Another vaping death in US confirmed, brings toll to 22

A 17-year-old boy from the Bronx died of vaping-related illness, becoming the New York's first fatality, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday. He announced the death following an unrelated news conference, according to the Albany Times Union.  The US vaping crisis has now claimed 22 lives across 19 states.   Some 110 people in New York have vaping-related illnesses but the boy, who was treated at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, according to the New York Post, was the first to die in the state.
Of those, 21 are in New York City, according to the state's health department. Deaths have also been reported in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, with two deaths in each California, Kansas and Oregon.
As of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) October 1 figures, over 1,000 people in the US were suffering from the mysterious lung damage.
Massachusetts has enforced the strictest temporary ban on e-cigarettes, blocking all sales of the devices, while states like New York and Michigan have banned only flavored e-cigarettes.
US health officials are still uncertain what exactly is causing the new disease, but have urged Americans to stay away from THC and marijuana vapes, many of which are bootleg and have been linked to over three quarters of the reported illnesses.

Recent research has suggest that it may be 'toxic fumes' in the e-liquid juices that sickening people, rather than a result of oils in them getting into the lungs, as previously believed.
E-cigarettes have been billed as safer alternatives to combustible cigarettes and some studies have found they contain fewer carcinogens.
But a study published Monday found that nicotine e-cigarette vapor does cause lung cancer in mice, when they are exposed to it in high doses over a year.
Although the clearest links continue to be be to black market and THC e-cigarettes, the CDC and Food and Drug Administration say that cases are not limited to these products.