authour of it i didn't feel right msging her to get into particulars.


what do you guys think? more propaganda by the uneducated? or a legit case of e-cigs killing a person?

 

[yuseffuhler]

so i was on my facebook tonight, and a friend of mine shared this link:






Just returned from our neighbors memorial service. She died of suffocation, the oil from the vapor ciggaretts coated the folliculs in her lungs. The Dr's at Mayo could not remove the oil. She was only 67. Beware of vapor and E-ciggaretts.


it currently has over 1500 shares. my bs alarm is sounding hard, but not knowing the authour of it i didn't feel right msging her to get into particulars.


what do you guys think? more propaganda by the uneducated? or a legit case of e-cigs killing a person?

Almost no information there. Unsubstantiated claims. I'd say break the link, then see if anything ever comes from it. I highly doubt it.

 

[mcol]

Please edit your post and break the link or the mods probably will.
First thought is we don't vape oil, she was probably doing something else.
Maybe the poster just got confused, or the doctors, or she wants attention
or something. This would have been all over the news if true.

 

[jdm1982]

yeah im with you folks.ill delete it now

 

[jdm1982]

coulda been smoking 4 packs a day for 30 years and vaped a week then its ecigs yo'.i knew it'

 

[yuseffuhler]

yeah im with you folks.ill delete it now

You don't have to delete the post, just edit out the link so it's broken. Just put a space in there so it doesn't work when clicked on

 

[Rocketpunk]

Not to be a grammar natzi, but from the misspelled words in the OP's quote of the person in question, I doubt they have the faculties necessary to comprehend the workings of e-cigarettes.

 

[alicewonderland]

i call bs. i duno wtf she was vaping to cover lungs in oil but what we vape doesnt do that. Could be the doctor misdiagnosing it and pointing fingers at vaping instead of misuse or negligence. If it was true that 'vaping' caused this oil covering in the lungs and killed people, there would have been many more cases.

 

[vincom]

never heard of death by oily lungs .
if true then deep fryer cooks are a dying breed, rip.

 

[dbrandt01]

Giving the doctor shows I watch and seeing doctors in hospitals when I take my dad for his yearly checkups. I'd say most doctors I see are lazy and quick to point the finger at something without researching it. It wasn't a hard post to find on Facebook, I call BS on it as well. Plus you'd think an older person could spell cigarettes. I think one of the replies she did "Her lungs were clear otherwise". It sounds like a clueless doctor and a clueless poster on Facebook that is posting hearsay. Plus being 67 never know, she could've been smoking 40+ years and that could've been the problem. We know doctors aren't quick to blame real cigarettes, but vaping oh no, it's terrible in their mind.

Thinking I may screenshot it and block out her name to share to people at places such as "Not blowing smoke" and the like.

Wow... Just noticed a quote in the second post had the link still that would've saved a couple minutes haha

 

[Rabbit Slayer]

BS story is BS...nothing more to say

 

[Lessifer]

I've messaged the woman on facebook, being polite, and simply asking for the name so we can substantiate this and share this disturbing news with the e-cig community. I'm not one of her fb friends though, so who knows if she'll even read my message.

It would be incredibly odd that the first we would hear of this is on facebook, at least a few days later, since this was supposedly after the memorial.

 

[DJBoomBap]

Not to be a grammar Nazi

Fixed.......sorry.

 

[sc12]

A moderator may be needed in here to break the link where it was quoted.

 

[letmein]

Maybe email the hospital and hear if there has been a death related to oil from e-cigs?

 

[Racehorse]

so i was on my facebook tonight, and a friend of mine shared this link:






Just returned from our neighbors memorial service. She died of suffocation, the oil from the vapor ciggaretts coated the folliculs in her lungs. The Dr's at Mayo could not remove the oil. She was only 67. Beware of vapor and E-ciggaretts.


it currently has over 1500 shares. my bs alarm is sounding hard, but not knowing the authour of it i didn't feel right msging her to get into particulars.


what do you guys think? more propaganda by the uneducated? or a legit case of e-cigs killing a person?

first of all the person is barely literate and can't spell at the 3rd grade level. Sorry, just had to say that.

Second of all, "vapor cigs" don't have oil.

The only way she could have severely damaged her lungs is if she WAS vaping straight oils.....and I don't know anybody who would actually do that, unless they really had no idea what they were doing, never bought actual ejuice from a vendor, or was making some kind of weird oil concoction in their kitchen.

 

[Ryedan]

No reputable juice has oil in it. No one that I know of has died from oil in juice for the three + years I've been a member of ECF.

We have no real information about this incident other than what was in that Facebook post and that information has zero credibility with me right now. Let's wait for the facts to come in before we jump to conclusions.

 

[Katya]

Almost no information there. Unsubstantiated claims. I'd say break the link, then see if anything ever comes from it. I highly doubt it.

Please break the link in the quoted post...

Total rubbish. Oil and folliculs...

ETA: There are no oils (or there shouldn't be any) in commercial, good quality vjuices. So unless she made her own juice and used oils for flavoring or bought from some unscrupulous and uneducated juice maker who used oils, I don't see how she could have gotten "oil" in her lungs...

 

[Katya]

A moderator may be needed in here to break the link where it was quoted.

I asked a mod for help.

 

[Katya]

never heard of death by oily lungs .
if true then deep fryer cooks are a dying breed, rip.

There was one claim that I know of that vaping caused lipoid pneumonia (in Spain)--here's Dr. Farsalinos's response

Doctors, open your textbooks: glycerol CANNOT cause lipoid pneumonia (but other things can)

Having said that, vaping oils (or any vliquids containing oil-based, non-water-soluble flavorings) is not advisable and may cause lipoid pneumonia, per Dr. F.