{"id":111,"date":"2025-12-02T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:33:09","slug":"horrific-photo-shows-black-and-shrivelled-lung-of-teen-who-vaped-all-day-every-day-for-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Horrific photo shows black and shrivelled lung of teen who vaped ‘all day, every day’ for three years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The teenager was left fighting for his life<\/h2>\n
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A telling photo has shown the damaging impact vaping can have on people, especially teenagers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the age of 14, LeeRay King began using disposable\u00a0vapes<\/a>, and got to the point where he was ‘heavily vaping’ between then and the age of 16.<\/p>\n

LeeRay, who lives near Wellington,\u00a0New Zealand<\/a>, said: “I got kind of peer pressured into vaping.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t like it at first but then got hooked on it within the first week.<\/p>\n

“I was heavily vaping from 14 to 16. I went through about four disposables in a week. I would vape all day every day.”<\/p>\n

It was in August 2024 when LeeRay discovered the damage his heavy vaping habit had inflicted on his lungs after he was admitted to\u00a0hospital<\/a>\u00a0following extreme pain in his left side.<\/p>\n

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The teenager had become extremely unwell (Kennedy News and Media)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Subsequent tests revealed this was caused by a pneumothorax – a condition where air leaks into the space between the lung and the chest wall, causing the lung to collapse.<\/p>\n

The teenager’s left lung collapsed four more times over the following months, leading surgeons to perform a pleurodesis, a procedure that creates a strong adhesion between the lung and the chest wall to prevent fluid from building up once more.<\/p>\n

However, this procedure ultimately failed, so LeeRay underwent another surgery to remove a lining of the chest wall – known as a pleurectomy.<\/p>\n

He then had to endure a further procedure in which doctors removed a damaged black chunk of LeeRay’s lung, with a shocking photo showing LeeRay’s chopped out pieces of lung in a sealed plastic packet, brown and shrivelled.<\/p>\n

LeeRay’s Mother, Kylee Jope, said: “When we picked it up, LeeRay pulled it out and we were both like ‘oh my god’.<\/p>\n

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The photo that was a huge wake up call for LeeRay (Kennedy News and Media)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“It was the damaged piece of the lung that they had removed. We’re actually going to bury it at our house as a native tree. We were shocked.<\/p>\n

“I never realised vapes could do this. They advertise it to help give up smoking. You’re pretty much intentionally drowning your insides. Seeing my son go through that was horrifying.”<\/p>\n

Now, the teenager and his mother are warning teenagers about the dangers of vapes.<\/p>\n

“I actually went and talked to one of the primary schools near where I live. I don’t want them going through what I went through,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It was a pain that no one at a young age should be going through. I would tell anyone don’t do it.<\/p>\n

“I’ll never touch a vape again.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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