Prescription drugs from illegal Online Pharmacies. A former under cover special agent for the dea joins me now. Robert mazer, is the author of, the infiltrator, a memoir about his life undercover with drug lord Pablo Escobars colombian cartel. We can not show his face for his own protection but he is joining us now from florida. Robert, welcome to the show. Great to have you here. Explain to our viewers a little bit about your career as under cover agent. Sure. I was a federal agent for 2 years. For the greatest portion of that i worked on attacking and identifying commandandcontrol of the colombian cartels and their money launderers. For the all but five years i did that in traditional sense. With search warrants and informants and those types of resources. But, for five years i volunteered to become a longterm under cover agent and to infiltrate the Money Laundering systems of the cartel. So i got the opportunity to do that. And to see how the cartels run firsthand basis. I wound up laundering for purpose of getting evidence needed to indict hundreds of individuals, i functioned as a money launderer for the cartel. Gerri were showing pictures now of lots and lots and lots of cocaine seized by you as you were doing this undercover job. So you know a thing or two about how all of this works. Tell us about the governments charges against fedex. Basically theyre saying that the company conspired to deliver Prescription Drugs for illegal internet pharmacies. How so . Well, they allege that, basically, driven by profit, fedex made decisions to provide Courier Service to some companies they specifically knew were run by individuals who had been indicted. And that were companies that were created to take over the business. That was done by those that were shut down it also claims that it set up a Payment System for, internet Prescription Drug suppliers in a different manner than for any other type of customers to protect themselves they knew full well there was very good possibility that some of these Prescription Drug providers, internet providers, were going to be indicted and shut down. In the past when that had happened they lost a substantial amount of revenue that was due because it was given, services were given out based on credit. Gerri so is this government charge credible to you . You were deep inside the illegal drug industry. Did you see anything happening between fedex and these narcotics drug lords . I liken this to the relationship between International Banks and drug cartels. When i dealt with Senior Management within International Banks they knew that i was representative for the medellin cartel. But they cite ad paper trail and plausible deniability so they could take on the highrisk accounts. An indictment is just an allegation. So this still need to be established in a court of law but the allegation is that similar to the way banks operated in the past where they have taken on highrisk accounts, intentionally knowing they were moving dirty money, in this instance the allegation is that these, that these Courier Service, fedex knew full well they were moving illicit diverted Prescription Drugs. Gerri i can tell you, if youre a regular american trying to find that drugs that dont cost an arm and a leg, seeing fedex might make you think this is legitimate website. Tell us how consumers looking options for buying drugs and want to buy them inexpensively can make sure theyre not buying them from an illegal site . With respect to whether or not somebody is operating illegally, there should be a visit to the doctor. There should be various protocol done before prescription actually gets filled. These companies clearly werent doing that. You have to really look at the heart of this problem. The heart of this problem was created by pharmaceutical companies that created oxycontin and oxycodone drugs, admittedly after having, pled guilty to misleading the public and misleading government agencies, that these drugs were not addictive and that there were certain time release factors incorporated in the drugs, they sold and made billions of dollars high marketing these drugs. What happened . Those people dependent upon opiates,. Users, people who wanted to be abuse painkillers heroin users. They wound up getting these drugs. That is why we had so much of this type of prescription opiate available to the public. And, if you look at the case that was brought against Purdue Pharma in 2007, they admitted that they falsely marketed this that has created explosion much pain killing centers and doctors and that issue painkillers. That weve seen that and certainly very complicated topic, robert. As you go, very quickly tell us what are the risks of these Online Pharmacies to consumers, to real people out there who might want to take some of these drugs, to buy something cheaper. Should they do it . Well, if they have a legitimate prescription and theyre dealing with a company that is verifying that, then that is not an issue. The issue really boils down to whether or not the internet prescription provider