When 34-year-old Danny Clark started vaping, he thought he was doing his body a favor. No more smoke, no more smell—just what seemed like a cleaner alternative to cigarettes. But one night, after over a year of vaping, he went to sleep and never woke up.
His mother, Cindi, was shattered. The autopsy revealed that Danny didn’t die from lung damage, as many might assume. Instead, the extreme levels of nicotine in his system poisoned him, leading to a sudden cardiac arrest.
Before his death, Danny had shown strange symptoms—slurred speech, loss of coordination—but no one connected it to his vaping habit. Now, Cindi is speaking out, warning that the risks of vaping go far beyond “popcorn lung.”
“These devices deliver nicotine in such high concentrations,” she says. “And because there’s no real oversight, people have no idea how much they’re consuming.” She hopes her son’s story will make others think twice before assuming vaping is safe.
