A young woman who started vaping at the age of 15 has been given just 18 months to live — after being diagnosed with lung cancer in her early 20s. 

Kayley Boda, 22, of Manchester, in the United Kingdom, was engaging in heavy vaping on a regular basis when she started coughing up a brown substance with “grainy bits” in it in January 2025, news agency SWNS reported. 

The retail assistant said doctors turned her away eight times, telling her she had a chest infection — until she began coughing up blood.    

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After seven biopsies, Boda was diagnosed with lung cancer. She underwent surgery to remove the lower lobe of her right lung, as well as chemotherapy — and in February 2026, got the all-clear, the same source reported.

Two months later, though, doctors said the cancer had come back in the pleural lining. Now she’s been given 18 months to live.

The young woman has now issued a warning to others to be aware of the dangers of vaping.

Boda said she smoked a bit as a young teenager. She took up vaping after that. 

Then, “a few months after I switched from reusable vapes to disposable ones, I started coughing up brown, grainy mucus,” as SWNS reported.

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“Doctors turned me away eight times with a chest infection…. Then I started coughing up blood, so they did an X-ray and found a shadow on my lung,” she added.

“They told me they were 99% sure, [since I was] so young, that it wasn’t cancer, so not to worry about it. When I got the results back, and they told me it was lung cancer, it felt so surreal.”

Boda said she was “very naive” before her diagnosis and thought that “something like this would never happen to me.”

She said that she had surgery to remove half of her right lung.

“After the surgery, I started chemo and I had a terrible reaction to it. I couldn’t lift my head up. I was throwing up blood. I was urinating blood. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep.”

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She said that when she got the “all clear [in Feb. 2026], it felt amazing, but just two months later I was told the cancer had come back, and I have 18 months to live.”

She added, “I’m 22. This isn’t meant to happen to somebody my age.”

She blames her cancer on vaping, she said.  

“My symptoms started a few months after I started disposable vapes, and there’s no lung cancer in my family,” she said. “I haven’t vaped for three months, I’ve made my partner stop, I’ve made my mom stop, I’m urging all my friends to stop. Stay off the vapes,” she continued, “because they will catch up with you.”  

She said she’d been using reusable vapes since the age of 15 and began using disposable vapes a few months before her cancer symptoms started.

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In November 2024, when she developed a rash all over her body, doctors said it could have been due to shingles, chicken pox or scabies, she told SWNS.    

“I got treated for all three, and nothing worked,” Boda said. “It got to the point where I was cutting myself from scratching so hard.” 

A few months after that, she began coughing up a dark brown mucus, with “grainy bits, the consistency of sugar, in it,” she said. When the coughing continued, she visited the doctor’s office, but was told it could be scarring from pneumonia or a chest infection, she also said.    

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It wasn’t until March 2025 that she began coughing up bright red blood. At that point, doctors gave her a chest X-ray and told her they’d found a shadow on her lower right lung.    

Over the next four months, she had seven biopsies as doctors took samples from the “shadow.” In August, when she went to get the results, she was told she had stage one lung cancer.

In September 2025, she had surgery to remove the lower lobe of her right lung, and the surrounding lymph nodes. During the surgery, doctors upstaged her cancer from stage one to stage three after finding cancer in six surrounding lymph nodes, she said.  

Following the surgery, Boda was unable to breathe properly and had to learn to walk all over again.  

After finishing chemotherapy in February 2026, Kayley was given the all clear, leaving her feeling elated. 

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However, just a month after that, she began experiencing extreme chest pains and was told by doctors she had a pleural effusion — a build-up of fluid in the lungs. She had the fluid removed, but when doctors tested it, they discovered her cancer had returned to the pleural lining of her lungs, giving her 18 months to live.  

“The oncologist said this is so rare, and usually something they see in patients that are 80 years old,” she said, as SWNS reported.  

