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PRO/EDR> Vaping-related illness – North America (05): Canada, flavoring, lung disease

Pneumonia -- CanadaA Canadian teenager developed a life-threatening condition known as "popcorn lung" after several months of intense vaping, in the 1st medical case linking this chronic lung disease to e-cigarette use.Popcorn lung, or popcorn worker's lung, is so-called because the condition was 1st documented in 2000 among microwave-popcorn factory workers who were exposed to the flavouring chemical diacetyl. The disease, more formally known as bronchiolitis obliterans, has also been documented Read more [...]