Teenager dies from lung cancer caused by e-cigs...

angelcop

What do you think of this?

"TEXAS — Frank Delio, a 17-year-old Texas teen boy, became the first person to die of lung cancer associated with the use of E-cigarette smoking in the U.S. yet on Wednesday afternoon."

timesnewz24.com/news/40-e-cigarette-kills-first-victim-after-teen-boy-dies-from-lung-cancer.html

Apparently he was using ecigs for 11 months, and never actually smoked tobacco before.

Perhaps he had lung cancer before he started vapping? Who knows.

RIchieNouveau

"Search Google for this image" shows that it's taken from a Syrian news story. The article doesn't appear anywhere else other than as a copy and paste job.

Hoax.

DirtyBollox

Link to story?

This is going to be blown out of proportion by a massive amount by everyone.

RIchieNouveau

The link isn't clickable for some reason but you can copy and paste it from Angels post. I would say don't worry, it's too obviously a hoax to go anywhere but we are the Facebook generation so brace yourselves

angelcop

Just had another look at the website. It's pretty crappy actually. So yeah I guess it's fake.

DirtyBollox

I just saw it now. Nice to see everyone in the comments debunking it completely!

RnR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8&feature=youtu.be

t0mm13b

Lung cancer from vaping and blowing water vapour literally...

Like, c'mon, that's attention grabbing headline, will be blown epically out of proportions, mountain out of molehills etc

Vaping out...

*blows steam o'shaped clouds from vaping*

the_syco

angelcop wrote: »

What do you think of this?

"TEXAS — Frank Delio, a 17-year-old Texas teen boy, became the first person to die of lung cancer associated with the use of E-cigarette smoking in the U.S. yet on Wednesday afternoon."

timesnewz24.com/news/40-e-cigarette-kills-first-victim-after-teen-boy-dies-from-lung-cancer.html

The correct title for that picture is " Critical: A woman cries as her son, who was injured in clashes in Homs, lies in a hospital bed", as it happened in 2011 when "Syrian security forces 'fire nail bombs' at unarmed protesters"

jonski

the_syco wrote: »

The correct title for that picture is " Critical: A woman cries as her son, who was injured in clashes in Homs, lies in a hospital bed", as it happened in 2011 when "Syrian security forces 'fire nail bombs' at unarmed protesters"

I knew someone would find that picture eventually , just a matter of time and better skills than I have , well done syco .

Full link :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080309/Syria-Security-forces-nail-bombs-protesters-500k-streets.html

DirtyBollox

did a bit more digging

Site was registered and set up on 17th Feb 2015

Expires On February 17, 2016
Registered On February 17, 2015
Updated On February 17, 2015

No mention of who it is registered to. Blatant anti-ecig. Who would be that desperate to spread lies?

the_syco

DirtyBollox wrote: »

Who would be that desperate to spread lies?

World Health Organisation?

noelyf

Big Pharma.......Tobacco Company.......an Irish Senator maybe! : )