Vaping

Health officials investigating a nationwide outbreak of vaping illnesses have listed, for the first time, the vape brands most commonly linked to hospitalizations.

Michigan health officials have reported a second vaping-related lung injury death this year.

FOX 2 took an exclusive look inside a DEA lab in Chicago to learn more about how health officials are doing what they can to get counterfeit drugs off the street. Both the Drug Enforcement Agency and the CDC have labeled the rise in deaths connected to vaping a public health crisis.

One teen went from being a typical student to needing a machine to help him breathe in just weeks. Doctors say it's because of vaping. Now that teen is on the road to recovery after receiving not one but two new lungs during an unprecedented surgical procedure.

Doctors at a Detroit hospital have performed what could be the first double lung transplant on a man whose lungs were damaged from vaping.

The American Vaping Association, who says Whitmer's time would be better spent enacting what it calls 'sensible regulations'. However, the governor's continued defense of her ban is becoming less tenable by the day, especially in the face of CDC pronouncements linking recent lung illnesses and deaths to the use of illicit THC products.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) says it has confirmed an ingredient linked to deadly lung illnesses has been found in vaping devices in Michigan that have sickened multiple people. 

Gov. Whitmer filed an application Friday to take her overturned ban on flavored vaping products to the Michigan Supreme Court. 

After protests and legal action, a state judge decided to block Michigan's ban on flavored e-cigarettes. But one owner of two vape shops in Detroit is not quite jumping for joy 

Governor Gretchen Whitmer calls the decision wrong after a judge temporarily blocked her flavored vape ban on Tuesday.

A Michigan judge has just blocked the state's flavored e-cigarette ban. The injunction was issued by a Michigan Court of Claims judge following a lawsuit filed by a business owner who sells vape products.

Following reports of skyrocketing levels among teenagers who are now vaping, Oakland County health officials are teaming up with school superintendents and the Alliance for Healthy Communities to curb that rate. While the rates are disconcerting for officials, an increasingly troubling trend are the number of deaths connected to the practice. Oakland County Executive David Coulter said they're going to be providing more education and advocating for changes in public policy.

The first death linked to a vaping-related lung injury has been confirmed in Michigan. 

The ban on flavored vaping products is in effect Wednesday and police are cracking down.

The sale of flavored vapes is now illegal throughout Michigan, with Gov. Whitmer's ban going into effect at midnight on Wednesday.