A woman is fighting for her life after smoking more than a cartridge of e-cigarette liquid every day for seven years.
According to Daily Mail, Amanda Stelzer, 34, started vaping in 2015 due to peer influence, thinking it would be fun. She was quickly hooked on the devices and found herself going through around eight cartridges of vape fluid each week, this is equivalent to 50 cigarettes a day.
Suddenly in October 2019, she went to urgent care after suffering from breathing problems.
Doctors could not figure out what was wrong and sent her to a local hospital. Within the next 24 hours, she was on life support.
Chest scans revealed she was suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome, a deadly condition that occurs when a person’s lungs become so damaged they fail to provide the rest of the body with enough oxygen.
Repeated studies have warned that vaping can cause severe damage to the lungs and heart, similar to smoking standard cigarettes.