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NEVER Start Vaping, Says 12-Year-Old Girl With Lung Damage

A 12-year-old girl who suffered a lung collapse and spent four days in an induced coma has told the BBC that children should never start vaping.

BBC 12 OCT 2023

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Sarah, who has asthma, became seriously ill and doctors said her vaping habit was a factor in her condition

Sarah Griffin had asthma and was a heavy vaper when she was rushed to hospital with breathing problems a month ago.

Her mum Mary told the BBC she feared she was going to lose her daughter.

The UK government has announced plans to restrict the marketing and sale of vapes targeted at children.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the proposals - which are open for public consultation for the next eight weeks - would "reverse the worrying rise in youth vaping" by making vapes less colourful and less appealing to children.

Speaking at the Labour Party conference, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said a Labour government would come down like "tonne of bricks" on vaping companies pushing flavours like 'rainbow burst' at children.

Sarah Griffin's bedroom at her home in Belfast is like that of most 12-year-old girls - a dressing table littered with make-up, perfume bottles and hair straighteners, with some childhood cuddly toys on the bed.

But this is where Sarah also used to hide her vapes from her mum - even cutting holes in the carpet to keep them out of sight.

Sarah had started vaping when she was just nine.

Her mum Mary tried to stop her - searching her when she came home, confiscating her phone - but nothing worked.

By the summer, Sarah was getting through a 4,000-puff vape (a regulation vape contains 600 puffs) in just a few days.

It was the first thing she did in the morning and the last thing she did at night - sleeping with the vape on her pillow.

Even though it's illegal to sell vapes to anyone under the age of 18, Sarah bought vapes over the counter and became addicted to the nicotine hit.

Sarah's asthma and the fact she was not good at using her preventative inhaler left her at risk of complications.

In early September she also developed a head cold, and when combined with her vaping, it all added up to what Sarah's doctor describes as a "perfect storm".

"A lot of risk factors were going in the wrong direction," says Dr Dara O'Donoghue, consultant respiratory paediatrician at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.

Sarah became unwell and was taken to hospital, where an X-ray of her lungs showed only one was working properly - and she was not responding to treatment.

Within a few hours she was in intensive care - and shortly after that was put into an induced coma, in the hope that her condition would stabilise.

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