| 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'] |

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## Nurses spreading false claims on e-cigarettes would be helpful

This article still claims [EVALI](/wiki/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

 * <q>increased occurrence of lung damage associated with these items.</q> -
   🟥 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.
 * <q>Especially [with] inhaled carcinogens.</q> - 🟥 trace levels.
 * <q>coming from China with substances that we don't know about</q> -
   🟧 Better regulation might be more helpful then.
 * <q>a disease we call lipoid pneumonia.</q> - 🟧 Would require
   oil-based THC vapes, not "e-cigarettes" which the article claims to be
   about.
 * <q>not really getting even any THC in the oils […]; they're actually inhaling
   butane,</q> - 🟥 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.
 * <q>In reality, they are just in a toxic state for a little while.</q> -
   🟪 Might be good drug use advise.
 * Referring to patient rampup in the ICO w/ such cases. Can't review that.
 * <q>[regarding] the oils, 70% of our THC market is untested.</q> - 🟩
   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 <q>electronic
   smoking</q> references.
 * <q>need to change our marketing strategies […] the commercials that these
   kids are seeing on TV</q> - 🟪 Maybe the lack of regulation is not
   the only issue.
 * <q>as the “safe alternative to smoking cigarettes.”</q> - 🟥 Back
   to disputing the consensus on NVPs.
 * <q>we need  stricter regulations on what's allowed to be in these oils,</q> -
   🟥 And swiftly back to assuming e-cigs contain oils.
 * <q>increase marketing to the general population […] the risk associated,
   instead of promoting it as a “safe alternative.”</q> - 🟥 The lack of
   harm exaggarations is not imminently apparent in the US.
 * <q>I think we need to get out in the schools; have presentations, education
   sessions,</q> - 🟫 Perhaps should be left to someone who doesn't
   achieve the opposite by spreading translucent hyperbole.
 * <q>child picking up nicotine […] effects it has on their brain</q> - 🟥
   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.

#### Other potential issues in article

 * [popcorn-news](/wiki/popcorn-news)
 * [gateway-hypothesis](/wiki/gateway-hypothesis)
 * [vaping-epidemic](/wiki/vaping-epidemic)



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