{"id":9218,"date":"2019-09-11T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9218"},"modified":"2019-09-11T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T08:34:59","slug":"it-is-time-to-stop-vaping-6th-us-death-linked-to-lung-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9218","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It is time to stop vaping&#8217;: 6th US death linked to lung illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman of the state of Kansas was the sixth person to die in the United States \u00a0of a mysterious respiratory illness related to vaping, state authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas State Health Officer Lee Norman said &#8220;If you or a loved one is vaping, please stop&#8221;, as public health officials scrambled to understand what has quickly become a nationwide problem.<\/p>\n<p>The US government is probing 450 cases of\u00a0 vaping related illness \u00a0across 33 states and one US territory.<\/p>\n<p>But the nationwide investigation led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not yet linked the illnesses to any specific e-cigarette product.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the reported illnesses involved vaping devices &#8211; including cannabis products &#8211; that contain vitamin E acetate, an oil derived from vitamin E that can be dangerous if inhaled.<\/p>\n<p>The vaping industry has blamed the surge in the contagion on black market products, but health officials have yet to rule out any vaping devices &#8211; legal or illegal &#8211; as a potential cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman of the state of Kansas was the sixth person to die in the United States \u00a0of a mysterious respiratory illness related to vaping, state authorities said. Kansas State Health Officer Lee Norman said &#8220;If you or a loved one is vaping, please stop&#8221;, as public health officials scrambled to understand what has quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9238,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9218\/revisions\/9238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}