The story of an outcast British teenager who underwent a lung resection while smoking 4,000 liquid e-cigarettes.

The story of an outcast British teenager who underwent a lung resection while smoking 4,000 liquid e-cigarettes a week has been revealed.

According to British media The Sun, on the 10th (local time), 17-year-old Kayla Blight from Egremont, England, smoked 4,000 liquid e-cigarettes (400 cigarettes per year) per week to remove part of her lungs. In other words, they smoked more than 570 e-cigarettes per day.

Liquid e-cigarettes contain nicotine, the sale of e-cigarettes to minors is legally prohibited in Europe. However, it is distributed to teenagers through online shopping malls, which are difficult for authorities to control.

Kayla reportedly started smoking liquid e-cigarettes when she was 15 years old.

Kayla was smoking e-cigarettes as usual when her face turned blue and collapsed in May, and she was on the verge of a heart attack.

Then he underwent surgery to remove part of the lungs for 5 hours and 30 minutes due to lung blisters caused by liquid e-cigarettes. Lung blisters are a phenomenon in which adolescents' lung growth rate and blood flow are insufficient, causing blisters at the top of the air lung.

Kayla was released from the hospital two weeks after surgery and is recovering.

“I won’t smoke liquid e-cigarettes anymore,” Kayla said.

It is difficult to say that liquid e-cigarettes are safer than regular tobacco cigarettes. Aerosols (solid or liquid particles floating in the atmosphere) from liquid e-cigarettes contain carcinogenic and toxic substances that cause various diseases, just like regular cigarettes.

Some experts say e-cigarettes may be more harmful than regular cigarettes because they are made of high concentrations of ultrafine particles.

Nicotine in liquid e-cigarettes may have a permanent effect on brain development in people under 25, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Nicotine consumed during adolescence can not only harm the area of ​​the brain that controls attention, learning, mood and impulse control, but also increase the risk of addiction.

Liquid e-cigarettes, like regular cigarettes, cause serious damage to cerebrovascular and peripheral blood vessels.

These acute injuries can cause cardio-cerebrovascular diseases such as strokes, high blood pressure and heart attacks, and increase chronic inflammation that promotes aging.