This adolescent received a “shock” diagnosis after vaping the equivalent of fifty cigarettes each day. In an attempt to “fit in,”
Jayden Richardson developed the habit when he was twelve, but by the time he was seventeen, his health had suffered.
When the Shropshire boy began coughing up blood on the last day of his August family vacation in Turkey, he hurried to the hospital after his flight return.
I had some chest ache the previous evening, but I didn’t give it much thought. I took a brief vape when I woke up the next morning, and it seemed like I had a little chesty cough, the teenager added.
Jayden said that while he was coughing up “little bits of blood,” the coughing “wasn’t really bad at all.” However, he added, “I had a few drinks and stuff and got into the swimming pool.
