She vaped an equivalent of 400 cigarettes a week.

A 17-year-old girl named Kyla Blythe from the UK had a near-death experience after she collapsed due to incessant Vaping and was rushed to the hospital feeling a hole burst in her lungs. She had almost vaped the equivalent of 400 cigarettes in a week or roughly about 57 cigarettes a day. This incident befell on May 11 when the girl swooned that her entire body turned blue during a sleepover at a friend’s abode.

While she was vaping, she felt something like a blister burst inside her body on the lung part, known as a pulmonary bleb. Kyla then underwent surgery that took nearly 6 hours to complete and removed her lungs’ infected area.

Her father Mark Blythe said, “It was terrifying for me, I’ve cried like a baby, it was indeed horrible to watch. I was there with her the whole time. It did threaten her life because she was so close to having a cardiac arrest on that day.”

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Kyla was a constant vaper as she started vaping at the age of 15 after seeing her pals doing it regularly. She has been inhaling an entire 4,000 puff vaper each week. After this terrific incident, she stated that she never goes near them or uses them again. “I honestly thought they were harmless and wouldn’t do anything, but now I won’t touch them, we went in there thinking we were only going to be in there for a few hours but spent almost two weeks having surgeries and all this” she said.

Her father has also warned other young people to “throw away vapes because it is harmful as same as cigarettes.” According to a recent study by  Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the popularity of vapes is increasing fast among children and has doubled to 20% in 2023.

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