is going through the appropriate protocols. So, as long as the consumer has gone to a doctor, this is legitimate prescription, getting them filled in different areas is perfectly legal. Only when those people want these drugs who dont have the right type of prescription seek them that the problem is created gerri consumers can get hurt bying them online from pharmacies telling drugs that are tainted, not what theyre cracked up to be, there are lots of dangers on both side. This is complicated topic. I hope you come back to talk to us more about it. Thank you. Thank you. Gerri wow, interesting stuff, right . Well, another consumer story today you will want to hear about. Amazon launching an all you can read Ebook Subscription Service called, kindle unlimited. For just 9. 99 a month you can read and listen to any book you want practically but is it too good to be true . Here with all you need to know about the service, mashable tech editor. Pete, welcome back to the show. I overstated it. It is not every book in the world, right . Not every book in the world. Not even every book on amazons kindles store. It is about 600,000 books. That is a lot but still not the same three million or so i believe that the kindle store has. It is in the millions. Gerri so only a fraction of what the kindle store has. Here is my real question because i think we all sort of compete to the get red hot book out right now that might be turned into a movie of the week or show up on television, will they have the red hot books . Not all of them. Some of them. You need all publishers to participate if you will have those books and so far several of them are not playing. Harper collins, Simon Schuster they will be in. Gerri those are two big houses. Two big houses. Others are not commenting with a cursory look at titles available, only certain select things are available. Having that said, there are popular books available. Harry potter series. Lord of the rings trilogy. Not like these are knowname books but not be everything you might want. Gerri only a fraction of what the kindle store has. What about newspapers and magazines . Not part of this. They are handled separately. They are available on kindle just for separate prescription fees. Gerri i love this idea. More books the better. Lets all get reading this summer and find extra time to read a good book. How successful will this be . Do you think competitors will follow hard on against them . Its a really good question because basically applying, the netflix model to books. Does it really translate . With netflix you have people already watching tv and movies in their homes and youre kind of, the habit is already there. So that kind of works. With kindle, reading books, people like on average, only spend a few minutes a day actually reading books. I mean certainly there are book manies worms and people who put their read several a month. This will be worth it for them. There is no way to cultivate a habit people arent doing. Hard to see if this will be successful. There are not many other people within the space. It is very hard to get the publisher participation. You have Service Called oyster and scrubbed are both in. They have roughly equivalent number. 400,000 or 500,000 books. Well see. Amazon is big player. If anyone can change things its them. Gerri quick question before you go. Will this put a fire under that big dispute this company has with americas publishers . Because they are constantly fighting with them. Im glad you used word fire, that is actually the name of their, some of their products. Is it going to affect it . I would think so. I think, it is not necessarily going to be antagonizing them because they will be keeping a close eye on this to see how popular it is. One more point i want to make. If you already have a kindle and amazon prime member, you dont really need this. Amazon already has the Amazon Kindle owners lender library. Gerri thats right. It is virtually the same content. About 500,000 books. It is not audio books. Audio books are involved in kindle unlimited, about 2,000. If you already have a kindle and prime you dont need this, just so you know. Gerri interesting details. Pete, thanks for coming on. Have a great weekend. Certainly, my pleasure. Gerri a lot more to come this hour including your voice. Your serves voice is important to us. During the show facebook me or tweet me gerriwillisfbn. I will read your comments. What changes can flyers expect after the shootdown of the malaysian airliner . Did this happen because the airline was flying over a war gerri the tragedy of the Malaysian Airlines crash gives nervous flyers even more reason to be worried tonight. Earlier today president obama condemned the apparent missile strike that brought down the civilian jetliner. Yesterday Malaysian Airlines flight mh17 took off from amsterdam and was shot down over ukraine near the russian border. Nearly 300 innocent lives were taken. Men, women, children, infants, who had nothing to do with the crisis in ukraine. Their deaths are a outrage of unspeakable