. >>> e-cigarettes and vaping are becoming big business.tgomery county wants to tax it. >>> he left his post, and the president was killed. new at 6:30, the d.c. police officer assigned to protect president lincoln 150 years ago tonight. where he was when the fatal shot was fired. >>> there soon could be a new tax on people who use e-cig ritts in montgomery county. we could be talking 30%. >> council members hope it will help them raise money they're not getting from annapolis. as chris gordon reports, some business owners are worried it will cost them. >> reporter: this is vape ink in rockville one of a growing shops in montgomery county that sell everything needed for vaping. >> say if you're getting off of smoking and you go to bleu electronic cigarettes, then you'll probably pay $20 for the setup. you're more than likely not going to like it so you'll go to a vape shop and probably end up buying something like this like a box mod with a rebuildable at miser on top. >> reporter: that costs about $240. but add another $72 in montgomery co

john mentioned vaping and hookah.ou talk about hookah, you are taking in more smoke and doing more harm to your lungs that way. kennedy: there is no tobacco. >> there's not tobacco but other products harm your lungs. they may have different levels of nicotine, but we have a problem with terminology. when you don't have a very set and sound terminology, then you're going to have a lot of hysteria, a lot of -- that's why -- kennedy: like the "new york times" calling e-cigarettes tobacco products, they are not. they have nothing to do with tobacco. >> the cdc calls it that. that's the scandal that put out this thing. when they talk about middle school kids using the tobacco products, it shows they are dumber than a sixth grader. when the sixth graders realize there is not tobacco and they're not dangerous. kennedy: no, and smoking sucks, it doesn't feel good on your body, it's hard to start smoking. >> smoking what? kennedy: smoking cigarettes. it's hard, it's hard to start smoking, it's uncomfortable. >> that's why i th

sometimes referred to as a vape pen, there are three parts to an e-cigarette. the vaporizer -- that's a tiny heating device. there's the battery -- it powers the heating device. and then there's the cartridge. this holds the liquid that is heated, giving off a vapor that looks like smoke. >> an e-cigarette is like a cleaner version of a cigarette. i think it's with water vapor. >> actually, it's not. many experts believe the vapor contains dangerous chemicals including propylene glycol which is often used in antifreeze put in cars. >> right now, the marketplace for e-cigarettes is really the wild, wild west. we don't know what's in the vapor. we don't know what the risks of the vapor are. >> mitch zeller works for the federal government. he says that what we do know is that e-cigarettes contain nicotine. >> no young person should be starting to use any of these products. nicotine is addictive. and nicotine can have adverse effects on brain development and the adolescent brain is still developing. our brains are not fully formed until we're in our 20s. >> i thin

among high schoolers the number of students smoking or vaping e-cigarettes tripled in just one year. doctors warn that little is known about the potential health risks. here's nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: the splashy marketing is designed to lure a younger generation away from traditional cigarettes, but tonight the warning from the cdc is that e-cigarettes contain potentially dangerous chemicals and nicotine that carried their own health risks. >> we don't want to be playing a game of tobacco and nicotine whack-a-mole where we're addressing one type of tobacco product and allowing others to skyrocket. >> reporter: but that's what's happening. traditional cigarette use has dropped to a record low, just 9% among teens, while e-cigarette use has tripled to more than 13% of all teens. 2.5 million people. another 1.5 million smoke hookah pipes. >> i enjoy it a lot more. i think it tastes a lot better. i think the smell is a lot better. >> reporter: ian king used to smoke a pack a day. now he carries bottles of e-cigarette flavors with him. so this is better, you think? >> yeah. i mea

it's not like with cigarettes where you get tars in your lungs because it's a vape. it's vapor. >> rep fda decided to regulate e-cigarette sales to minors but researchers worry that teens may be especially vulnerable. >> the biggest concern is nicotine. nicotine exposure to a developing brain we don't know the impact of that. >> reporter: the nicotine could lure kids into regular tobacco use. but the e-cigarette industry tells nbc news the cdc's attack defies logic. e-cigarettes do not have any tar or any of the chemicals that are in tobacco. researchers admit they don't yet know all the risks and that is the danger. tom costello washington. >>> turning overseas to iraq where a major city is in danger of falling to isis. thousands have reported which lies 70 miles west of baghdad. the u.s.-led coalition is carrying out air strikes in three villages which isis militants overtook yesterday on the edge of ramadi. >>> an update tonight on the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370 still ongoing in the southern indian ocean. today malaysian officials said the sea

