Nicotine vaping was not the cause of e‐cigarette, or vaping, product use‐associated lung injury in the United States.

MISCOMMUNICATION OF EVALI RISK BY HEALTH AUTHORITIES Some of the information from Australian governments about EVALI has been inaccurate and misleading. Nicotine vaping was not the cause of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury in the United States In January 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that EVALI was strongly linked to vitamin E acetate [[12]]. EVALI (E-cigarette, or Vaping, product use-Associated Lung Injury) was an outbreak of severe and sometimes fatal lung injury in North America between mid-2019 and early 2020 [[1]]. [Extracted from the article]