proportions. How do we know . How do we know if the plane were boarding will fly over a war zone and does that put us at risk . Joining me tonight, mark murphy, a travel expert. Thanks for coming on. Yay. Gerri that is the question. How do i know what flight path my pilot chosen . In many flights youre flying over war zones like afghanistan and other hot spots and syria, place in the middle east. You are doing that but the idea is that faa looks at routes and what is going on the ground and send out notice to airmen if you have to change altitudes and change direction. That is something you know in advance. The what happened this is russianmade missile that can go 75,000 feet in the air, even though they said fly above 35,000 feet which was the notice, it made no difference if Russia Targets a commercial early jetliner. Gerri was that the notice. That was notice from a few days ago. Gerri even if the government was saying would not kept me safe. Absolutely not because of the equipment they used the Missile System. Gerri the pilot has a lost discretion here, r n r at f place. Gerri generally . No. The air Traffic Controllers will up. In fact they were scheduled to fly at 35,000 feet and Ukrainian AirTraffic Controllers brought them down to 33,000. Not that made adid i recognize but they make adjustments country to country. Air Traffic Controllers are handing the plane off as it travels to new space. Theyre literally followed along all the flight path. Gerri thats interesting. There was something the f issued, they called it a notice to airmen . Does that make sense to you . Yay. They let you know if theres a hot spot or something you need to be concerned about. That goes out and that is what a notam was. Gerri this is not american plane. Do they not get notices . They do not. They dont get the notices. They certainly can monitor that stuff. This was under euro control and this was an approved routings by european traffic control. That is the challenge. Gerri nobody thought a missile would fly that far into the air, right . They knew that Missile System was there, the question when you target with that Missile System, youre targeting five minutes beforehand, tracking it and being able to shoot it up to 12 miles. They saw the plane. We dont know what was going on in their heads. Did they think it was ukrainian jet . If so, if so, did they just choose the wrong target. That is really terrible. Gerri apparently the technology with the Weapon System is so complicated that it will choose a target for you. And it will go after larger target and make up its own mind. The devil in the details here, did these people firing this quit, did they have much if any train in shooting weapons . Who knows. That is for the politics of what is happening there. Who are these people fighting on the ground . Are they actually russians . Is this terrorist incident . In my opinion no. Gerri mark, it is interesting. I know a lot of flyers are nervous and industry probably a little worried scratching their chins too because this impacts industry and its profits. Here is what i would say. This is such a crazy incident i feel so bad for malaysia airlines. Gerri and families. Just terrible, terrible for all involved but you have to look at this and say, what is the lakely hood . Youre flying from l. A. To new york. What is the likelihood. Gerri i would have thought the Malaysian Airlines plane wouldnt be shot down. What are the odds . Terrible for those families. My heart goes out to them. Mark, thank you. Thank you. Gerri later in the show, ecigarette makers are pulling out all the stops to target your kid. What you need to know. You see them advertised on tv but do the products really work . Good housekeeping gives us their take on best and worst of their infomercial products. Bacon bowls. Create a better website at squarespace. Com start your free trial today. Im a teacher. Let me tell you what i make. I make learning a privilege. Not a chore. And frustration a tool. Not an obstacle. I make working hard seem easy. And giving up impossible. I make an old subject feel like a fresh thought. And unconventional methods common. Im a teacher. I make more. Zoo i like that, right . Theyre a staple of latenight television, the infomercial. They give us phrases like set it, forget it. Wait, there is more. Brick and Mortar Stores have entire aisles devoted to products as seen on tv. This month you can also say as soon in Good Housekeeping. Rachel rothman is Good Housekeeping institute. She joins us on the willis report with products that work and some best left on the shelf. Good to see you again. Thank you for having me. Gerri have a bunch of products well walk through and tell you what is good, what is bad. You tested them. We vigorously tested these at our research institute. Well let you know which ones work and which one dont. Gerri the first one is the bacon bowl. Yes. Gerri i have my questions. We were dubious as well. We put it to the test it really make as really nice bowl. It is crispy and make it in the microwave and 2 1 2 minutes. Gerri are you going to try this. I tweeted about this im a huge bacon fan. Look as lot smaller but i will try it. Gerri there is a fork there if you want to use the fork. It is bitesized. What do we say . Very crispy and good. Im surprised. Can i keep eating it . Gerri that for you. So good. Bacon lover, we think it is great. 