It’s understandn that vaping can adversely impact one’s health, but a viral moment shows equitable how terrible it can be.
Sheldon Shuffield of Fort Worth, Texas, posted a video to his TikTok account (@thisdadtiktoks) in August for his more than 600,000 folshrinks, which now has more than two million enjoys and 22 million watchs.
“Oh my God, I equitable got a novel fancy-schmancy Mercedes,” he began. “Do you want proof that vaping is terrible for you?”
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Shuffield, who once labored in health nurture, elucidateed that his Mercedes came with a HEPA filter that is “analogous to what’s in the operating room,” he shelp in the video.
(Left to right) Image of the Mercedes HEPA filter screen shothriveg a normassociate-filtered and immacuprocrastinateed interior, next to the interior after the vape smoke was blown. (Sheldon Shuffield/TikTok @thisdadtiktoks)
The filter is uncomferventt to purify the air that accesss the car to create a healthier environment.
Shuffield’s husband took a puff of his vape and blew it down onto the floorboards.
As he puffed out the airy plume of smoke, the filter’s interior numbers stoasty thraw the roof, speedyly changing from a “Good” 1 PM2.5 (particuprocrastinateed matter) rating, to an “Unfit” rating of 63, to a peak “Very Unfit” rating of 200, before the car began filtering out the necessitatey air.
“Y’all!” Shuffield yelled in reaction. “You’re blothriveg that around with your kids in the car!”
“I’m so appreciative that my car [has] that feature, becaengage it equitable uncovered my eyes … that was equitable a little bit of vape smoke in my car.”
Sheldon Shuffield (@thisdadtiktoks) posted his video to TikTok in August. It now has cforfeitly 23 million watchs. (Sheldon Shuffield/TikTok @thisdadtiktoks)
In an interwatch with Fox News Digital, Shuffield claimed that fumes from vehicles on the road sign up shrink harm ratings than vape smoke.
“I’m shocked that so many people willy-nilly inhale this all day lengthy,” he shelp. “It equitable blows my mind.”
In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, a Mercedes spokesperson shelp the company gives the nonessential HEPA filter as part of its “Energizing Air Control Plus” feature in the Mercedes EQS and EQE Sedan and SUV models.
“This proceedd filtration system meaningfully betters air quality by capturing fine dust, micro-particles and pollen, and reducing detrimental pollutants enjoy sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides,” the spokesperson remarkd.
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“With a filtration efficiency go beyonding 99.65% for particles as petite as PM 0.3, it promises a immacuprocrastinateed and defended environment inside the vehicle, comparable to immacuprocrastinateed rooms and operating theaters.”
While traditional cigarettes create much higher levels of detrimental chemicals, e-cigarettes “should not be think abouted defended,” an expert shelp. (iStock)
Theodore Wagener, PhD, honestor of the Caccess for Tobacco Research and co-directer of the Cancer Control Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Caccess, telderly Fox News Digital that this video is “not at all astonishing.”
“The car is measuring PM2.5 (aka particuprocrastinateed matter with a diameter of 2.5 microns or less), which is petite enough to travel meaningful into the lungs,” the expert shelp.
“This type of increateation can incrrelieve motivation to stop vaping and smoking to better overall health.”
“While traditional cigarettes create … a fantasticer amount of detrimental chemicals than e-cigarettes, e-cigarettes … should not be think abouted defended, but instead think abouted less detrimental than cigarettes.”
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The profit of having a HEPA filter in a vehicle, Wagener shelp, is that it provides “genuine-time feedback of the impact of your behaviors.”
“This type of increateation can incrrelieve motivation to stop vaping and smoking to better overall health,” he inserted.
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Shuffield’s video shows that “vaping is not benign,” Wagener shelp.
“It should only be engaged as a method of harm reduction for cigarette smokers who have been unable to quit smoking using FDA-apshowd products enjoy nicotine lozenges and patches,” he shelp.
“Mercedes-Benz was the first automotive manufacturer to get the ‘OFI CERT’ ZG 250-1 certification from the Austrian Research and Testing Institute (OFI),” Mercedes telderly Fox News Digital. “Air filters with this certificate shrink bacteria and harmful softwarees honestly at the filter.” (iStock)
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“For smokers, switching endly to vaping nicotine will foreseeed create a health profit, but the ultimate goal should be to endly stop engage of all nicotine.”
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Shuffield and his husband have “scaled back” on their vaping habits, he shelp, as they intfinish to be excellent role models for their kids – a son, 7, and a daughter, 14.
For people who are inserticted to vaping, Shuffield’s advice is to “put it down and step away from it as much as you can.”
“Don’t let it be glued to your hand enjoy a cellphone.”
