. >> we are talking about vaping.our administration of cigarette. >> all right. t's events, a smarter start to your day. mornings on al jazeera america [ ♪ music ] >>> hi, guys. welcome back. crystal, what technology are you bringing to us? >> we are talking about vaping used in electronic cigarettes. we went to a conference to look at the subculture. >>> let's check it out. >> reporter: everywhere you look people are puffing on an alternative to conventional tobacco cigarettes. they are called electronic cigarettes and are hugely popular, thanks in part to a slew of ads featuring virtuous. >> jenny mccarthy, and i finally found an alternative to grts. >> reporter: i was intryinged. we are at the southern california electronic cigarette convention. e-cigarettes were founded in china and exploded in the united states, sales estimated to hit $1.7 billion this year. let's see what the fuss is all about. >> cigarettesn't cool any more, believe it or not. >> after losing his father to lung cancer, a chinese pharmacist inve

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. >> we are talking about vaping.administration of cigarette. >> all right. [ ♪ music ] >>> hi, guys. welcome back. crystal, what technology are you bringing to us? >> we are talking about vaping used in electronic cigarettes. we went to a conference to look at the subculture. >>> let's check it out. >> reporter: everywhere you look people are puffing on an alternative to conventional tobacco cigarettes. they are called electronic cigarettes and are hugely popular, thanks in part to a slew of ads featuring virtuous. >> jenny mccarthy, and i finally found an alternative to grts. >> reporter: i was intryinged. we are at the southern california electronic cigarette convention. e-cigarettes were founded in china and exploded in the united states, sales estimated to hit $1.7 billion this year. let's see what the fuss is all about. >> cigarettesn't cool any more, believe it or not. >> after losing his father to lung cancer, a chinese pharmacist invented the first electronic cigarette in 2003 as a safer alternative to cigare

>> she is vaping. >> you do not see any confusion between smoking and vaping. >> of course there is somenfusion but to defeat tobacco and cigarettes we have to appeal to smokers. >> let me show you another official document from your company that is on your website. as part of what you have called the smoking prevention program. you recognize it? >> i am here to represent blu. i do not know what you are showing. >> could i have all these documents made part of the official record? you recognize that document? >> it is from the site that they sponsor but they are not responsible for the messaging. i am here to speak for blu. >> if it is a lorelard document you are saying they are not responsible for it? >> this is not on the website. >> it is not part of real parents, real answers. >> i assume it is. you have never seen it before? which i have never looked at the site in depth. >> you have never looked at the site in depth. you are here representing blu, are you not? >> correct. >> let me ask you as someone who has ever seen it before. it says for the first time in 43 years smoking ads ar

vape in front of most buildings within 30 feet. >> vape?ke, is it? >> yes, but it is being treated as smoke. >> what you're talking about is the regulatory uncertainty. why are you investing in e-cigarettes when you do not know how it will play out, and why are you buying in the big menthol brand when the government may in them altogether? >> they are trying to get ahead of the brand. thank you, olivia sterns. it is a huge megadeal. almost 28 billion dollars worth. we have retell sales coming out at 8:40 a.m.. jpmorgan'sat, better-than-expected results. >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance" on bloomberg television and bloomberg radio. green on the screen, negative 3 on futures, looking at the bloomberg terminal, we await goldman sachs earnings. scarlet fu armed and ready. you just like in all n ighter. >> i did, actually. >> adam johnson with us as well, chris grisanti from grisanti capital management. .e will go beneath the headline >> jpmorgan shares are trading higher in the premarket by 2%, which gives you an indication of

baking is very popular here -- vaping is very popular here. i think 40% of the medical marijuana market is in the edible market. it is far more potent. people need to be educated about this and primarily our youth. i will get back to our youth because that is our organization's primary concern. our youth use is very high. and now we are starting to see these studies saying how damaging marijuana is to a developing brain. that is really the concern. have 14, 15, 16-year-olds using this because they think it is medicine, it will help them concentrate, it will help them with depression and anxiety, these are some of the reasons that high schoolers are telling us why they are using marijuana, but it is very confusing for our kids and we have not done an adequate job informing them of the facts and how this is a very harmful product for adolescents, for the developing brain. and people -- and kids really need to stay away from marijuana. that is our main message. host: gina carbone talking about recreational marijuana here to answer your questions.

