When they came on the market over a decade ago, e-cigarettes or vaping were billed as a safer alternative to smoking tobacco. We now know that may not be the case. There’s been a recent outbreak of severe lung illnesses caused by vaping . Dr. Mehdi Khosravi, a faculty member in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at UK Healthcare, recently talked with Dr. Greg Davis about the severe ramifications of using these nicotine delivery devices.