Minnesota School Nurse Says Vaping Is 'Skyrocketing' Among Students
The Centers for Disease Control's youth tobacco survey shows more than one in four teens are using e-cigarettes.
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The Centers for Disease Control's youth tobacco survey shows more than one in four teens are using e-cigarettes.
Since mid-August, six people in the United States have died from a lung disease likely related to vaping, including one in Minnesota.
There are new calls to ban e-cigarette flavors amid the growing vaping mystery -- but the apparent risk from vaping hasn't proven strong enough to get many young users to quit.
A Wisconsin operation that manufactured thousands of vaping cartridges a day may have been packing them with far more THC oil than the packaging claimed, authorities said Wednesday.
The Minnesota Department of Health says there are 25 confirmed cases of vaping that lead to hospitalization and 12 other cases that are under review.
Instead of starting his senior year at Augsburg University, 21 year old Elijah McClure is in the ICU at North Memorial Hospital battling an acute lung disease that may be linked to vaping nicotine.
The Minnesota Department of Health is continuing to investigate the vaping-related death of a Minnesotan.
The CDC has reported at least four deaths linked to vaping and around 450 cases of lung damage or illness nationwide.
Investigators said that the lung injury was associated with vaping illicit THC products.
Twenty-seven cases of severe lung injury due to vaping in Minnesota are being investigated by the Minnesota Department of Health.
Health officials in Illinois are confirming what could be the first death related to vaping in the United States.
More cases of lung disease are popping up across the country, possibly connected to vaping.
Wisconsin health officials on Thursday said they've seen 15 confirmed cases, with another 15 illnesses under investigation. New York state officials are investigating 10, Illinois has seen at least six, and Minnesota doctors this week said they have four more.
Vaping might seem a popular thing to do, but it's sending kids to the hospital.
Experts worry that e-cigarettes could put kids' developing brains at risk, get them hooked on nicotine early in life, and be a gateway to smoking and other drugs.
The bill would restrict the use of e-cigarettes wherever tobacco smoking is already banned.
WCCO visited a Twin Cities lab where curious parents are using test results to snuff out an alarming epidemic.
A school-based survey shows nearly 1 in 11 U.S. students have used marijuana in electronic cigarettes, heightening concern about the new popularity of vaping among teens.
A teen in Pennsylvania had to be placed on a breathing machine after doctors say she developed "wet lung" from vaping.
Lawmakers are set to reignite conversations this week about whether vaping — using electronic cigarettes and other vapor smoking devices — should be included in Wisconsin's smoking ban.
Using certain electronic cigarettes at high temperature settings could potentially release more formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical, than smoking traditional cigarettes does, new lab tests suggest. The research does not prove a health risk — it involved limited testing on just one brand of e-cigarettes and was done in test tubes, not people. It also does not mean e-cigarettes are better or worse than regular ones; tobacco smoke contains dozens of things that can cause cancer.