packs a day and now vapes exclusively. sara says it is great to hear the success stories i'm proud of tobacco andquitting speaking up. this one say is parents must actionsponsibility for of their own children. parent of smoking children should be jailed for abuse. allison says scientists should be scientists and activists activists. and we welcome your comments, too. go back to calls. robert, evening. doing?are you >> fine, thank you. pick up your phone instead of the speaker we would hear you better. >> okay, fine. >> that would be good. now?ay >> well, go ahead, robert with your comment. >> okay. i cant know too much how answer your question but i'm 85 years old. veteran. i wore a badge, i have been a cop for 39 years. around a lot.n now when you come to the smoking stuff i refer to something like i was in the military hospital. you go in the hospital and they will have cigarettes in there but now -- they don't have cigarettes but now the advantage cigarettes. they won't contaminate nobody else. in a bar.smoking we have

i started vaping and it started getting better and better. >> are the claims really true or are they smoke screen? the health rirvetion associated with the use of electronic cigarettes associate with the liquids themselves. the research at u.c. riverside, indicates that we shouldn't be just concerned about the are liquids but the devices themselves. >> when you do your experiments in the lab you hope to find something and it all started with one cardomizer. we found burning on the fibers. we kept dissecting and dissecting and found this over and over again. i never thought in a million years i would find this. >> the break through finding is the aerosols the e-cigarettes emit have their own version of secondhand smoke. >> the e-si the e-cigs consequence. instead, there's a battery powered atomizer that heats up a liquid mixture inside. this mixture turns into vapor which the individual i in inhales. >> we found there were metal particles that were found in the fluid as well as coating the fibers. >> these pictures are tin particles from the fluids. so i should be concerned that there

. >> vaping? go to the point earlier, you don't see any confusion between smoking and vaping in this ad or any of your promotions? >> of course there is some confusion, but in order to defeat tobacco and cigarettes, we have to appeal to smokers. >> let me show you another official document from your company, it's on your, i believe on your web site, is it not, as part of what you have called the smoking, lorillard inc. smoking prevention program. do you recognize it? >> no, i don't. i'm here to represent blu, not lorillard, so i'm not sure where that's from. >> it's your parent company, isn't it? >> i don't even know what you're showing, sir. >> well, let me -- can i have one of the staff give it to, and by the way, mr. chairman, could i have all of these documents and the visuals shown by both senator markey and myself and others on the committee made part of the official record? >> [inaudible] >> thank you. do you recognize that document? >> i believe it's from i forget the technical name, but t

baking is very popular here -- vaping is very popular here.i think 40% of the medical marijuana market is in the edible market. it is far more potent. people need to be educated about this and primarily our youth. i will get back to our youth because that is our organization's primary concern. our youth use is very high. and now we are starting to see these studies saying how damaging marijuana is to a developing brain. that is really the concern. have 14, 15, 16-year-olds using this because they think it is medicine, it will help them concentrate, it will help them with depression and anxiety, these are some of the reasons that high schoolers are telling us why they are using marijuana, but it is very confusing for our kids and we have not done an adequate job informing them of the facts and how this is a very harmful product for adolescents, for the developing brain. and people -- and kids really need to stay away from marijuana. that is our main message. host: gina carbone talking about recreational marijuana here to answer your questions.

baking is very popular here -- vaping is very popular here. think 40% of the medical marijuana market is in the edible market. it is far more potent. people need to be educated about this and primarily our youth. i will get back to our youth because that is our organization's primary concern. our youth use is very high. and now we are starting to see these studies saying how damaging marijuana is to a developing brain. that is really the concern. have 14, 15, 16-year-olds using this because they think it is medicine, it will help them concentrate, it will help them with depression and anxiety, these are some of the reasons that high schoolers are telling us why they are using marijuana, but it is very confusing for our kids and we have not done an adequate job informing them of the facts and how this is a very harmful product for adolescents, for the developing brain. and people -- and kids really need to stay away from marijuana. that is our main message. host: gina carbone talking about recreational marijuana here to answer your questions. t

. >>> forget about "vaping" on the golden gate bridge. the bridge district just voted to ban electronic cigarettes yesterday because of complaints. the ban also applies to ferries and the bridge itself. signs will go up and the ban kicks in on september 1. >>> dozens of protestors walked from refinery to refinery today to draw attention to what they call health hazards. [ singing in foreign language ] >> today's 13-mile walk took them from the phillips to the chevron in richmond. their goal is to heighten awareness of what they say are dirty fuel projects that threaten health and climate. >> refinery corridor is also a cancer, asthma, auto-immune disease corridor and a lot of these refineries are -- they have expansion projects in play and they want to bring in more crude by rail. >> the walks were organized by a group of local native american activists and allies. their goal is to influence public support upon a transition to cleaner energy sources. >>> coming up, caught in the act. police hope that this video can help them stop a packag

. >> vape resident has authorized forces --l operations the president has authorized 300 special operationsrces. >> they can help mentor and guide that fusion of intelligence and operations. forces more productive and capable. we have become the best joint .orce that has ever existed >> i wanted to ask you as the former deputy director of the cia about the way this news out of germany where the cia station chief has been thrown out of the country by the german government. it for a station chief in an allied country to be expelled? >> a couple of whites. this sort of thing happens from time to time in the world of espionage. unusual.not strikingly it has happened before. second, i am sure we will get through this. germany and the u.s. are about as close when it comes to allies -- ou can get and >> this is pretty serious. >> it always seemed serious in the moment. we have gotten through this heard of thing before. we share too many interest to let this be a permanent obstacle to our engagement. why do countries do this? on ourdo we have to spy allies? >> why do they spy on us? do not shareall

