A 21-year-old Florida man is in a medically induced coma at a Miami hospital after he was badly burned when his e-cigarette blew up in his mouth.
After the explosion he was found not breathing with his whole face and neck burned.
He was rushed to a local hospital before being airlifted for treatment in Miami. There they discovered the extent of his gruesome burns which are suspected as linked to the device's lithium battery.
When the device exploded, the mouthpiece shot down his throat and possibly exploded a second time in his lungs.
Though rare, this explosion wasn't the first of its kind for these battery-powered devices.
Earlier this month a California woman was awarded nearly $2 million after she was badly burned by an exploding e-cigarette in 2013.
In 2014, a 65-year-old British grandmother was left fighting for her life after her oxygen supply blew up as she puffed on an e-cig. That same month, video captured an e-cig exploding in an English pub and nearly igniting a barmaid.
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