| category | factcheck |
| score | Half-Truth 🟥🟥🟨🟩🟩 |
| claim | "E-cigarettes cause lung injuries" |
| url | https://www.oncnursingnews.com/view/e-cigarettes-pose-serious-health-risk-for-patients |
| author | Oncology Nursing News / Lindsay Fischer |
| tags | ['third-party-fact-check', 'EVALI', 'popcorn-news', 'vaping-epidemic'] |
Nurses spreading false claims on e-cigarettes would be helpful
This article still claims EVALI was caused by e-cigarettes. Some other allusions are hard to decipher, but don't exempt it from a review.
It mostly confuses NVPs for THC vaporizers or dry-herb heaters. It's difficult to tell, but easily explained by the reference to interaction with the CDC. Tiffany Klein doesn't seem to have a profile at CTCA, so this review is attributed to the publisher instead.
phrase check
increased occurrence of lung damage associated with these items.
- 🟥 EVALI cases might still be going on, given the widespread misattribution and thus lack of awareness. Unfortunately, this article does little to alleviate it. And the "increased occurence" remains unsubstantiated.Especially [with] inhaled carcinogens.
- 🟥 trace levels.coming from China with substances that we don't know about
- 🟧 Better regulation might be more helpful then.a disease we call lipoid pneumonia.
- 🟧 Would require oil-based THC vapes, not "e-cigarettes" which the article claims to be about.not really getting even any THC in the oils […]; they're actually inhaling butane,
- 🟥 This is where it gets confusing. As that would now be referring to analog/gas-powered dry-herb vaporizers. Those exist, of course. But have even less relation to NVPs nor THC-VALI cases.In reality, they are just in a toxic state for a little while.
- 🟪 Might be good drug use advise.- Referring to patient rampup in the ICO w/ such cases. Can't review that.
[regarding] the oils, 70% of our THC market is untested.
- 🟩 Some actual advise there.- Study on marijuana use doubling... seems to indicate that was supposed
to be the actual topic, despite article being interspersed with
electronic smoking
references. need to change our marketing strategies […] the commercials that these kids are seeing on TV
- 🟪 Maybe the lack of regulation is not the only issue.as the “safe alternative to smoking cigarettes.”
- 🟥 Back to disputing the consensus on NVPs.we need stricter regulations on what's allowed to be in these oils,
- 🟥 And swiftly back to assuming e-cigs contain oils.increase marketing to the general population […] the risk associated, instead of promoting it as a “safe alternative.”
- 🟥 The lack of harm exaggarations is not imminently apparent in the US.I think we need to get out in the schools; have presentations, education sessions,
- 🟫 Perhaps should be left to someone who doesn't achieve the opposite by spreading translucent hyperbole.child picking up nicotine […] effects it has on their brain
- 🟥 Mice brain logic, of course.- Some reference to abstinence around operations. 🟩 Perfectly reasonable.
verdict
It's not clear what author and the "interviewed" nurse were trying to achieve here. But the result looks highly confused and likely informed by CDC equivocations. "Half-Truth", albeit it probably isn't.