7, shipping and handling. Comes with two. Really great for eggs, salad or ice cream for salty sweet treat. Not my cup of tea but for the bacon lovers. Gerri that is kind of fun. I have my questions. I like the vie dale yaw chopper. This is great in our test. For 20, onions i always cry. This one when you put it in, it wont. May require a little bit of force. This one i dont know where we placed it in, it comes out. I need to push a little bit harder t comes out evenly. You see ones i prepared, it comes out beautifulally. Your eyes will not tear and great for stirfry. We recommend this. Gerri that is interesting. We have the snuggy. Im going to put one on while you tell me about it. Definitely. Gerri hold on to that . So the snuggies, they have been around forever. In our tests they did shrink after multiple washes. People found it comfortable. Is this really something that you need . Exactly. People found the sleeves are a little bit long. So it is comfortable. Gerri like this . Got it. Actually meant to go the opposite way so it is open in the back. Gerri not supposed to be open in the front. I like this. Some people actually wore it like that they preferred it. Otherwise you need a belt to enclose it. I blanket is probably safer bet. Okay, because why . With this one, people found, you see the sleeves are super long. May get in the way if you eat or sleep or do something else. Blanket is probably better option. Gerri now you like a lot of things but you dont like everything. What did you think of this product if. This one definitely help with leaks. But even after multiple layers we put on we found some things were still leaking. You have to put on a layer. It is pretty gerri go ahead. Pretty messy. Gerri supposed to create a seal. Supposed to create a seal. We found it was really messy. It has harsh chemicals. If youre doing it, do it outside. Do it in open areas. Tough let it dry 24 hours before you put another coat on. That is one we pass on. Gerri rachel we have one more product here. So you took the mens version. I will take the womens version. We seen commercials, gone all over this is another one we made a pass on. For 20, 10 shipping and hank lynn stick with normal dumb bell. Gerri you dont like these. We would not recommend. This is 2 1 2 pound. You look heavier one. Youre better off with traditional dumbbells in this case. See this stuff on tv all the time. How many of these products are put on television . When would you say proportion of good products to bad products . In this arena i would say5 of them arent going to live up to all the claims. They tend to be overexaggerated claims. Gerri i see there is Something Like 1200 of them or something . The numbers keep on rising. I look at them, i want to buy it, i want to buy it. I know after testing it not all of them will live up to the claims. Gerri great job, rachel. 75 . Great to see you. Here is our question tonight, do you buy products from infomercials. Go on to gerriwillis. Com and vote. I will give results at end of tonights show. Next, nothing says like summertime like cooking out with your family and friends with a snuggy. Well show you how to make a world class burger. Well feed the people in the plaza here. d you ever learn. To fight without saying a word . Then waltz back into my life like its all gonna be all right dont you know how much it hurts . When we dont talk when we dont touch when it doesnt feel like were even in love it matters to me when i dont know what to say dont know what to do dont know if it really even matters to you how can i make you see it matters to me . When i dont know what to say dont know what to do dont know if it really even matters to you how can i make you see it matters to me . Gerri its friday and on the willis report that means its time to fire up the grill. And today, were making a burger thats going to rock your grill. With me today, the executive chef of the monarch grill in new york city. Super cool stef. Michael great to have you here. Good to be here. Gerri were going to make a super secret sauce to go on the burger. Super secret sauce. Gerri whats in it . Equal parts of dijon mustard. Gerri is this ketchup . Ketchup. Gerri what else . Chili oil here. Were going to whisk that in. Gerri that looks hot. Its got a little heat, blended chilies, pickled jalapenos, roasted red peppers. Gerri pickles jalapenos . Never heard of that. And chopped scallions. Gerri gorgeous. I need to taste it. This is the end product right here. That is good. I want to make that. That looks great. Very simple to make, lot of great flavor. Gerri what else are we going to do . Look at this burger, my friend. I have to point that out. Thats gorgeous. Mango how do we do that . Work over