they saw columns of the army vaping in ears -- advancing in areas it had not been before. it appears that the separatist in control of the center of donetsk are on the back foot. >> absolutely. talking about the crash site, we are hearing that the o.s.c. is cancelling a planned trip to the crash site. this is almost over a weak on since the plane crashed down, killing everyone on board. >> that's right. the o.s.c.e. said they'd try again tomorrow, that the information they had was that it wasn't safe. they have dutch and australian investigators with them. but you're right what is it now, in my opinion, 10 days. difficult circumstances in which to carry out any form of forensic information. and updoubtedly the area has become more dangerous today having said that hundreds of journalists travelled to the site in the past week and a half. they have trampled all over the area and looked at the material. you have to say - i'm not saying that these are easy sirs, but you have to say the international rehabilitation has been tardy. >> the death toll is up to 30. the latest pictu

is this trend of vaping getting out of hand, and are our kids targeted by big tobacco?tion expert joins me with his perspective on e-cigs. easy peacey, how is a pack of marlboroughs easy than e-cigs? >> no actual tobacco on e-cigarettes, it is water vapor flavored with something, one of the biggest concernsers flavoring targeted to kids. names sound like -- gerri: cotton candy, watermelon, you name it. hundreds of new flavors out all the time and the e-cigs smell like that. >> yes, they do, they smell like that. it's targeted to young people. we thought as health provideers that we had a handle on the smoking problem in america, largely due to taxation because the cost of cigarettes. gerri: extraordinary. >> is extraordinary. tobacco companies don't care because they have india and china. gerri: let's get back to e-cigs and not the makers, i'm interested in this product i don't think people understand the downsides of them. you're opposed to e-cigs why? >> smoking anything is a difficult and dangerous thing to do. smoking is something that should be eradicated from the

>>> you can no longer spark up an e-cigarette on golden gate district property that means no more vapingn buses, ferries or the bridge. our media partner the marin independent journal reports that the golden gate board voted yesterday to ban the e-cigs. instead of using tobacco, e-cigarettes heat a liquid nicotine solution creating a vapor inhaled by users. >>> there are a number of summer camps for children on the autism spectrum. but few train them to be junior counselors when they reach the teen years. uc berkeley recreational sports department has a program to help give the teens the tools they need to succeed later on in the workplace. we take a look. >> i tell people to shut up. >> at times victoria has been known to have trouble regulating her words. but it's actually quite common for some kids with add or on the autism spectrum to say and do what they feel. >> you know they told the young camper they're not good at basketball and maybe the camper isn't. but the things we learn as we move into teenaged years is you don't say that to a 7-year-old. >> jennifer started the social ski

in recent years that more and more high school kids have been smoking these devices also known as "vaping." >> there is no reason to have a bubblegum, watermelon ecigarette. it's the 31 flavors of getting kids addicted to nicotine. >> reporter: so this new law is on top of the other new law that they passed back in march which bans the use of ecigarettes right here on county property. michelle? >> kiet, how many retailers is this expected to affect? >> reporter: so we're talking about a kind of a small slice of the pie here. there are only 24 places that sell tobacco products in unincorporated santa clara county. out of those 24, only 9 sell ecigarettes so santa clara county is on the edge of health laws here. they did the same thing with fast food laws. they are doing the same thing now with ecigarettes. live in san jose, kiet do, kpix 5. >> 5:08. >>> san francisco elected officials can no longer have romantic relationships with people they oversee and keep is secret. the employee handbook will require elected officials to report affairs. the change comes after revelations that this man,

that means no for vaping on buses, ferries and the bridge.oard voted to ban e-cigs. they say the ban is aimed at customer comfort, saying some people on buses have been using e-cigarettes, causing other riders to complain. instead of using tobacco, e-cigarettes heat a liquid nicotine solution, creating a vapor inhaled by users. >> there area researchers number of summer camps s for children on the autism spectrum, but few train them to be counsell lores when they reach the teen years. there's asocial skills program that help give the teens the tools they need later on to succeed in the workplace. we take a look. >> i'll tell people to shut up. >> at times victoria has been known to have trouble regulating her words. but it's actually quite common for some kids with add or on the autism spectrum to say and do what they feel. >> they told the young camper they aren't good at basketball and maybe the camper isn't, but the things we learn as we move into teenage years is you don't say that to a seven-year-old. >> jennifer started the social skill

is like i said, this vaping quite a big deal particularly for our young people. it has become very ocular. the -- very popular. and make concentrates are very potent. desperately need this application program that the governor is working on to rollout. we should get a curriculum in our public schools go, to. schools, too. well, the data collection is extremely important. we really haven't been keeping great statistics on marijuana use in terms of people going into the er. they are starting to do it now. but to really create sound public policy, we need accurate data. i would argue that is very important going forward also. host: gina carbone with smart colorado. there is a website if you want to find out more abo on c-span, a discussion on the origins of the universe. an interview with the commander of the international space station. here is a look. >> in the beginning, it was hot, really hot. as the universe expanded, the heat would spread out. it diluted and cooled down. you can calculate how cold it should be today and it is about 2.7 degrees above absolute z