mayor bloomberg is expected to sign the bill, which would place the same nonsmoking rules on e-cigarettes as regular cigarettes. but e-cigarette users say the dangers are not the same. here s poppy harlow. reporter: hey there, fredricka. the e-cigarette market is booming, projected to reach $1.8 billion this year with users getting a nicotine fix without smoking. but what exactly is an e-cigarette, and do we really know if they re safe? remember these long-banned cigarette commercials? what cigarette do you smoke, doctor? reporter: they re back on the airwaves, kinda. you know what the most amazing thing about this cigarette is? it feels like the first time i can whip out my blue, not worry about scaring that special someone away. reporter: they re electronic cigarettes, and they ve become nearly as controversial as the real thing. this is how i ended up quitting smoking. reporter: no question about
going on on health care which could be involved in days. or not. but the very power and privileges of basic branches of government. guest: in budget, of course, and where is all the money going to come from that the regulators that washington and even the folks in europe tell us need to fix the problem? that is one my big concerns. everyone has fiscal trouble. but the answer is to throw money at everything and it will be okay? you mention the nicotine fix, the screaming child on the airplane. you are manipulating the markets and they are saying, no, no dice. neil: what do you think the markets are saying going into the summer? i remember summers of great angst in washington, with the watergate period, and the back-and-forth over iran-contra, they were not good summers for the market, and there was a bake constitutional crisis of what the president knew and his
guest: absolutely. the markets are addicted to monetary stimulus. you start today when we had the rumors of the central banks coming to back stop greece and the market rallied 100 points in seven or eight minutes. neil: why do that? we know the history and it is like a nicotine fix. but the nicotine wears off. guest: it is, the picture clearly is of a much bigger than poor mortals like i can understand. i would agree that there is a hangover out here somewhere, a cliff, if you will, that we are going to fall over. or fall off of. i don t know the ultimate end game but in the short term the markets love this stimulus and they want the fed to do another q. 3 and of course it is an election year and can you not help but think that it obviously obama spent this a year ago and
range. i don t think i ve seen that to this magnitude, through any crisis, even around the time of the meltdown three years ago. but having said that, you take what you can get, and right now, we re doing this in large part, not having anything to do with watching it per se, but a particular individual in washington, what he might say at 2:15 today, that is not john boehner, it is not the president of the united states, it is ben bernanke, federal reserve head is going to be talking about things at 2:15 p.m. normally the state of the world remarks tend not to get much press outside of nerds like me but this time, there s talk he might come in, guiding the market, and essentially print a lot of money to calm the savage beast. bill: printing money, is that the answer? i don t, billy. you and i have chatted about this before. yougy the nicotine fix but realize i still have a nicotine fix. so i think wall street collectively hoping that uncle ben rides in and comes