US identifies likely culprit of vaping illness outbreak | The Malaysian Insight

Vaping is increasingly popular among youth, with a 2019 survey finding that more than five million middle and high school students reported using e-cigarettes in the past 30 days, an all-time high. – EPA pic, November 9, 2019.

US health officials said yesterday they had identified vitamin E acetate as the likely culprit behind a vaping-linked lung injury epidemic that has killed 39 people and sickened more than two thousand. Investigators have previously pointed to the oil, which is sometimes used as a thickening agent for vaping products that contain the psychoactive substance THC, as a possible cause of the outbreak.

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