A Missouri man whose organs shut down due to his 10-year vaping habit was saved in an unconventional way — by getting outfitted with breast implants.
“I thought it was awesome, kind of funny,” Davey Bauer, 34, told CBS News of the unorthodox operation, which went down in May at Chicago’s Northwestern Medical Center.
“He was at the end of the road,” Dr. Ankit Bharat, the facility’s chief of Thoracic Surgery and director of the Canning Thoracic Institute, said of the successful, last-ditch effort.
The St. Louis resident started smoking cigarettes when he was 21. However, he switched to vaping in 2014 because — like many young people — he thought it was a healthier way to get his nicotine fix, People reported.
The landscaper reportedly smoked a cartridge a day, which is equal to puffing a pack of cigarettes, according to the National Library of Medicine.
Nonetheless, everything seemed to be hunky dory until this past April,…
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