I never smoked! A 20-year-old man was pushed into the pit for “smoking e-cigarettes for 1 year”, and his face turned green during a medical check-Life-Zhongshi News Network

The use rate of e-cigarettes among domestic youths has increased rapidly. According to statistics, there are 79,000 high school and vocational students in Taiwan who use e-cigarettes. Su Yifeng, a thoracologist, shared a case today. A 20-year-old young man who was not a smoker was pushed by a friend to start using electronic cigarettes. Unexpectedly, he coughed continuously for one year. According to computer tomography, he found that his lungs were covered with the sky. The star-like lung nodules shocked him.

After a 20-year-old man who did not smoke was pushed by a friend to smoke e-cigarettes for a year, his lungs actually had star-filled lung nodules. (Photo taken from Su Yifeng’s Facebook)

Su Yifeng, the chief physician of the Department of Thoracic Medicine in the Yangming District of the Taipei City United Hospital, said on Facebook today that a 20-year-old young man who did not smoke at first started using electronic cigarettes after being introduced by a friend. After that, he kept coughing. His mother forced him to seek medical attention. Yifeng arranged for him to have a low-dose computed tomography of his lungs. Unexpectedly, after only one year of using e-cigarettes, his lungs turned out to have star-like pulmonary nodules.

Pulmonary nodules refer to lung tumors smaller than 3 cm. If the lungs have suffered from fungal infection, inflammation, tuberculosis, etc. in the past, nodules or fibrotic lesions will appear.

Su Yifeng said that the 20-year-old was shocked when he heard that he had lung nodules, and exclaimed, “Isn’t e-cigarettes harmless? words. Su said the World Health Organization has announced that e-cigarette makers cannot claim to be healthier than cigarettes because research evidence does not support such claims.

According to a survey by the National Health Administration, in 2010, it was estimated that 79,000 teenagers in Taiwan were using e-cigarettes, including 23,000 middle school students and 56,000 high school vocational students. reason. Physician Guo Feiran, executive director of the Taiwan Tobacco Harm Prevention and Smoking Cessation Health Education Association, once pointed out that 1 cc of some electronic cigarette products contains 50 mg of nicotine, which is about the nicotine content of 2 to 3 packs of cigarettes.

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