I am not sure if this has been shared, or how to share. This is my attempt:
Facebook E-Cigarette Death Report : snopes.com
Facebook E-Cigarette Death Report : snopes.com
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Snopes investigation of FB post claim
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This got posted to my wall today and I thought it looked fishy. Thanks for posting this. I posted the link to Snopes in response.
My thoughts too! I was wondering how to respond to the story. My cousin posted it on my FB today because he was worried about me. I Googled the name of the person, who appears to be a woman, and from what I saw on an obituary, the name belongs to a man. Makes me wonder if the FB account is real.
What bothers me is it was shared 47000+ times, this is just too easy a way for a twisted ANTZ to get a lie out there. If only 4 people see that many shares it will be ~200,000 people that now think that e-cigarettes can cause lipoid pneumonia and will be warning users and smokers of that "fact".
Why is it that "tripe" like this gets 47,000 views and a petition to the president of the USA to reject the deeming regulations only gets a little under 18,000 signatures after a week?
So true!What bothers me is it was shared 47000+ times, this is just too easy a way for a twisted ANTZ to get a lie out there. If only 4 people see that many shares it will be ~200,000 people that now think that e-cigarettes can cause lipoid pneumonia and will be warning users and smokers of that "fact".
Here is some more info for you. 
First death from vaping, or publicity stunt? The latter. | E-Cigarette Forum
First death from vaping, or publicity stunt? The latter. | E-Cigarette Forum
Well it's up to ~84,000 shares now, wonder how long it will be before it's "common knowledge". i was digging thru the reddit post linked in the post in new users and it turns out the Snopes article author is a vaper who is seriously digging into this.
More fun, the facebook poster lists Specialties: Fundraising for American Cancer Society in her Linkedin profile, do to ACS propaganda she would have at least been receptive to any bad rumor about e-cigarettes.
Arddy Farrell | LinkedIn
Arddy Farrell | LinkedIn
Well it's up to ~84,000 shares now, wonder how long it will be before it's "common knowledge". i was digging thru the reddit post linked in the post in new users and it turns out the Snopes article author is a vaper who is seriously digging into this.
I posted in that reddit thread a lot yesterday. One thing I find interesting is that the woman who made the FB post has not responded to a single inquiry about the case, even though tons of people have messaged her about it. It's becoming clear to me that she is just a troll or someone with an ulterior motive. She is supposedly a fund raiser for the American Cancer Society, so it's possible she is working as a disinformation agent for ANTZ. Or maybe she is just a sicko who likes to make up stories about dead friends for some unknown reason.
EDIT: She was also a Major in the United States Marine Corps. Yikes!
After the end of the snopes article they show how many views it's gotten. Over 13,000 yesterday, the day it was posted, and right now it says, "(Visited 37,426 times, 12,110 visits today)". Hopefully posts about the snopes article are getting a lot of shares.
I'd would've suspected something similar had she not said in her facebook post that the woman was her neighbor, and that she had just returned from her memorial service. Still, what you've said could very well be the case. Also, American Cancer Society propaganda likely is playing a role in so many people believing the story.
lookey there, all it takes is ONE facebook post and look at the stir up you can cause...they say we live in a world of information, but yet nearly everyone that uses it seems to be a dumb ... with it...
The amount of information you have at hand does not magically change your IQ in any way.
In fact, it probably makes smart people smarter, and dumb people dumber.
Didn't hear about this one. The evidence was enough to give my friends a fair warning about the ACS's online fundraising event Their CEO is probably trying to be noble and do more with less people this year, all the while trying to get that big pay raise in December.
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