to tax e-cigarettes and vape paraphernalia.s sponsored by tox hucker and co-sponsored by all the other council members except one. >> cigarettes are taxed at $2 per pack, smokeless and other tobacco products are taxed at 30% excise tax. we pick the same level for e-cigarettes. >> reporter: if the tax passes -- and it's believed that it will -- it will go into effect on july 1st. would you smoke electronic cigarettes less if there was a 30% tax? >> no. no. because i love vaping and stuff. >> reporter: other vapors say they may purchase the product and paraphernalia outside of montgomery county. >> i'll look for other sources, you know, maybe even go out of state to get the juice or whatever. i mean, it's not hard to get online. >> reporter: that brings up the question, how will the proposed 30% tax affect business? coming up on news4 at 6 we'll hear from the people who make a living selling electronic cigarettes and vaporizers here in montgomery county. chris gordon, news4. >>> well, uber says its service now has a permanent hom

sometimes they've been vaping, and she says why are you relating your -- letting your child do it, and the parent says well it's legal. legal conflates. legal, permissible okay. and that's why when people see something's against the law, most people tend to avoid it. most people are not scoff laws, they tend to avoid it. they're worried about getting in trouble and so on. so it's important to have the law there not just because it's dangerous, but because it sends a signal which most people observe. >> host: yeah. i'm very tomorrow on this because on the one, i think you're absolutely right it does. i was amazed -- i was amazed the first time it happened, i was speaking at a college campus and i was having beers with some kids afterwards at the fraternity or someplace and one of the kids wasn't drinking, and i asked him why. and he, something was shifty about his answer, and eventually after a little cross-examination, i found out he wasn't drinking simply because it was against the law, and he didn't want it on his record. and from my culture, it was very weird, but it was eye-opening

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e cigarette explosion turned vaping in a multi-billion industry and new data shows use among middle andtudents tripled between 2013-14 and they are using some old tricks to get new users hooked and christa has more. >> reporter: matt myers is president for tobacco free kids and spent his career taking down big tobacco and now watching his work unrival. >> a teenager today has not seen the marlboro man or the ad on tv and our concern is the product and how it's being marketed has the potential to undo literally 30 years of progress in reducing tobacco use among america's children. >> no one knows what the health effects are of puffing these things hours a day everyday for 20 years. >> reporter: former new york city health commissioner behind some of the toughest antismoking laws in the country >> we work hard to counter act the cool factor of smoking cigarettes and the concern is if e cigarettes are cool it may spill over and regular tobacco cigarettes will be cool in the future. >> reporter: in lower manhattan they offer dozens of flavors, part of a new phenomenon known as vaping. peter

and all the bill does it doesn't ban any vaping establishments, it doesn't do anything other than, asu said regulate ecigarettes as the tobacco products as they are and not only does the fda say they are a tobacco product and the centers for disease control and the world health organization, the california department of public health but if you look on the packaging of some of these ecigarette manufacturers such as mark tanner or even go to the web site of r.j. reynolds they say they are an innovative digital tobacco product. so everyone recognizes they are tobacco product and as soon as the draft regulations of the fda go into effect in june that will be official. >> mr. connelly should this be regulated? is this a danger to teens? should there be regulations on ecigarettes as you see it? >> well first off, thank you for having me. as far as regulation goes california law already bans the sale of vapor products to minors. one of the first states to do so and fda regulation could be good for public health but unfortunately, the current system set up would benefit big tobacco because t

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. >> we'll now move towards questions around vaping pa i want to remind any colleagues there are flaws let's focus on the monuments how much money we're allocating and we'll need to think of at leadership needs to think about how to have a different detail conversations about the direct programs the assignment of schools and things like that so let's see i think commissioner mendoza-mcdonnell has a question. >> so my quay was regarding what you currently have and what is currently budgeted for so it sounds like you've got a couple of you've been able to add teachers on assignment and an administrator that focused open the quality and support particularly in our zones and then we're adding one point teachers these special assignment for the consequential artist program development i'm curious who you have and would this addition of this person going to focus on the updating of the arts and education master plan. >> thank you, rob daniels i'm the supervisor for the visual department and thank you commissioner and superintendent carranza i don't want to notify the education manager to ans

like the workplace and restaurants but that done seem to be stopping more and more teenagers from vaping. another troubling trend, about 10% of high schoolers using water pipes. we'll be right back. >>> next also nbc "nightly news." here's a preview. >> tonight on nightly news 700 feared lost at sea as a boat carrying migrants capsizeds. an income exclusive the son of tulsa shooting victim eric harris and his mother speak out. a promising new treatment for the deadliest of diseases lung cancer on nightly news. >>> decades after their parents were given away ten baby crocodiles are heading to cuba for a very important mission. zookeepers in stoling home are sending baby crocs to increase cuba's endangered crocodile population. how does this come together? castro gave a pair of krobcrocs to the votes named hillary and castro. the cuba has very few crocodiles remaining, their offsprending sent back and hoping to repopulate cuba's population of crocodiles. >> a big baby. >> so cute until they get big, right. >> came out big. >> that's right. true. all right. how are we doing for the rest of

