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November 08, 2019Vitamin E acetate, an ingredient added to tetrahydrocannabinol (Thc) -based products - one of the major active ingredients of cannabis - has been identified as a "very strong cause" in diseases related to electronic cigarettes that have made the US sick 2051 people, killing about forty.

This was announced by the agency for the control and prevention of diseases (CDC), but leaving open the hypothesis that other chemical substances or toxins can cause serious respiratory diseases.

The discovery is based on the analysis of fluid samples taken from the lungs of 29 sick patients, where vitamin compounds were found. "For the first time we discovered a potential toxin of concern, vitamin E acetate, in biological samples of patients" with e-cig-related lung damage, said Anne Schuchat, number two of the CDC, in a press conference. The samples, he explained, "provided evidence of the presence of vitamin E acetate at the main site of lung injury".