Vaping additive blamed for outbreak produces ‘exceptionally toxic’ byproducts – TechCrunch

The threat of vape lung seems to have receded to the distant past now that we are all facing the coronavirus, but new research has shed light on the nature of that much more limited epidemic. It turns out vitamin E acetate, the vape fluid additive until now merely associated with lung damage, converts into a toxic chemical cocktail when heated. That vitamin E acetate is not healthy to inhale is