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the number of students smoking or vaping tripled in just one year. tom costello has more on the risks everyone needs to know about. >> reporter: the splashy marketing is designed to lure a younger generation away from traditional cigarettes. the warning from the cdc is that e-cigarettes contain potentially dangerous chemicals and nicotine that carry their own risks. >> we don't want to be playing a game of whack amole where we're addressing one product and allowing others to skyrocket. >> reporter: but that's what's happening. e-cigarette use has tripled to more than 13% of all teens, 2.5 million people. another 1.5 million smoked hooka pipes. ian used to smoke a pack a day. now he carries e-cigarettes with him. >> this is better? >> it's not like where you get. tar in your lungs because it's vapor. >> reporter: the fda hasn't decided whether to regulate sales to minors but they worry teens may be vulnerable. >> the biggest concern is nicotine to a developing brain. we don't know the impact of that yet. it hasn't been studied long enough. >> reporter

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and scoopy scooby doo, and the statistics to the 90% of smokers fir began smoking -- i'm including vapingas teens and three out or teen smokers continue smoking as adults. the industry understands that it's in childhood, in the teenage years you must secure the addiction, which then has huge consequences for the quality of life of the next generation and huge consequences nor cost of our healthcare system. so this is one of those opportunities to make a dramatic improvement that make a tremendous amount of sense from every direction, and for every month of delay, it's additional americans who are damaged. and it's not just in the smoking. it's also in the poisonings. the poisonings have exploded in the space of time since 2011 until now it's a 14-fold increase in the poisonings because these little things jars look very appealing. they look very appealing and they're labeled juice and they're called gummy bear. must be something good to drink. and do you consider it irresponsible that people are making these things and not putting them in child proof bottles? >> with regards to that, thin

. >> remember the poor man in connecticut out on the road and carbs were swerving around him and vapee front of a convenience store. stepping over the body. >> it's desensitized. i think we are seeing it in america big time and all over the world. >> make a mental note to yourself before you encounter a situation like that that you will be the person who stands up. you have to challenge yourself. >> that's not taught. that's not taught. >> you can teach yourself. we are teaching it right now. >> nobility and good samaritan philosophy isn't taught. it's all about me. me. all right. and now we're going to transition because the same thing is in place with this jodi arias who murders the boyfriend and then tries to make it into a woman's rights batter ited. >> tried to claim he was abusing her. right. now she is sentenced today to life without parole. >> it's a great sentence. >> she dodges the death penalty? >> that's fine there are two juries that tried to gte give her the death penalty. the last one was 111 to 1 in favor of death. they thought the one holdout had an agenda. just reall

and you can get into things like vaping. the democrats want to ban that. but that is a lifestyle issue where people feel threatened by the government. all of the savings in investment vehicles the democrats want to take that away with you. by alerting people one to the fact they really do want to take it away and two you have not got one yet, you can and once you have done it you have a different human being who is saving $2,000 a year. >> host: all of the numbers are big and add up to a lot of people but the current president still managed to get elected twice. how would you explain that? >> guest: when you did have the irs going after the structures being create would the tea party. and two we need -- we have such stronger candidates and by that i mean numbers of stronger candidates. two or three people were running in 2008 and two or three people running in 2012 and the rest were selling books or going on lecture series or auditioning to be presidents. this time we have a collection of people can look you in the eye and say this is why i want to be pres

witnesses say when he was taken into that van, can you see in that vape his legs were dragging.ltimore says that he was able body. he was under his own power because he stepped on the step of the van. but, the driver said he was irate so they stopped at another stop, apparently took him out put him in leg irons and a witness told wbaltv and she saw him basically in her words throw him in that van and another witness says that she saw officers sitting on his back because he was irate. >> why won't the police say what the race of the officers are? >> >> that's a good question. >> baltimore police have got to be forthcoming here. again, we don't want to convict anybody. we want to find out what happened. the more information the better. all right. let's go to another situation which is not nearly as intense but it's very interesting. in atlanta there is a group called children's healthcare. and they want kids not to be chubby. and they're blaming parents if the kids are. roll the tape. >> i can't believe you give the child french fries. >> i know. it's the only thing that will make