A North Carolina woman is warning others about the purported dangers of vaping devices following the sudden death of her teenage stepson.

Solomon Wynn was taken off life support last month, mere months after the 15-year-old first developed a serious cough.

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"We went to the primary care doctor because he had a bad cough. They diagnosed him with what they thought was bronchitis," Charlene Zorn, Wynn's stepmother, said in an interview published in a Thursday report.

Wynn was treated with steroids, inhalers, and antibiotics to no avail before being referred to a pulmonologist, who was able to determine that the teenager had been vaping.

"By looking at the test X-rays, she knew," according to Zorn.

Wynn had been a healthy young man before he developed the cough, according to the report.

He played football and went to the gym "every morning."

"He openly admitted it to the doctor. He didn't try and deny it," Zorn said, regarding her stepson's vaping.

"As parents, we had no clue. We had no indication that he had been vaping. Neither his father nor myself smoke, so there were no products in our house that he could get. It wasn't that it was something accessible to him. It was something he got through his friends."

The teenager said his friends gave him the vaping devices and "showed him how to do it," the report noted.

The type of vape that Wynn used has not been confirmed.

After the cough began, Wynn lost strength and eventually couldn't walk.

"After about a minute and a half, he had to stop because his breathing had become labored," Zorn said.

"The CAT scan showed that there was fluid in three places on his lungs and surrounding his heart. He was supposed to see the cardiologist that following Monday because, obviously, they had concerns because it was affecting his heart. And then on that Friday, on June 16, he collapsed and then ended up in the hospital on a ventilator."

Zorn is imploring her stepson's peers to stay away from vaping.

"All these things that we thought Solomon was going to do — we thought he would play football all the way through high school. He talked on and off about the military. He talked about jobs that he wanted to have," she said.

"We even joked about him even having a family someday. None of those things are going to happen now ... We have memories. That's all we have now," she added. "The vapes have all sorts of metals in them. They have strong nicotine in them that it affects the lungs, it turns them into — they call it popcorn lungs."

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Prior to the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had issued a report detailing the deaths of people related to a vaping- and THC-related lung illness titled EVALI.

EVALI, or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury, deaths are no longer tracked, but symptoms include "respiratory symptoms, including cough, shortness of breath or chest pain; gastrointestinal symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, or diarrhea; and nonspecific constitutional symptoms, like fever, chills, or weight loss," according to the CDC.