From the New York Times. Unlike about all this today, John Stephan died. His family had little doubt that online time of cigarette smoking was to blame. The Nebraska Department of I got an unusual Tipp part, one of a two part series on the promise and the peril of vapor. It's one October. Twenty. You will see the animals on the wall, so there is that there is a rainbow trout and I love the idea above the fireplace. Do you tell me about this tribute to Nebraska

He was so a couple of weeks ago, I went to Omaha Nebraska Julie. Bosman is a national reporter at times, and I went to the home of Kathleen SIMPLE. You guys can see where she lives with her dog bow Carriers and Kathleen showed me around to house about rooms a mess, but we could pull some and I sat down with Kathleen and her daughter, Dulcea and her grand daughter, and they showed me something that I see it made after the death of her father, John Stephan. My daughter made this. It was a glass box or that's what we use. And inside or mementoes that represented his life, he play guitar promise featherbed was assigned me I'd like to send their John was very active doors man. There is turkey feather from one

hunting expeditions, there's a shotgun shoulders, the apple or this knife hasn't they were badges and pins. Scab leader and there were dried flowers from his funeral sprang from the casket spray, and how exactly did he died so John I'd, after a long illness, he was a lifelong smoke. Thirty smoke marlboros inoculate the Oda, so he started smoking

back in the sixties when he was a teenager and it was a habit tat he really stuck with for most of his life. How did you feel about his smoking with you, like? I hate this or and love it, and I don't want to quit or have I love it? I dont want to quit and also a lot of denial, especially early early on my grandpa lived to be something and he smoked, so he was kind of clinging to the idea that smoking wasn't bad. Eventually, I think he reconciled that. Yes, smoking was at hand, it could cause cancer. He tried very very hard to quit. As thirty swell ever. First marriage. He quit several times brief. What sometimes he would be successful and then he started up again where stop here a month or two and his daughter

when she had her own baby daughter, she would take little pictures of the baby and like took them into his packs of cigarettes so that he could see her face. Everytime you pulled out cigarette like tried all the little tactics, so she took and everything she could by his addiction to nicotine was in decades strong. But then he developed Seo PD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is a very common disease, many smokers develop and in his case it gave him a very bad cough and made it difficult to breathe. At times we built a surgeon, sing a wine and then they start Let me have to pick it up later because he have to catch his breath in between used to whistle all the time you couldn't listen anymore. He had a field trip,

Sharon and some time later he got non Hodgkin's lymphoma and had to have chemotherapy for years. I think that was when he started raping. Do you know how he got the idea now we we'd both I kind of advertising for things, but it was his idea he bought. One came on whether so John started babying about five years ago, to know which brand mystics, blue and money once and the only went to jewel of less than a year ago- and he had heard about raping as the cleaner, healthier alternative to cigarettes, so he became just as enthusiastic of a vapor as he was a smoker, so early

this year was caught cold going around. It was a cold winter and everybody had a cold and coughed and John for Colonel got at the worst and it Probably in some ways was less obvious to us because he had a smaller scarf, so he coughed. But it was also obvious that this was worse and his daughter Dulcea started nagging at him and saying dad. You really need to go to the doktor. That's that's probably way whether one April portion of yeah, so he did, and and he was diagnosed with Pneumonia Doktor Simon said you have pneumonia you're going to the hospital and he was in the hospital for a week and seven eight days into his hospital stay. His hands were like ice

certainly turn blue is a beacon of blank and his mouth was prompt open and he wasn't breathing very often, and his last breath tell because there was just a slight twitched in his neck. He died of acute respiratory failure, which the doktor said was a consequence of the ceo pity to essentially he died of smoking or smoking related lung disease. It sounds like you guess. His wife said that he always believed that he was going to die of lung cancer. So,

when the doktor said that he had died, essentially as a consequence of seo PD. They had no reason to question the doctors conclusion and its tragic, as that is at all kind of lines up with our understanding of what a lifetime of smoking does to a person right. But then, four months after John died, Kathleen was sitting at work. One day I was in a meeting when the Department of Health called she got a phone call from an investigator at the Nebraska Department of Health, and he asked her all kinds of questions. He asked about any exposure in the past to moulding word or woodchips to asbestos to pesticides. Then they asked about symptoms. He ass. If he had

had any kind of vanity. Even before his death did, he lose weight. Was he coughing and he also asked her about bathing. I said I don't know my baby, I mean yes, he bathed, but I dont think. Maybe they said he had Dimona lifelong smoker c, o p d and the investigator got off the phone with her and said he would be in touch so dearly. What was Johns relationship to be being Kathleen told me that when he was smoking cigarettes, he would smoke a cigarette two or three times in our and very quickly. He was waiting two or three times in our. It was a strange replacement

