A nurse claims vaping left him "looking death in the face" when he needed an agonising operation to remove a portion of his collapsed lung.
Jonathan Belcher said he started vaping at 17 and developed an addiction so severe he was smoking the equivalent of "20 cigarettes a day."
But last month on April 26, the now-22-year-old woke up breathless and with excruciating pain in his left shoulder like "a balloon about to pop" - making him feel like he was dying.
