"We strongly advocate for Tobacco 21 legislation, we stopped the sale of non-tobacco and non-menthol-based flavored JUULpods to our traditional retail store partners, enhanced our online age-verification process, strengthened our retailer compliance program with over 2,000 secret shopper visits per month and shut down our Facebook and Instagram accounts while working constantly to remove inappropriate social media content generated by others on those platforms. "We share these concerns about youth vaping, which is why we have taken the most aggressive actions of anyone in the industry to combat youth usage," Juul said. Just this week, the FDA sent a warning letter to Juul, the industry leader for vape products, accusing it of illegally marketing its nicotine vape products as safer than traditional cigarettes without proof. “I went in and I was like, ‘Can I get a pack of Juul pods?’ And they were like, ‘How old are you?’ And I said, ‘22,’ and they were just like, ‘OK,’” Simah Herman said. Simah Herman said she first started vaping at age 15, and that she’d buy the cartridges from a smoke shop despite being a minor. Among high school students, there was a 78% increase in e-cigarette use between 20, according to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) National Youth Tobacco Survey. Melomed is one of countless health officials who fear that vaping-related illnesses are an emerging crisis. Just last month, 17-year-old Trystan Zohfeld spent 18 days in the hospital after suffering from a vaping-related illness, during which he said he was “throwing up everywhere.” On Monday night, a Texas high schooler was also rushed to the hospital after vaping. (MORE: Vaping linked to breathing problems in several states ) “My best guess since we’re still learning about what is really going on in the lungs is profound inflammatory reaction to the vape products or ponent of the vape products,” Melamed told ABC News' Adrienne Bankert for "Nightline." Less than 48 hours later, chest X-rays showed that her lungs were filled with white - they were inflamed and full of fluid, Melamed said. Kathryn Melamed, said could potentially be pneumonia. 15, a chest X-ray showed white hazy areas at the bottom of her lungs, which her pulmonologist, Dr. The doctors looking after Herman at Los Angeles’ Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center were also stumped. Like, I literally just wanted to crawl out of my skin.” Like I just couldn't do anything,” Herman, 18, said. “I just remember feeling like absolute.nothing. Though she might not look like it today, Simah Herman said she was sure she was going to die last month as she sat in the car unable to breathe, her father racing her to the hospital.
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