Firstly, the rats yeah yeah yeah, I heard of it- was habit. You know, years and years of habit when you get in the vehicle. You light up a cigarette. So when he did in the vehicle and start to drive, he would faith. It was a good way to help him get his nicotine fix. I knew it wasn't the perfect solution, but again figured it was better for him and for us, did you ever think like? Could they be dangerous? We now I know when they first Martha.

They said it was a safer alternative. We assume that was healthier for those around him as well, and then, a few days later, Kathleen spoke to the medical investigator again and he told her that it had been confirmed. John was Nebraska First official gaping related death this morning, Nebraska how the visuals them announced the states first bathing related dad. That's where the person was over sixty five and from the Douglas County, which is the Omaha area the individual died in may put the state held the foreman just identified it as raping related Thirdly, what exactly is going on here? Why is an original conclusion about Johns cause of death? Now being we evaluated and it seems challenge on what is happening?

so back in May. When John died, there really was no such thing as a gaping related deaths or of aping related illnesses, but throughout the summer all these illnesses and deaths began to be reported. And all over the country people began to look back at cases of people who had died, people who had gotten SEC and started to think a little differently about them and in Nebraska State Health Department wouldn't have even looked at Johns death if they haven't received a tip we'll be right, back thinks we're going to work and thanks for staying home for treating patients and having patience for being on the front lines while having our backs

for working together and playing the music? You love you S, bank, can't thank you enough, but we can do our part. That's why we ve donated millions to help our customers, employees and communities in need equal housing lender member after I see, should really tell me about this stuff. So here's what happened? John had an old friend.

Who he went to high school with, and they saw each other at an alarm Niver Union a few years ago. They sat together with their spouses. At this dinner and throughout the dinner ass she described it. John was they being constantly and she had never seen anyone vapor before this was in twenty four team. It was kind of a new thing and she told me that she was very alarmed by what she saw. Who is actually a longer. She was concerned because he was made,

so frequently. Of course, when you smoke, you generally have to go outside and do it by John was they being indoors sitting at dinner, and she also just had this kind of good sense that there were something of wrong about it and she couldn t quite shake the feeling, even after the reunion as over and years had gone by, and she and John really didn't keep in touch. But earlier this year, when John was sick, she had heard that he was in the hospital and then she heard that He died in May so she waited all summer and she started

things in the news about people getting second dine from being. There is breaking news tonight in the nation wide vapor crisis, another death and new reports of possible lung disease. The CDC is looking into dozens of pay. The cdc can confirm thirty one cases you a hundred potential three hundred and eighty two hundred fifty cases. I am hundred and thirty cases its unclear just what's causing the problem. The CDC says it will continue to investigate and she told me that she kept looking in the paper she kept. Looking on the news to see, if John was one of those people- and they never happened so at the end of the summer, she decided that she just couldn't get rid of this feeling that raping was related to his death. So she called the State Health Department, for she was the Dep yes, so her Tipp gets pass along to a medical investigator

he was the investigator who called Johns wife and spoke to her and interviewed her about his medical history. He did a bunch of other things too, so he spoke to the physicians who attended to John who treated him when he was sick in the hospital in Omaha. He examined his medical records. He looked at his chest x rays. It showed it pneumonia and the lower lobe of one long, but the rest of his lungs, both sides and upper and lower were filled with what they call ground. Glass, open, ground, glass, appearance on the lungs is an injury to the long that is typically consistent with babies and in some cases it can look like their opaque white spots.

