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🗓️ 9 September 2019
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0:00.0 | So you beautiful bastards, hope you have a fantastic Monday. |
0:03.0 | Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show, and let's just jump into it. |
0:06.0 | The first thing we're going to talk about today is vaping and e-cigarettes. |
0:09.0 | So over the last few months, health officials say they've been seeing a string of lung-related illnesses. |
0:13.0 | Back in April, health departments in Illinois and Wisconsin followed 53 patients who had vaped, |
0:17.0 | and a third of those people reportedly ended up on respirators. Last month, you had the Washington Post report that within days, one man had gone from being |
0:23.8 | a 20-year-old hiking enthusiast to being kept alive by two machines forcing air into and out |
0:28.5 | of his lungs and oxygenating his blood outside of his body. Around the same time, the Centers for |
0:32.5 | Disease Control and Prevention was reportedly investigating almost 200 cases and all of that |
0:36.7 | led up to the first reported death from a vaping related illness. |
0:39.3 | Which happened a few weeks ago in Illinois and then this past Wednesday health officials released a statement saying that they were investigating the death of another person in Oregon. |
0:46.3 | Then this past Thursday the New York Department of Health said that it was reporting 34 cases of severe pulmonary illnesses. |
0:52.3 | And those cases are notable because investigators believe that they may be specifically linked to cannabis vaping |
0:56.6 | products which all the people in the cases said that they used. Though of note |
1:00.2 | some said that they had used other types of vaping products as well and |
1:03.2 | here's the thing. A lot of people might naturally assume that it's the cannabis |
1:05.9 | that's causing these illnesses. But health officials actually believe that it is |
1:08.6 | another ingredient typically packed in cannabis vap products. Specifically, oil derived from vitamin E, which you can find that oil in things like |
1:15.6 | almonds and canola oil, which, before you get worried, it is safe to eat. It is also safe to use |
1:20.6 | on the skin and creams. But the issue here is that health officials worry that breathing it in may be harmful. |
1:24.6 | Right. And so what you have is an oil, it gets heated up, it turns into a vapor, you breathe it in. And it's believed that because it's an oil, |
1:30.3 | it's then going to return to a liquid state in your lungs once it cools down, which then |
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