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STRIKE AND OMAR. I WAS BRIEFED BY MYSELF DOCTORS SAY ADD NEARLY DIED FROM VAPING GETTING A BLOOD CLOT IN HIS LUNG. I ONLY STARTED VAPING THREE MONTHS AGO SMOKE CIGARETTES FOR 30 YEARS WE’VE OF CAME VERY CLOSE TO PUTTING HIM ON A RESPIRATOR AND PUT HIM IN A MEDICALLY INDUCED COMA DIRECTOR GARY SALESMAN AT TRUMAN MEDICAL HAS NEVER RECOMMENDED VAPING AS A WAY TO QUIT SMOKING. I’VE NEVER REALLY FELT COMFORTABLE WITH IT BECAUSE I NEVER REALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS IN THERE. I THINK THEY’RE PUTTING A BAD RAP ON. JOJO BERTOLUCCI SAYS THE ISSUE, BUT YOU CAN’T PUT THE JUICE THAT GOES IN THIS IN THIS IF PEOPLE CAN’T BRING WITH VAGUE. SO WE’RE USING ILLEGAL JUICE IF YOU VAPE RESPONSIBLY DO IT LIKE IT’S MEANT TO BE DONE. YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE ANY PROBLEM. THEY’LL DO IT ADMITS. HE BOUGHT OFF THE STREET NOT FROM THE VAPE SHOPS THAT WORRIES ABOUT EVEN LEGIT PRODUCT IF YOU’RE NOT A CHEMIST, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS IN THOSE LITTLE VIALS THAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING IS SAFE AND THEN IT DROPS ON BERTOLUCCI SAYS IT HELPED HIM AND HIS KIDS QUIT SMOKING OR VAPING THE KIDS ARE GOING TO START CENTURIES REGULAR CIGARETTES, BUT WE’RE JUST STARTING TO FIND OUT THE HAZARDS OF VAPING ED FOUND OUT FIRST HAN AND SAYS HE’S DONE SO STUPID. MY WITH IT ALMOST THREE WEEKS LATER. I’M STILL DEALING WITH IT WILLIAM JOY KMBC 9 NEWS. LET’S GO AHEAD WANT TO EMPHASIZE HIS SYMPTOMS STARTED OUT LIKE

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s working with his administration to ban non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettes.Six people have died. The most recent death was a man in Kansas. Hundreds of others have a vaping-related illness. Ed, who didn’t want to share his last name, has been at Truman Medical Center nearly three weeks dealing with a vaping-related illness that nearly killed him. "Basically, I can almost no longer breathe by myself,” Ed said. Doctors say Ed had a pulmonary embolism, or blood clot in his lung. His symptoms started out like a normal bug with nausea and vomiting, then dehydration."I only started vaping three months ago. Smoked cigarettes for 30 years,” he said. "We came very close to putting him on a respirator and putting him in a medically induced coma,” Dr. Gary Salzman, Ed’s doctor and a pulmonary critical care doctor at TMC, said. Salzman has never recommended vaping as a way to quit smoking. “I’ve been concerned about it from the beginning,” he said. “I've never really felt comfortable with it because I've never really understood what was in it." Hotspot Vapes owner Joe Bertolucci says the proposed national ban is unnecessary and a few people misusing the devices are giving the industry a bad name. "I think that they're putting a bad rap on a good thing that's really helped a lot of good people stop smoking,” Bertolucci said. He says the issue is people tampering with vapes or using illegal juice. Salzman says based on what he's read, most of the issues have involved using THC or using some form of vitamin oil or CBD oil which can get oil in the lungs.“The thing that you need to know is that vaping is potentially dangerous, particularly if you alter the vaping device. I think that’s a very high-risk situation,” Salzman said. Bertolucci blames mostly previous health issues for the illnesses but says people combining juice or using coconut oil has been dangerous, too."If you vape responsibly and do it like it's meant to be done, you shouldn't have any problems,” he said. Ed admits he bought off the street, not from a vape shop, but he worries about even legitimate products. "If you're not a chemist, you do not know what is in those little vials that people are saying are safe,” he said. Bertolucci says it helped him and his kids quit smoking. “I just don’t want them to start making everybody go back to cigarettes,” Bertolucci said. “If you take away vaping, the kids are going to start getting cigarettes again." "We know the hazards of regular cigarettes, but we're just starting to find out the hazards of vaping,” Salzman said. Ed found out firsthand and says he's done with vaping for good. "Just stupid. Not worth it,” Ed said. “To the kids out there, don’t do it. It’s not worth it. You got too much life to live.”