• MrShankles@reddthat.comEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    I do ICU nursing, and I’ve seen a handful of young people (like late teens, early twenties) that we were unable to wean off the ventilator (due to ARDS, which is basically a serious form of respiratory failure). A couple were able to get trached (tracheostomy) and will hopefully be reversible eventually, and several have died. Their only medical history was vaping. They were only ventilated to begin with because of like a serious car crash or something. Broken bones, stabilized, and died of respiratory failure… in a young adult with no history except vaping

    I’m still trying to quit smoking cigarettes myself, I’m not trying to be a hypocrite. But in my 10+ years of doing this, I’ve never really seen healthy people go down like that except for during COVID. Maybe they’re correlated, like they vape and have had COVID before, idk. It just kinda surprised me to see that shit. We have better success with cigarette smokers (which I’m absolutely not trying to claim is better, cause fuck all smoking… they get the strokes and heart issues). Just a personal anecdote from someone who works in this field

    • can@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      You should really worry about the whole gamut of oral cancers.

      I’m not saying vaping is better or worse, we don’t have the data yet, but cigars and pipes demonstrably affect and damage more than just the throat tissue.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    9 days ago

    Taking a couple of hits off a vape probably won’t do shit. On the other hand, sitting there and puffing a carton’s worth of nicotine over the course of several hours and then doing the same thing everyday will absolutely wreck your lungs.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Not just nicotine, filling your lungs with water vapor continuously is bound to create some problems. There just hasn’t been long enough for those long term issues to show up.