--- title: Canadian Teen Diagnosed with Severe Illness Linked to Vaping description: A Canadian teenager has been diagnosed with "severe respiratory illness" linked to vaping products, health officials confirmed Wednesday. canonical: https://time.com/5680528/vaping-lung-illness-canada/ author: Madeleine Carlisle article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-18T20:28:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T07:23:43.308Z article:section: Health og:title: Canadian Teenager Diagnosed With 'Severe Respiratory Illness' Linked to Vaping og:description: The teenager was on life support in an intensive care unit and has since recovered og:url: https://time.com/5680528/vaping-lung-illness-canada/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Canadian Teenager Diagnosed With 'Severe Respiratory Illness' Linked to Vaping twitter:description: The teenager was on life support in an intensive care unit and has since recovered twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Canadian Teenager Diagnosed With 'Severe Respiratory Illness' Linked to Vaping > Sponsored content. 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According to Mackie, the unidentified individual was a “high school age youth” who had “no other health issues whatsoever.” He added that “\[the individual\] had quite a severe illness course, including ICU life support.” The teenager recovered and is now at home. Mackie’s said his team was notified of the case late last week. Mackie would not comment if the individual had vaped cannabis, [which some have argued](https://time.com/5670147/vaping-marijuana-lung-disease/) is driving the rise of vaping-related illnesses in the United States. As of Sept. 11, the Center for Disease Control in the U.S. had [identified](https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/s0912-update-cases-vaping.html) 380 confirmed and probable [cases of lung disease](https://time.com/5655329/vaping-lung-disease-cdc/) associated with vaping in 36 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. [Seven people](https://time.com/5679005/vaping-death/) have died from vaping-related respiratory illnesses in the U.S. since the first case was reported on Aug. 23. “It’s important to point out that there are limitations to the science here,” Mackie said. “Many of the chemicals used in e-cigarettes have not been tested for their health impacts… It’s not known how e-cigarettes are causing these health concerns.” But he stressed that there was “no other potential cause \[for the illness\] identified other than vaping.” “The use of these products is escalating, especially by high school-aged youth, which is a major concern for us,” Linda Stobo, the manager of chronic disease and tobacco control at the Middlesex-London Health Unit, said at the press conference. Stobo cited [a study](https://www.cancer.ca/en/about-us/for-media/media-releases/national/2019/youth-vaping/?region=qc) by Professor David Hammond of the University of Waterloo that found vaping among Canadian youth ages 16-19 increased 74% between 2017 and 2018. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5680528/vaping-lung-illness-canada/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5680528/vaping-lung-illness-canada/"},"headline":"Canadian Teenager Diagnosed With 'Severe Respiratory Illness' Linked to Vaping","datePublished":"2019-09-18T20:28:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T07:23:43.308Z","description":"The teenager was on life support in an intensive care unit and has since recovered","url":"https://time.com/5680528/vaping-lung-illness-canada/","keywords":["Canada","health","Vaping","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Madeleine Carlisle","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/madeleine-carlisle/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/canada/","name":"Canada"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5680528/vaping-lung-illness-canada/","name":"Canadian Teenager Diagnosed With 'Severe Respiratory Illness' Linked to Vaping"}}]}] ```