here. A nice ripe mango. Gerri how do you cut those up, theyre so hard . Were going to do that right now. Easy spot to stand it up and we have guidelines here to take the skin off. Gerri then theres a big seed in the middle. We work with half of it here and keep cutting down until you feel the resistance which this one doesnt have too much here. What you would do on this, then you would start going on a little bit of an angle. Gerri what else do we have in the salsa here . The other stuff is chopped red onions, little cilantro, jalapeno peppers. Gerri whats that . Smoked paprika for the corn salad. Lime juice, extra virgin olive oil. Gerri perfect. What do we do next . What would you like to do. Gerri the herbed marinated chicken breast which you pulled out before. It is real simple. A bunch of different herbs. I have golden chives. Gerri do you pound those with like a big hammer . I butterfly them with a knife. Thats good enough. It cooks quickly, great for the summertime. Gerri nice on a grill. Hes got great knife skills. Thank you. Gerri these are just beautiful. Parsley works, basil works. And looks like you put the corn salsa here . The mango on top. All these things are made to go together, you can do them with fish, with pork. Gerri this is great. Mango is a great flavor, a great summertime flavor. When youre cooking for the grill in the summertime. What kind of flavors do you put together . I like to use bright flavors, spice, chilies. Gerri heat . A little lemon and lime and bunch of herbs to keep it bright. Gerri we talked about the corn salad here, right . And you put some of this beautiful cheese in. What is this . This is feta that you put over the top of the corn and the tomatoes and the basil. Gerri is that for flavor . Gives it that smoky . Gives the smokeenes, the aroma of the smoke. I need to ask but the burgers, thats traditional. How long do you cook them, and do you get them so theyre not raw in the middle . I like to cook closer to medium. Depends on the grill and the heat. On the grill, four to five minutes on each side, depending on the heat. Gerri okay, as you bring this altogether, its all about the presentation. What do you do to make sure everybody feels its a special meal and theyre getting Something Different . We just try to make it like this exactly. Like that. Looks nice, not too played with and complicated. Gerri you know what i like to do is have people help me make the meal. It makes them part of the whole thing. Look at the people here, they want to be part of the whole thing. All right, were going to hand out some of this. This side. We have work to do yet. Chef, thank you, absolute pleasure having you here. Nice to be here. Gerri and thanks to home depot that provided us with the grill to make the food. We have great consumer stories this week, stories of empower. And ordinary people doing extraordinary things. We also took a look at best and worst gourmet foods, trying to grab your taste buds attention. Listen to this. We have the avocado ice cream. If you talk about this, ill eat. This is from a product line called magnolia. Avocado is one of the super foods. They put it on subway sandwiches, now can you have it for dessert were seeing avocados in everything, and one of the things that we may now see in the freezer case. Gerri its everywhere, youve got apple streudel drink . Its not apple cider. This is like Peanut Butter only made from cookies. This is called gooey on the inside. They come out with different flavors of cookies. They mush the cookies up, they make them like a Peanut Butter, and i think its pretty good, dont you . On wednesday, we took a look at tricks used by retailers, trying to make you think youre getting a great deal when youre not. Number one, it is the original price of an item is a big fat lie. J. C. Penney had the blender, the original price was 145, sale price was 99. At target and a bunch of other retailers, it was listed for 99 and on sale for 99. Gerri i have one of these, the kitchen aid artis an mixer. If you want to know the real price, good luck. Kohls is selling it for 349 as was home depot and a few others. How do i know what the price should be . Pull up the smartphone, it will scan the barcode and say hey, the price should be this. Gerri also this week, we spoke to the vietnam vet whose story of a trip to lowes went viral. Hes been trying get a new wheelchair from the va for years but took ordinary folks to help him out. We went to lowes to look for fencing and the bolting and the wheelchair and the wheelchair staff. This guy sal, his mother has been in a wheelchair for 30 years and his father is a vietnam veteran had sat me down. He helped me into another chair, and just assured me that everything will be taken care of. It was a swat team. I had nothing to do with it. He came with his box of tools. Gerri you heard from a lot of people. Yes. Gerri after the story went viral. The fact that store breaks down in lowes. The lowes employees fix it gratis, they say thank you. I said thanks for helping me. And they said were honored. Gerri and later this week, ceo of stu leonard stores showed how he turned a personal tragedy into a force to help others. You know a lot about kids and waters. What are you telling people . Why should they be so careful . This time of the year, nice and warm out, parents are out with kids, you are thrilled to have kids around the water. What happened to us, i thought my wife was watching our son and she thought i was watching them, and there was a little bit of miscommunication, and as a result we lost our son to a drowning. We wrote a little book ourselves, we sold 160,000 copies. We dont make any money, they are 4. 