Random Vaping Horror Stories That Will Make You Think Twice About Vape Pens (14 items)

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  (#1) Exploding E-Cigarette Claims The Life Of A 24-Year-Old Texas Man

  William Eric Brown, a 24-year-old from Texas, suffered "cerebral infarction and herniation" after his E-cigarette exploded and cut open the left artery in his neck, according to NBC News. Brown is the second reported fatality caused by a combusted vaping device. 

  According to the US Fire Administration, E-Cigarettes are not required to pass a safety test and preventative products are restricted due to FDA regulation concerns. 
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  (#2) E-Cig Bursts In A Teen's Hand

  A 17-year-old boy in Ogden, NY suffered a horrendous fate when his e-cigarette exploded in his hand as he was taking a drag, putting a hole in the back of his throat and forcing him to get nine stitches in his hand.

  His mother, who was present for the aftermath, said, "He came flying through the door, I actually thought he had had a car accident. There was so much blood."
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  (#3) 14-Year-Old Blinded At Brooklyn Mall

  In 2016, a 14-year-old boy was blinded when an e-cigarette exploded at a mall kiosk in Brooklyn. The injury occurred after an employee connected one of the vaporizers to the battery of the store. The boy, Leor Domatov, said that he can no longer see out of one eye because "I got a cut through my cornea."
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  (#4) E-Cigarette Burns Hole In Young Dad's Lungs

  A 33-year-old dad from Surrey, England said that he gave up smoking for vaping in order to extend his life, but the "healthy" alternative ended up doing him more harm than good. While he was taking a hit, the machine shot hot nicotine juice down his throat and burned a hole in his lung. After going to the hospital and getting hooked up to an oxygen machine, he's still having trouble kicking the vape monkey.

  "I want to give up completely but at the moment I’m just having the odd roll-up. I’m such an addict I can’t just go cold turkey even after what happened.”
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  (#5) Toddler Swallows E-Cigarette Refill

  This has to be one of the scariest things that can happen to a parent. In 2014, a two-year-old girl swallowed a nicotine cartridge and almost immediately started vomiting up everything she had. Luckily, she was rushed to the hospital and given a clean bill of health a few hours later. 
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  (#6) E-Cigarette Explodes, Burns Down House

  A family of four experienced one of the worst tragedies that can befall a household when their 15-year-old son's e-cigarette charger caught his bed on fire and the flames quickly spread to the rest of the house.

  Luckily, everyone escaped with their life intact, but significant damage was done to the home. 
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  (#7) E-Cigarette Explosion Knocks Out Man's Teeth

  In May 2016, an Albany, NY man was vaping when the battery in his handheld device blew up in his face, knocking out his teeth and ripping a hole in his tongue. The afflicted vaper told a CNN affiliate: "[It was] like an M80 bomb went off in my mouth."
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  (#8) Man Loses Eye After E-Cigarette Explosion

  A man in Orange County, CA lost an eye while he was vaping in March 2016. Joseph Cavins' vape pen exploded and sent shrapnel nine feet into the air. "I felt like I was hit on the side of the head and everything went south from there," Cavins said.
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  (#9) Kids Love Nicotine Juice

  We don't know what it is about poison, but kids LOVE to drink it. According to research at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio, an epidemic of children swallowing nicotine liquid has taken over the Western world.

  Since 2012, annual calls about children swallowing or inhaling e-cigarettes jumped from 14 to 223 in three short years. Close to two percent of children, about 77 kids, had severe complications including seizures, coma, or breathing problems.
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  (#10) Exploding E-Cigarette Sets A Man's Pants On Fire

  If you're smoking e-cigs, it's probably not a good idea to keep the battery in your pocket. It might be the easiest place to keep it, but it could also set your leg on fire and give you permanent burns.

  According to the man with the burnt leg, “My left leg was totally covered in fire and my right was singed. I could have lost my private parts or worse. It was terrifying. If I’d been vaping at the time it could have taken my face off." 
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  (#11) Exploding Battery Causes Burns

  Reddit user Eskimoroll had a run-in with some bad batteries when he tried to power his personal box mod. The unregulated batteries shorted something out and things got real. "[The batteries] started venting gas and fire from a short or something. It was terrifying. My face was fortunately okay but I got a good burn on my arm, there was some furniture damage from the battery acid, and the mod was completely melted."
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  (#12) User Burns Their Mouth On Hot Coils

  If you think something's wrong with whatever you're using to vape, stop whatever you're doing and check it out. What you shouldn't do is mess around with it while you walk down a busy street because you're probably going to end up burning your mouth like Redditor Develop-mental: "I decided to postpone the inspection till a [sic] reached the other side of the street. Bout halfway across the street, I took a hit off the mod, and immediately realized I was still holding the top cap in my other hand. I had stuck the glowing, burning coils directly to my lips and tongue."
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  (#13) Vape Machine Almost Explodes

  There's nothing scarier than the idea of your trusty smoke tank exploding. Not only is it your main source of sweet vape, but it could do some real damage. Redditor Duquesne419 had to go full on MacGyver to keep his off-brand voltage booster from exploding and burning the world down.

  "I grabbed a pair of pliers. The battery wasn't hot yet so I just ripped the top off and the bottom, and pulled every wire from everything I could, hoping it hadn't runaway [sic] yet. It hadn't, cooled down and taken to battery recycling at staples. Only time I've been truly concerned in 6 months of vaping."
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  (#14) Vape Machine Sets Itself On Fire

  Remember, mods might be cool, but they can also be super dangerous. Redditor DrNeuk learned this when he left his Signum in his buddy's car during lunch and came back to find a super-heated fire machine waiting for him in the passenger seat.

  "The top pin in the 510 connector had fused itself with the durlin it's housed in, along with the atty that I had on top. Atty and the top section of the mod is destroyed. The cotton inside the addy was clearly on fire at some point, charred completely wrecked the positive post in it."

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