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24-year-old vape addict issues terrifying warning after suffering heart attack

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Published 13:45 3 Jul 2025 GMT+1

24-year-old vape addict issues terrifying warning after suffering heart attack

Jacob Temple told his terrifying vaping story through a series of TikTok videos

Madison Burgess

Madison Burgess

A 24-year-old TikToker has issued a stark warning to vapers after he suffered a heart attack and did ‘irreversible’ damage to his lungs due to the habit.

Jacob Temple, who hails from Kentucky, posted a video to the social media platform in May, urging people to give up the habit - and it has since racked up almost four million views.

Vaping has increased in popularity in recent years with more and more people swapping them into their routines in place of traditional cigarettes.

And while experts still think vaping is better for us than smoking cigarettes, a groundbreaking study earlier this year found that opting for a flavoured vape may actually be 'more dangerous’.

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Jacob is one of those who have experienced the hazard first-hand and is desperately warning others that it’s just not worth it.

In the clip, he told viewers: “Okay so this is a PSA for anybody out there still using those electronic robot dongs (vapes) to breathe in flavoured air. Stop before you regret it, okay.

One man has issued a warning to vapers after he suffered a 'minor heart attack' due to the habit (Matthew Horwood / Getty Images)
One man has issued a warning to vapers after he suffered a 'minor heart attack' due to the habit (Matthew Horwood / Getty Images)

"I now have the lungs of a 70-year-old man, all of the small airway tubes at the bottom of your lungs, those are scarred up permanently, forever.”

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He continued: "I can never inflate or deflate my lungs to 100 percent again in my life. It feels like I'm breathing through a straw constantly, always, just never getting enough air.

“And there's nothing that can be done. It’s permanent. Scar tissue. Please stop.”

In another video, the TikToker recalled how he suffered a ‘minor’ heart attack known as an anterior myocardial infarction and his ‘whole body was fighting to stay alive’.

He explained how he started experiencing ‘serious pains’ in his kidneys and liver and began to worry that something sinister was going on.

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Jacob said: “I would literally wake up sweating bullets and shivering and the whole side of my bed would be soaked, not to mention that I would wake up being unable to sleep.

Jacob Temple, 24, revealed he's done irreversible damage to his lungs (Getty Images/Witthaya Prasongsin)
Jacob Temple, 24, revealed he's done irreversible damage to his lungs (Getty Images/Witthaya Prasongsin)

“In my sleep, I would cough to the point that my lungs would fill up with air, because I could inhale fully, but not exhale.

“So I would breathe in air and not be able to get it all out and that would compound to the point where I had to either use a nebuliser or not be alive in the next five minutes.”

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He continued “My blood oxygen level was at 80 percent. I had a literal mini heart attack while hooked up to the EKG. I was 24—that should not be happening. It almost took my life.”

Jacob first started vaping when he was just 12 years old, with the view that it would be 'safer' than smoking cigarettes.

Elsewhere, in the UK, disposable vapes were banned by the government this year in a bid to protect the health of children and adolescents.

The ban, which came into force on 1 June, prohibits the sale and supply of single-use vaping devices across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Featured Image Credit: Martina Paraninfi/Getty Images

Topics: Vaping, Health, TikTok, Social Media, US News

Madison Burgess
Madison Burgess

Madison is a Journalist at Tyla with a keen interest in lifestyle, entertainment and culture. She graduated from the University of Sheffield with a first-class degree in Journalism Studies, and has previously written for DMG Media as a Showbiz Reporter and Audience Writer.

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