95 each. And a free app. Gerri its a cartoon, fun for kids. Ive read it before, ive seen it. You can sing the song . Gerri you sing the song. Dont jump in until you learn to swim, cover your chest with a safe life vest. And i do this with the kids, grownups must watch you in the pool what a terrific guy, and stu leonard, jr. , has raised a Million Dollars turning a true tragedy into something really good. But first were going to feed our people right here with this beautiful food. Take a peek, and then make this young handsome man take the plate. Pass it around. Thumbsup . Thats amazing. Gerri thumbsup . People like it. People like it. [ laughter ] yeah . Gerri okay, the wildly Popular Video game, you heard of it, call of duty black ops 2 is getting unwelcome attention from jail the exdictator of panama Manuel Noriega is suing the video game maker for using his name and likeness and damaging his reputation. How . I dont know does the jail birds case has wings. Well bring in fox news analyst. What is going on here . Im not going to say hes the guy you want to bring home to mother. You cant, hes in jail for murder. To use the exact alias name of pineapple face, i dont know you can get closer to knowing its him. He has list of bad deeds such as murder, drug trafficking, Money Laundering and depicted this character guilty of crime. Gerri what does he want . He wants money. No judge or jury is going to award this guy forget about the law. Gerri forget about the law . Never say that. I got her going. Youre not going to award this guy a penny. He was ousted in 1989, nearly 30 years ago. They have no idea who noriega is, pineapple face. They are saying theyre making money off his name. Gerri nobody knows him. It may just not be kids. Oh, no. We have a force of violence and destruction in our society and its reflective of peoples choices, he is who he is. Gerri its not just kids who play the game. There is an issue of transformative, in other words, if i transform a little bit and i would say in this case that hes going to lose on the transformative theory because its not necessarily gerri my lord, it looks exactly like him. Come on, work with me. Gerri looks exactly like him. People sue because likeness is taken for something that is good and something highlighting them and bring them up. Hes touted as a jerk, as a murderer and all, that why would you want to bring that to the courts attention, thats me, the murdering person there. That may go more to motivation and whether or not it is a likeness or depiction of him. I think one problem, i will say that a lot of states prohibit people from profiting from the crime. If he wins the money, hell know exactly what hes going to do with it. Gerri son of sam law. Thank you for making my point. Bill is talking about son of sam laws, exactly that. You cannot profit from your crime. Hes sitting in jail for murder. This is the second or third jail term. You cant profit off of that. That may be the case as i brought up. However, that doesnt mean he has a case, its not a motivation, its a factual realistic reason for the money. Why not cry crocodile tears for him. Gerri you never know, you never know whos going to show up in these video games. As a matter of fact, we were looking around to see who we might know in video games. Take a look at this picture. The control room is going, what is gerri talking about . [ laughter ]. Oh, no i demand payment, ive been damaged. Looks like a depiction or likeness. Transformative and putting us in a nice light. Gerri and its all players. Lindsay lohan is also in on the game. Lindsay suing, but the nfl makes a ton of doe for that. Lindsay lohan is not going to win this lawsuit. Yeah, it does look like her, it could be a million other blond bim betts in california. There was a real model they used by the name of shelby wielander, they used another model. She cant sue in this case. It looked just like her, they put in the hotel she goes to. Gerri they get paid for this. The nfl guys have a better case than either one. If it wasnt for their notoriety, they wouldnt be selling anything. These people, even Lindsay Lohan has the market on actresses with trouble, nor does noriega have the market on people who do bad things. But the players, if they werent who they were, they wouldnt be selling anything. Gerri im trying to follow your logic. Guys nice job. We packed a lot into, that including pictures of you guys. Thank you. We