Boda claimed that doctors were unable to pin her cancer to a specific cause — but told her that smoking and vaping definitely didn’t help.

Since her diagnosis, she has stopped and is urging others to stop, too.    

She’s hoping to raise the thousands of dollars needed for treatment to try to prolong her life, she said.  

Last year, Fox News Digital reported on the case of a Pennsylvania woman, 26, who said she vaped for just one year before her lungs collapsed. She was 22 when she took up the habit, she said in an interview. 

“Everybody warned me about it, but I didn’t listen — I wish that I did,” she said.

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Dr. David Campbell, clinical director and program director at Recover Together Bend in Oregon, told Fox News Digital at that time that signs of collapsed lungs include sharp chest or shoulder pain, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.

Lung issues are just one of the many health issues linked to vaping, he warned. The habit can also increase the risk of heart disease and stroke, as well as exposure to harmful heavy metals.

Melissa Rudy of Fox News Digital contributed reporting. 

Since 2016, Democrats have increasingly asked voters to rally not around a compelling vision of America’s future, but around fear of what happens if Donald Trump returns. Every election is cast as the final firewall before catastrophe. Democracy is on the ballot. Institutions are under siege. The country cannot survive another Trump term. Some of those warnings may be sincerely felt, and some may even be justified. But when politics becomes an endless sequence of alarms, something deeper begins to erode: a political party can forget how to talk about anything beyond the emergency itself.

In my work as a psychotherapist, I often see what happens when people organize their lives around preventing old pain from recurring. Their thinking narrows into vigilance, avoidance, and threat management. Instead of moving toward the life they want, they become consumed with making sure the worst thing never happens again. It’s a pattern I explore more broadly in my forthcoming book, Therapy Nation, and it offers a useful lens for understanding what has happened to Democratic politics.

For a decade now, the Democratic Party’s most emotionally coherent message has often been less about what kind of country it wants to build than what catastrophe must be prevented. That urgency has been politically useful. It unified some moderates, progressives, and uneasy independents who agreed on little except the need to stop Trump. But every election framed primarily as catastrophe prevention carries a hidden psychological cost: it trains voters to experience politics as permanent emergency management. A party can sound endlessly clear about the danger it sees while remaining frustratingly vague about the future it wants to create. Alarm can drive turnout, but it is far less effective at building durable allegiance.

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Politics can fall into the same trap. For Democrats, 2016 was more than an election loss. It shattered a story many in the party had quietly internalized: that demographic momentum, elite cultural influence, and even the arc of history itself were all moving in their direction. Hillary Clinton’s defeat disrupted a sense of inevitability that had shaped elite political assumptions for years. What followed was understandable. The central strategic question became how to prevent Trump’s return.

In the short term, that worked. Opposition created discipline. It supplied urgency, money, turnout, and a common emotional language for an otherwise unwieldy coalition. But fear is an unstable long-term motivator. Think of the patient who starts exercising only after his doctor warns that he is nearing a heart attack. Panic may get him into the gym, but that motivation often fades once the immediate danger recedes.

By contrast, the person training for a marathon is driven by something more durable: a vision of who he wants to become. The discipline lasts because it is attached to aspiration, identity, and a meaningful future. Political parties are no different. A movement can win moments by telling voters what must be stopped, but it builds lasting identity only by telling them what future is worth creating.

That is where Democrats now appear stuck. Their strongest unifying message too often remains the need to block Trump, defend institutions from him, or prevent a return to the disruption he represents. Those arguments can mobilize in the short run, but they do not answer the deeper democratic question voters eventually ask: what positive national story are you offering? You can see the problem in the way nearly every policy disagreement, court ruling, or election result is now narrated as existential collapse rather than ordinary democratic conflict.

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The long-term cost of reactive politics is identity. Fear creates short-term cohesion while postponing hard debates over class, immigration, public safety, economic aspiration, and cultural priorities. Those tensions do not disappear simply because a coalition remains emotionally united against a threat. They remain unresolved beneath the surface, only to return later with greater force. What fear suppresses, it never truly reconciles.

