LeeRay King was 14 when he started vaping because of pressure from his friends in Wellington, New Zealand. At 17, doctors removed a piece of his own lung, blackened and shriveled, after it collapsed several times.
His mother, Kylee Jope, still remembers the moment she saw the tissue in a bag. Some people say the blame lies with the brands that sell disposable vapes as if they were harmless. Others insist that the parents should have noticed sooner what was happening at home.
Who should answer for what happened to LeeRay: the industry, the schools, or the family?