North Carolina's first vaping-related death reported in Greensboro
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WTVD) -- For the first time, a person in North Carolina has died from vaping.
Cone Health, a hospital in Greensboro, confirms a patient died Wednesday after coming in with vaping-related problems.
That patient was the eighth vaping-related patient admitted to the hospital since August.
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North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported new statistics Thursday showing 40 vaping-related incidents so far this year. The Health Department's numbers were reported before Cone Heath confirmed its patient had died.
Andrew Doss of Mooresville recently found himself in the hospital being treated for vaping-related lung disease.
"It was definitely the most pain I've ever been through and if the lung collapse didn't cure me of wanting to vape, the chest tube definitely did," Doss said.
Doss, 35, said he started vaping to quit smoking.
"We all think it's safer or as safe as cigarettes, and I don't think it is," he told WSOC.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory at the end of August about the increase in vaping-related health concerns.
Across the country, there have been 805 confirmed or probable cases of vaping-related lung disease in 46 states. Twelve people have died.