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That is why Democratic identity has felt unstable. When opposition becomes the organizing force, aspiration gets crowded out. Strategy turns defensive. The political imagination narrows. A movement that defines itself mainly by the threat it opposes eventually risks becoming psychologically captive to that threat.

Over time, the cost is fatigue and exhaustion. When politics becomes an endless sequence of alarms, citizens begin to lose faith in the possibility of collective progress itself. Democracy starts to feel less like self-government and more like perpetual triage. Cynicism hardens. Trust erodes.

Voters will rally around danger for a while, but eventually they want something more sustaining: direction, purpose, and a future they can actually see themselves living in. Fear may win elections, but vision builds governing identity.

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Look, I’m not sure how it would look, but … have we ever thought about maybe giving Kansas some bigger responsibilities during the NASCAR Cup Series season? As in, the championship race? I know we’re going to start rotating those bad boys moving forward. I’m thinking Kansas should be on the list.

No offense to Miami. Yes, offense to Phoenix. Kansas might clear them both.

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Tough to argue with THAT Tyler Reddick win, right? I know I give Tiny Tyler a hard time, and it’s nothing personal, I promise. I just don’t know that Tyler Reddick winning a BILLION races is great for ratings.

But, Sunday’s win was impressive. Any time you pass Kyle Larson on the final turn, you’re doing something right.

That’s five wins in the first nine races for Reddick. Five. He’s won over half of ’em, for those who don’t do great with math. And how about this for a stat that may or may not sit well with the old-timers … Reddick is the first driver to win five of the first nine automobile races in a season since someone named Dale Earnhardt did it back in 1987.

Goodness gracious.

Anyway, congrats to Tiny Tyler. Nothing negative from me today. But, we’ve got bigger matters to attend to …

Like, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch nearing a boiling point. That’s right. I think they might kill each other soon. When I tell you that Kyle Busch is MISERABLE, this is what I mean. Head on a swivel. You’ll see.

What else? I’ve also got more #content out of the race wives, including Tara Allmendinger competing for “America’s Most Beautiful,” and one of the nastier wrecks you’ll see down in the O’Reilly (Busch) Series.

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And if that’s not enough, I’ve got Jeremy Mayfield (remember him?!) taking a blowtorch to the Cup Series after Bristol.

Four tires, a couple drops of Sunoco racing fuel, and maybe a full-time bodyguard for Denny Hamlin … Monday Morning Pit-Stop — the ‘Denny Stuffs Kyle In A Locker And Spits In His Face Before Slamming The Door’ edition — is LIVE!

With all due respect to Tiny Tyler and yesterday’s wild finish, we’re going to start with Denny vs. Kyle because I know drama when I see it. I can smell it. And this, folks, is DRAMA.

This is what it’s all about … in 2026, at least. Kyle Busch getting PISSED at Denny Hamlin, the podcaster. Not Denny the Racer. Denny the Podcaster. Amazing.

So, obviously Denny crossed a line on his show last week. Kyle is (was?) clearly a subscriber, and let his ex-teammate HAVE it before Kansas:

“People don’t know what the hell they’re talking about, and in this instance, I don’t feel like Denny Hamlin even knows what the hell he’s talking about. So he can bash me all he wants — and I can certainly make his life hell.

“If Denny wants to switch cars, I’ll switch cars with him any day of the week, any time. I would love for him to show me that he can carry it better than I can.”

Goodness gracious. There are a lot of folks in the NASCAR Cup Series garage I think I could take. Kyle Busch is so far down on that list, I’m not even sure he’s on it. He’s massive. He’s, clearly, miserable. That’s a bad combination. A dangerous one.