Son, the x ray, I said well, how does that is that different from just the one from smaller, and he said yes, this is not what you would see in just routine if you will want to smoke- and in this case it was a very key piece of evidence for the investigator, who is looking into John Staff and what's the understanding of how they being my created, this kind of ground glass looking damage in along? So when you re, of course, you use it base that heats liquid to a very high temperature and turns it into a vapor that you inhale. Now that liquid can contain teach sea which is sadly

ingredient in marijuana. That gets you high or it could contain nicotine and doctors who are investigating all these illnesses in deaths. Dont know exactly what it is about gaping, that is making people sick, but they have noticed that some of the people who have gotten sick or died, have had the ground glass appearance on their lungs or in some cases they ve had damage on their lungs that resembles a chemical burn me doing my sense is that most of these raping really it promises and the deaths that we have been reading about have been. And not from the well known a cigarette brands, but from basically counterfeit and bootleg products right Yes, so here's what we know about that of the people who have gotten sick or died from bathing in the last year about three quarters of them have vapor teach seal products

a little over. Half have apes. Nicotine and a lot of people do both kind of toggle back and forth between vapour, reed and they being nicotine, but as best we can tell John did not vapor teach see when. I asked his family. They laughed at the idea that there are sixty eight year old, husband and father would be procuring. Bootleg th see is that unthinkable doom and he is at the moment he might have possible time. He wouldn't even know where to go together We, then the Colorado sends legalised and he wanted. He is never in the rest of you, so I don't think I've ever considered getting a black market either they described his gaping habits as very above board. Do you know where he bought a woman,

The greens are Walmart rings around. I dont think you by any play some never went to any of the beach all. Never never, and is it possible that John was weeping Sunday, my tac budgets didn't tell it family, but no one knew his family very strongly discounts. That possibility would have had to be doing it in secret and they thought that notion was rather ridiculous. So if he got sick, from leaping. It was from regular old, if I guess, if the industry is old enough to contest the traditional leaping yes and this really only deepens the medical mystery surrounding baking, because so many people who have gotten sick or died from babying I've been using teach see babes. And especially they being devices or cartridges that were bought off the street

and no one really knows where they came from. But that's not the case with John Rex Secondly, how does Johns Deaf, as defined in diagnosed by these medical professionals locally and nationally? How does it change our understanding of weeping and its consequences. I think that his death- raises an alarming possibility, and that is that someone who apparently did not vapor teach see did not by any kind of products on the black market could also become very sick and die from a gaping, related illness right in his family, told you that heat gut feeling, as many people do, because he thought it was. So you can make them healthier and help him quit smoking yeah. He thought that this would be the thing that would help him quit smoking for good, and it did- and you know people like John Stuff in are exactly the kind of person that e cigarettes were ostensibly

did for when he cigarettes were invented and when companies started selling them on the mass market. They said that it was for people who wanted to quit smoking and wanted a healthier alternative and John was exactly that person so What's the understanding of why so many people not just on but hundreds of people are getting. From it and maybe even dying from it. While I would just point to cigarette smoking and when it was first introduced, the cigarette smoking really took off during World war, one among american men and it then until the nineteen thirties, when doctors began to link an increase in lung cancer rates to an increase in cigarette smoking, and it took decades after

it wasn't until nineteen sixty four when the surgeon general released, landmark report saying yes, smoking does cause lung cancer. So I think what a lot of doctors out there are saying. Is it is far too early to know what the long term effects of aping might be. In other words, the gestation period for any kind of public health problem is. This law is maybe even decades. Yes, in its very early in IE cigarettes life and they really didn't enter them streaming till the last ten years, in which case we would be at the giving of whatever this is not even the middle indefinitely? Nowhere near the end, I think we can say for sure that the CDC believes that there are many many more case this coming, and that this is only the tip of the iceberg,

we does Johns family think that he would say he alive today if he hadn't taken up beeping, that's a difficult question at something that they do think about and when they look back on his life, they know that taking up smoking as a teenager was certainly a bad decision and continuing to smoke. All those decades was something that they I wish he had not done, but they thought that he a really good decision when he switched to aping. They didn't worry about the health consequences of raping and when his daughter looked at the voting container. That was left over sitting on the few table. She doesn't see something that. Is harmless or something that might have helped prolong his life she's, something very dangerous link that that box right there could be the sole reason he's dead

in some ways is like looking had a gun with a bullet as it's just a method of death. Joy. Thank you very much things make on we'll be back, thinks we're going to work and thanks for staying home for treating patients and having patience for being on the front lines while having our backs thanks for working together and playing the music. You love you S, bank, can't thank you enough, but we can do our part. That's why we ve done

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