Plans for the state's first tax on e-cigarettes have hit a snag.

The Omaha City Council deciding to delay a vote on the tax raising measure for at least three weeks..

Under the proposal 3 percent would be added to the price of e-cigarettes and other vaping devices.

The tax was created six years ago for cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco.

Backed by the mayor and the president of the city council the tax would add an estimated $1 million to the city's coffers.

The proposed tax comes as 24 states have confirmed 33 deaths blamed on vaping, along with 1,500 vaping-related illnesses or injuries.

Nebraska and Douglas County specifically are part of that list, reporting one death.

Statewide there are 11 reported injuries, with two more cases under investigation.

Five of those confirmed injuries are in Douglas County.