{"id":988042,"date":"2021-07-02T15:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T15:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adombomb.com\/?p=988042"},"modified":"2022-06-22T18:11:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:11:30","slug":"cdc-updates-the-public-on-lung-injuries-from-caping-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/cdc-updates-the-public-on-lung-injuries-from-caping-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Updates the Public on Lung Injuries from Vaping Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"
Most recently, the\u00a0US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0(CDC) conducted a press briefing to update the public and physicians on new research, statistics, and the future of the epidemic.<\/p>\n
J. Timothy Smith, a founding partner at\u00a0Elliott & Smith Law Firm in Fayetteville, AR, stated that the CDC report was encouraging in some ways. \u201cIt\u2019s great that officials are getting to the bottom of the lung diseases related to e-cig use, and that there are fewer instances of medical conditions. However, the damage has been for some victims. The dangers of vaping weren\u2019t fully investigated or disclosed, so far too many people sustained injuries and many families are feeling the pain of losing a loved one.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fortunately, victims and their families may have legal options under Arkansas law under the theory of products liability. According to Mr. Smith, \u201cThese claims typically proceed through strict liability, where you don\u2019t have to prove that a manufacturer was at fault in causing a dangerous product to be released within the stream of commerce. It\u2019s far easier to prove the essential elements when you don\u2019t need to establish negligence.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition, victims may also be able to recover by proving that a manufacturer breached a warranty, either express or implied. If successful, individuals may be able to obtain monetary damages for medical costs, pain and suffering, and other losses.<\/p>\n
Once touted as a safer alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes, vaping devices and e-cigarettes have come under fire in the last few months as injuries and fatalities linked to their usage mount. Most recently, the\u00a0US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0(CDC) conducted a press briefing to update the public and physicians on new research, statistics,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988103,"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988042\/revisions\/988103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/988043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elliottsmithlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}