Mercedes owner goes viral using vape to test vehicle's high-tech air filter

It’s known that vaping tin negatively impact one's health, but a viral infinitesimal shows conscionable however atrocious it tin be.

Sheldon Shuffield of Fort Worth, Texas, posted a video to his TikTok relationship (@thisdadtiktoks) successful August for his much than 600,000 followers, which present has much than 2 cardinal likes and 22 cardinal views.

"Oh my God, I conscionable got a caller fancy-schmancy Mercedes," helium began. "Do you privation impervious that vaping is atrocious for you?"

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Shuffield, who erstwhile worked successful health care, explained that his Mercedes came with a HEPA filter that is "similar to what’s successful the operating room," helium said successful the video.

(Left to right) Image of the Mercedes HEPA filter surface showing a normally-filtered and cleanable interior, adjacent to the interior aft the vape fume was blown. (Sheldon Shuffield/TikTok @thisdadtiktoks)

The filter is meant to purify the air that enters the car to make a healthier environment.

Shuffield’s hubby took a puff of his vape and blew it down onto the floorboards.

As helium puffed retired the airy plume of smoke, the filter’s interior numbers changeable done the roof, rapidly changing from a "Good" 1 PM2.5 (particulate matter) rating, to an "Unhealthy" standing of 63, to a highest "Very Unhealthy" standing of 200, earlier the car began filtering retired the mediocre air.

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"Y’all!" Shuffield yelled successful reaction. "You’re blowing that astir with your kids successful the car!"

"I’m truthful thankful that my car [has] that feature, due to the fact that it conscionable opened my eyes … that was conscionable a small spot of vape fume successful my car."

Sheldon Shuffield (@thisdadtiktoks) posted his video to TikTok successful August. It present has astir 23 cardinal views. (Sheldon Shuffield/TikTok @thisdadtiktoks)

In an interrogation with Fox News Digital, Shuffield claimed that fumes from vehicles connected the roadworthy registry little harm ratings than vape smoke.

"I'm shocked that truthful galore radical willy-nilly inhale this each time long," helium said. "It conscionable blows my mind."

In a connection sent to Fox News Digital, a Mercedes spokesperson said the institution offers the optional HEPA filter arsenic portion of its "Energizing Air Control Plus" diagnostic successful the Mercedes EQS and EQE Sedan and SUV models.

"This precocious filtration strategy importantly improves aerial prime by capturing good dust, micro-particles and pollen, and reducing harmful pollutants similar sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides," the spokesperson noted.

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"With a filtration ratio exceeding 99.65% for particles arsenic tiny arsenic PM 0.3, it ensures a cleanable and harmless situation wrong the vehicle, comparable to cleanable rooms and operating theaters."

While accepted cigarettes nutrient overmuch higher levels of harmful chemicals, e-cigarettes "should not beryllium considered safe," an adept said. (iStock)

Theodore Wagener, PhD, director of the Center for Tobacco Research and co-leader of the Cancer Control Program astatine The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, told Fox News Digital that this video is "not astatine each surprising."

"The car is measuring PM2.5 (aka particulate substance with a diameter of 2.5 microns oregon less), which is tiny capable to question deep into the lungs," the adept said.

"This benignant of accusation tin summation information to halt vaping and smoking to amended wide health."

"While accepted cigarettes nutrient … a greater magnitude of harmful chemicals than e-cigarettes, e-cigarettes … should not beryllium considered safe, but alternatively considered little harmful than cigarettes." 

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The payment of having a HEPA filter successful a vehicle, Wagener said, is that it provides "real-time feedback of the interaction of your behaviors."

"This benignant of accusation tin summation information to halt vaping and smoking to amended overall health," helium added.

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Shuffield's video proves that "vaping is not benign," Wagener said.

"It should lone beryllium utilized arsenic a method of harm simplification for cigaret smokers who person been incapable to quit smoking utilizing FDA-approved products similar nicotine lozenges and patches," helium said. 

"Mercedes-Benz was the archetypal automotive shaper to person the ‘OFI CERT’ ZG 250-1 certification from the Austrian Research and Testing Institute (OFI)," Mercedes told Fox News Digital. "Air filters with this certificate trim bacteria and viruses straight astatine the filter." (iStock)

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"For smokers, switching wholly to vaping nicotine volition apt nutrient a health benefit, but the eventual extremity should beryllium to wholly halt usage of each nicotine."

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Shuffield and his hubby person "scaled back" connected their vaping habits, helium said, arsenic they mean to beryllium bully relation models for their kids – a son, 7, and a daughter, 14.

For radical who are addicted to vaping, Shuffield's proposal is to "put it down and measurement distant from it arsenic overmuch arsenic you can."

"Don’t fto it beryllium glued to your manus similar a cellphone."