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karen, a little too close to ignore, it s weak, but she s not dead yet. david? rob marciano tracking it all for us again tonight. thank you, rob. and this evening, the cdc is now out with alarming new numbers. a major increase in the number of people suffering from vaping-related lung disease. the cdc reporting a 52% increase in just a week. now 805 cases in 46 states. the death toll now rising to 12. abc s steve osunsami in atlanta. reporter: 35-year-old andrew doss of suburban charlotte, north carolina, is included in tonight s new alarming numbers. he s one of more than 800 people who ve suffered from lung injury that doctors are now linking to the use of e-cigarettes. he says he started vaping in 2018 to help him quit smoking after 15 long years. 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. reporter: the cdc is now reporting 805 probable cases of
and run into people like ray price. you know, i d had a couple of hits along the way, but marijuana didn t really knock me out because i was a chain smoker, first of all. i d smoke two or three packs of cigarettes a day, and they were killing me. harvey: did you feel that? that they were killing you? willie: oh, i had pneumonia four or five times, a lung collapse and all that horse ( bleep ). so i finally said, well, it s gotta be marijuana or nicotine. i can t do both. and i wasn t getting high on chesterfields, that s so i rolled up 20 fat ones, stuck it in my chesterfield package, and i haven t smoked a cigarette since. did you give up drinking for marijuana? oh, i ll take a drink. you got one? no, i don t. i don t. i m sorry. clearly this is your thing. willie: this is better for me. alcohol and i don t get along. i don t know a lot of people that it gets along with.
and run into people like ray price. you know, i d had a couple of hits along the way, but marijuana didn t really knock me out because i was a chain smoker, first of all. i d smoke two or three packs of cigarettes a day, and they were killing me. harvey: did you feel that? that they were killing you? willie: oh, i had pneumonia four or five times, a lung collapse and all that horse ( bleep ). so i finally said, well, it s gotta be marijuana or nicotine. i can t do both. and i wasn t getting high on chesterfields, that s so i rolled up 20 fat ones, stuck it in my chesterfield package, and i haven t smoked a cigarette since. did you give up drinking for marijuana? oh, i ll take a drink. you got one? no, i don t. i don t. i m sorry. clearly this is your thing. willie: this is better for me. alcohol and i don t get along. i don t know a lot of people that it gets along with.