Now, as for Denny, here’s what he said:

That’s obviously not the full clip, but you get the picture. Here’s what Kyle’s former JGR pal also said during his podcast:

“Kyle Busch, I can’t hold the guy’s helmet talent-wise. But this is not new. He’s struggled for five years now. We have to be honest about our expectations. If you’re expecting Kyle Busch to go just back to victory lane on a regular basis, you are kidding yourselves, and you’re going to be very disappointed.

“Clearly, RCR is not good right now, but you’re a Hall of Fame, Mount Rushmore driver. Carry it better than your teammate then, OK? If you’re the greatest, carry it better than your teammate who has won (six) races. Find a way. I think that’s what he should be able to do, but it’s not happening.”

And, of course, Hamlin had to respond himself after Kyle threatened to beat the piss out of him (I’m paraphrasing!):

I’ll be honest with you … I’m with Denny here. A) he’s 100% right in what he said last week. I’ve said it for years now. Kyle Busch stinks. He has stunk. He will probably keep stinking in this car, and with this team.

And it pains me to say it, because I love Kyle Busch. He was once on pace to break all sorts of records. Now his average finish is in the 20s.

But B) what else is Denny Hamlin supposed to say here? It’s a podcast. A very, very, very popular NASCAR podcast, at Dale Jr.’s company, featuring one of the most polarizing drivers in the sport. He was asked about Kyle Busch’s struggles at RCR. He answered with honesty.

Kyle isn’t mad because Denny said any of that. He’s mad because he said it all out loud.

Anyway, let me know what you think! [email protected].

Let’s get back to racing and start this week off with a bang!

Again, Kansas should probably (definitely) be in the mix for the championship race down the road here. Those final two laps were something.

This woke Next Gen car has killed the short tracks and the big ones, but the medium ones are thriving. It’s one of the very nice things Kyle Busch and I will say about it!

PS: Don’t forget who gave Tyler Reddick the chance to win in overtime. Cody Ware, baby!

Amazing. Cody Ware is so bad, and he picks just the worst times to prove it. Denny is so defeated. Amazing #content.

OK, couple quickies on the way out. Speaking of amazing NASCAR #content, we don’t see ’em wreck quite like this anymore:

You don’t see cars flips like that in today’s world, and you really don’t see them flip like that at a place like Kansas. Wild. Carson walked away just fine, which is why we can bury it way down here at the bottom instead of it being a … bigger … story.

Next? You know what was a big story last week? Bristol being half-empty in the stands, and half-empty in living rooms across the country. It didn’t look great on TV. At all.

Jeremy Mayfield took it .. a step further … via a scathing Facebook post about the race:

“When the biggest story is how many people are staying home to watch a golf tournament in Georgia, the sport is in a coma. Ty Gibbs gets his first win in front of 100,000 empty seats. It looked like a COVID era race out there.

“If the ‘World’s Fastest Half Mile’ can’t out draw a Sunday at Augusta, then NASCAR has officially lost the south. Is it the car? Is it the drivers? Or has the “Colosseum” just become a graveyard? Tell me I’m wrong.”

I surely ain’t telling you that, Jeremy! I wrote about it twice last week. In no world should Bristol be empty. It’s OK for New Hampshire to look rough in July. I get that. But Bristol in April? Unacceptable.

LOOK at these grandstands:

Yikes. Not great.

Two more on the way out. I promise I’ll be quick, because this has been a weirdly long class. First? The ARCA Series made history this week that I’m sure all NASCAR fans will love to hear about!

Dystany Spurlock became the first black female to compete in a race, and she promptly got wrecked in a pretty … jarring … way:

Yikes. Not great! I don’t know what’s more shocking — the wreck, or the fact that Spurlock was a lap down in 10th. Tenth!

OK, that’s it for today. Again, a long class, but an important one. Not enough race WAGs, though. That’s on me. I’ll wear that one on the chin.

Here’s Tara Allmendinger throwing her hat in the ring for ‘America’s Most Beautiful’ this July.

See you at ‘Dega.