Teen vaping crisis: UK teen's lung collapse sparks urgent warning
17-year-old Kyla Blight from the United Kingdom, who smoked 57 cigarettes a day, nearly had a heart attack after one of her lungs collapsed. Her family experienced true horror.
9:48 AM EDT, June 11, 2024
On Saturday, May 11, in the early hours of the morning, Mark Blight received a phone call informing him that his 17-year-old daughter Kyla had collapsed and turned blue during a sleepover at a friend's house.
Mark took her to the hospital, where she underwent a five-and-a-half-hour surgery to remove part of her lung, having been close to cardiac arrest.
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As highlighted by manchestereveningnews.co.uk, Kyla spent another two weeks in the hospital before she could return home. After a brief investigation, it was revealed that she had started using electronic cigarettes at the age of 15, which quickly turned into an addiction.
The 17-year-old was smoking the equivalent of 400 regular cigarettes per week, which amounts to 57 cigarettes per day.
Mark revealed that although he caught his daughter vaping once, he did not realize she had started at the age of 15 and underestimated the extent to which she was doing it. The 61-year-old admitted that he had smoked for 13 years, but now, after seeing the dangers firsthand, he urges young people to stop.
I would tell parents that by not paying attention to what their child is doing, they will go through what I went through. It's just not worth it. Kids don't understand until it happens to them - said the father of the teenager on social media.