want to hear from you, we showed you the best and worst infomercial products. Heres what some of you are tweeting me about our poll question . Do you buy products from infomercials. Tim tweets, no way, especially the fancy Kitchen Gadgets guaranteed to make food preparation easier. And a the willis report favorite tweeted this, how on earth anything you would find best without giggling. We found good ones. Still to come, ecigarette makers swear they are not targeting your kids. Why is there the race to make the most appealing ecigs, Chocolate Ice Cream or cotton candy. Heres the consumer gauge with the numbers that matter to you and your wallet. Well be right back. Gerri if you go out to a party or a bar tonight, youll probably see somebody puffing away on an ecigarette. Is this trend of vaping getting out of hand, and are our kids targeted by big tobacco . Addiction expert joins me with his perspective on ecigs. Easy peacey, how is a pack of marlboroughs easy than ecigs . No actual tobacco on ecigarettes, 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 ecigs smell like that. Yes, they do, they smell like that. Its 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 dont care because they have india and china. Gerri lets get back to ecigs and not the makers, im interested in this product i dont think people understand the downsides of them. Youre opposed to ecigs why . Smoking anything is a difficult and dangerous thing to do. Smoking is something that should be eradicated from the culture. We understand thats a fantasy. Gerri that sounds like im being told what to do by big government. Isnt there a better way to stop . Taxation. Gerri you mentioned taxation, social pressure caused so many people to quit. Im in the category, its not nobody. Lets get back to ecigs and what these are and what the dangers might be. One of the things that are frustrating, nobody tested these things to find out what impact its going have on people over the long haul . Right, no longterm studies on them. They havent been around long enough to understand the longterm effects on it. People think they are safer than smoking cigarettes. Gerri are they . Possibly. Nobody knows for sure, there is no empirical evidence to support or deny. That however people think without the tar, and nicotine is a very addictive substance, people will get addicted to these things for sure. On balance it might be less harmful than smoking, its not harmless. Gerri we had poison experts on the show who say if you break open one of these things, the active ingredient is toxic and some kids are getting sick and going to the hospital. Absolutely, without question. That speaks more to the household that theyre in. Any dangerous substance, its up to the individual family to protect small children for sure, whether its a poison or ajax or whatever it is, theyre not safe. I think thats the thing. People think they are harmless, theyre not harmless. No way. Nicotine is a harmful substance. Gerri joe, interesting stuff. You got to come back and talk more about it. Weve got to get more into the substance inside these products. Products. Life an everyday miracle of survival today the future of all life on earth hangs in the balance what happens next depends on us well you done done me and you bet i felt it i tried to be chill but youre so hot that i melted i fell right through the cracks now im trying to get back before the cool done run out ill be giving it my bestest and nothings going to stop me but divine intervention i reckon its again my turn to win some or learn some but i wont hesitate no more, no more it cannot wait, im yours open up your mind and see like me open up your plans and damn youre free youll find that the skysnd yours so please dont, please dont, please don t theres no need to complicate cause our time is short this oh, this oh, this is our fate im yours. Gerri and finally, you know it is amazing to me just how ebullient, how happy and downright optimistic the stock market is right now. Gaza and israel are in flames, a passenger jet shot out of the air by ukrainian rebels. The market doesnt care, the dow index recovered almost all of its losses this week. Its one of the most dangerous geopolitical moments since the financial crisis and stocks are going to the moon. I should count my blessings and so far the terrible events have had no broader impacts yet. And in the meantime say a prayer for the families impacted by both of those events. Thats my 2 cents more. And thats it for tonights the willis report. Thank you for joining us. And dont forget to dvr the show if you cant catch us live. Have a good weekend. Making money with Charles Payne is next. Russia, prorussian separatists and ukraine must adhere to an immediate ceasefire. Evidence must not be tampered with, investigators need to access the crash site and the solemn task of returning those who were lost on board the plane to their loved ones needs to go forward immediately. Hi, everybody, im liz mcdonald in for neil cavuto. 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