well vaping is the latest hot new trend
among teenagers and doctors want to put
a stop to it in the last several months
the devices are responsible they say for
not only making dozens sick but also
killing three people in our state so
what makes vaping so dangerous in an ABC
total investigation our ampere I took
the devices to a lab to find out what we
found might surprise some users the real
concern is how the device works we do
want to remind you the test that we did
in this lab should not be done at home
how hot is that puff I have no idea can
you give me a guess a degrees degrees
pray about 175 I'm gonna guess I don't
know 60 degrees
212 it's a question that dumbfounded our
community an answer people hadn't
thought about we wanted to know how hot
vaping really is so we called labs
across mid Michigan and Kettering
University stepped up to help this lab
this is our lab that I share with
another professor and this is where we
conduct our research at the chemical
engineering lab inside the University
dr. Marie Gilliam an associate professor
of chemical engineering helped us get to
the bottom of it together with a few of
her students and the lab technician
doctor Gilliam created this contraption
contraption that we have here is
designed to mimic what a puff would be
and we designed it based on a study that
we found we brought in two different
vapes for her team to test a joule
device and a mr. vapor device so how
does the contraption work here dr.
Gilliam is attaching the vape device to
a tube it's connected to a machine that
when turned on will draw out a puff just
like if a person were using the vape
this red tube coming out of the side is
called a thermocouple and as the pump
draws out the vapor it takes the
temperature of that vapor to find out
how hot vaping really is
there we go each time we did the test
our results showed right around a
hundred degrees Fahrenheit that's the
temperature of the vapor as soon as it
hits a person's mouth oh my gosh that's
that's pretty hot to go inside of
someone's mouth ah really
Wow that would surprise me so pretty hot
but it's not the hottest the device can
get doctor Gilliam showed us another
demonstration this time testing how hot
the coil inside the vape device can get
that's she says where the real danger
comes from the coil temperature is hot
enough to a point where it actually
breaks down these chemicals into these
harmful byproducts some of them are
carcinogens some of them have been shown
to cause developmental disorders and so
forth so they are so it's actually the
temperature of that coil that produces
these in this test we watched the coil
temperature quickly climb to 158 degrees
Fahrenheit the temperature of the coil
gets it very hot some studies have shown
it gets upwards of 900 degrees C so why
are some devices hotter than others
doctor Gilliam says the user can
actually control that because some
devices can be altered
[Music]
it's the temperature inside there gets
hotter and a higher concentration of
harmful byproducts have been shown
by products not shown in the liquid
itself doctor Gilliam says it's the heat
of the coil that produces them the lung
is not accustomed to such high
temperatures and there are chemicals are
being heated and so when they touch the
lung tissue that's what burns that and
caused irreversible damage to the lung
tissue dr. John Youssef is a pulmonary
critical care specialist with McLaren
Flint he's alarmed by the immediate
damage vaping has caused I think it is
more dangerous than cigarettes and
that's why right now there is no
recommendation at all to substitute
regular cigarettes with vaping or
electronic cigarettes because of the
immediate dangers we're seeing here in
Michigan the State Health Department
reports 65 confirmed and probable VAP
being related lung injury cases those
hospitalized range in age from 15 to 67
years old
so far three people have been killed we
even saw a 17 year old here in Michigan
forced to undergo a double lung
transplant to live dr. Yusuf is
encouraging all parents to talk to their
kids and first find out if they become
part of the growing trend of vapors and
if so he wants parents to learn these
dangers to help their kids understand
this fad could kill them and it's not a
weak illness this could be for the rest
of their lives that they become
incapacitated and become dependent on
medical treatment and oxygen and things
like that working with the State Health
Department governor Gretchen Whitmer put
a temporary ban on vaping in Michigan
last year calling it a public health
crisis vape shops fought back though and
a court order blocked the governor's ban
as this case continues to play out in
the courts we'll keep you up to date
among teenagers and doctors want to put
a stop to it in the last several months
the devices are responsible they say for
not only making dozens sick but also
killing three people in our state so
what makes vaping so dangerous in an ABC
total investigation our ampere I took
the devices to a lab to find out what we
found might surprise some users the real
concern is how the device works we do
want to remind you the test that we did
in this lab should not be done at home
how hot is that puff I have no idea can
you give me a guess a degrees degrees
pray about 175 I'm gonna guess I don't
know 60 degrees
212 it's a question that dumbfounded our
community an answer people hadn't
thought about we wanted to know how hot
vaping really is so we called labs
across mid Michigan and Kettering
University stepped up to help this lab
this is our lab that I share with
another professor and this is where we
conduct our research at the chemical
engineering lab inside the University
dr. Marie Gilliam an associate professor
of chemical engineering helped us get to
the bottom of it together with a few of
her students and the lab technician
doctor Gilliam created this contraption
contraption that we have here is
designed to mimic what a puff would be
and we designed it based on a study that
we found we brought in two different
vapes for her team to test a joule
device and a mr. vapor device so how
does the contraption work here dr.
Gilliam is attaching the vape device to
a tube it's connected to a machine that
when turned on will draw out a puff just
like if a person were using the vape
this red tube coming out of the side is
called a thermocouple and as the pump
draws out the vapor it takes the
temperature of that vapor to find out
how hot vaping really is
there we go each time we did the test
our results showed right around a
hundred degrees Fahrenheit that's the
temperature of the vapor as soon as it
hits a person's mouth oh my gosh that's
that's pretty hot to go inside of
someone's mouth ah really
Wow that would surprise me so pretty hot
but it's not the hottest the device can
get doctor Gilliam showed us another
demonstration this time testing how hot
the coil inside the vape device can get
that's she says where the real danger
comes from the coil temperature is hot
enough to a point where it actually
breaks down these chemicals into these
harmful byproducts some of them are
carcinogens some of them have been shown
to cause developmental disorders and so
forth so they are so it's actually the
temperature of that coil that produces
these in this test we watched the coil
temperature quickly climb to 158 degrees
Fahrenheit the temperature of the coil
gets it very hot some studies have shown
it gets upwards of 900 degrees C so why
are some devices hotter than others
doctor Gilliam says the user can
actually control that because some
devices can be altered
[Music]
it's the temperature inside there gets
hotter and a higher concentration of
harmful byproducts have been shown
by products not shown in the liquid
itself doctor Gilliam says it's the heat
of the coil that produces them the lung
is not accustomed to such high
temperatures and there are chemicals are
being heated and so when they touch the
lung tissue that's what burns that and
caused irreversible damage to the lung
tissue dr. John Youssef is a pulmonary
critical care specialist with McLaren
Flint he's alarmed by the immediate
damage vaping has caused I think it is
more dangerous than cigarettes and
that's why right now there is no
recommendation at all to substitute
regular cigarettes with vaping or
electronic cigarettes because of the
immediate dangers we're seeing here in
Michigan the State Health Department
reports 65 confirmed and probable VAP
being related lung injury cases those
hospitalized range in age from 15 to 67
years old
so far three people have been killed we
even saw a 17 year old here in Michigan
forced to undergo a double lung
transplant to live dr. Yusuf is
encouraging all parents to talk to their
kids and first find out if they become
part of the growing trend of vapors and
if so he wants parents to learn these
dangers to help their kids understand
this fad could kill them and it's not a
weak illness this could be for the rest
of their lives that they become
incapacitated and become dependent on
medical treatment and oxygen and things
like that working with the State Health
Department governor Gretchen Whitmer put
a temporary ban on vaping in Michigan
last year calling it a public health
crisis vape shops fought back though and
a court order blocked the governor's ban
as this case continues to play out in
the courts we'll keep you up to date
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