I do ICU nursing, and I’ve seen a handful of young people (like late teens, early twenties) that we were unable to wean off the ventilator (due to ARDS, which is basically a serious form of respiratory failure). A couple were able to get trached (tracheostomy) and will hopefully be reversible eventually, and several have died. Their only medical history was vaping. They were only ventilated to begin with because of like a serious car crash or something. Broken bones, stabilized, and died of respiratory failure… in a young adult with no history except vaping

I’m still trying to quit smoking cigarettes myself, I’m not trying to be a hypocrite. But in my 10+ years of doing this, I’ve never really seen healthy people go down like that except for during COVID. Maybe they’re correlated, like they vape and have had COVID before, idk. It just kinda surprised me to see that shit. We have better success with cigarette smokers (which I’m absolutely not trying to claim is better, cause fuck all smoking… they get the strokes and heart issues). Just a personal anecdote from someone who works in this field