LeeRay King was just 14-years-old when he first picked up a vape .

The teenager quickly became addicted, going through ‘four disposable in a week,’ and vaping ‘all day, every day.’

But one night, the teen woke in agony and was rushed to hospital, where the devastating impact of his habit was revealed.

Doctors eventually had no choice but to remove some of LeeRay’s lung — and in a bid to make him see the error of his ways, gave him a bag of his own blackened organ, as a reminder of just how much trauma he’d put his own body through.

The now 17-year-old says he’ll ‘never touch a vape again.’

It was August 2024 when LeeRay, from Wellington, New Zealand, woke up in the middle of the night, struggling to breathe and with excruciating pain on his left side.

His mum, Kylee, shares that

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