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Incisive coverage of the issues important to vaping. Plus critical debate over the issues and impacts of regulation in both Canada and the U.S.
Nicotine-free vapes. At first glance, they sound like the answer to many of public health’s concerns over vaping. No tobacco. No nicotine. One would think that after all the harping, shaming, and demonization of nicotine, tobacco control and public health would embrace nicotine-free vapes. But after nearly eight years in business, the experience of one American company suggests otherwise.
In this episode of RegWatch, Cyclone Pods founder Conrad Kurth reveals what it’s like to operate a vape company with no tobacco and no nicotine—yet still be lumped in with nicotine vape flavor bans, advertising restrictions, shipping barriers, and relentless demonization.
Is this guilt by association?
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Produced by: Brent Stafford
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The deadliest nicotine products in America remain the easiest to buy, while lower-risk alternatives face the toughest fight for regulatory approval and political acceptance. It’s a striking contrast.
Despite recent progress at the FDA, nicotine pouches remain caught in vaping’s regulatory and political wake. They are inheriting the regulatory paralysis, legislative backlash, and moral panic created by the battle over vaping.
In Part 1 of this three-part RegWatch special series, Laura Leigh Oyler, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for Haypp Group, draws on 17 years in tobacco harm reduction to explain the stakes for adult consumers, responsible retailers, and public health.
Oyler breaks down the FDA’s years-long PMTA delays, its failure to provide pouch-specific guidance, the growth of illicit and counterfeit products, and the landmark modified-risk authorization permitting the claim that using ZYN instead of cigarettes reduces the risk of serious disease. She also warns that tobacco control is already branding nicotine pouches as “the next Juul,” driving fear and misinformation into state legislation.
With more than 1,200 combustible tobacco products authorized since 2020 and millions of Americans still smoking, why do the lowest-risk alternatives continue to face the greatest resistance?
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Released: July 25, 2026
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The FDA says its policy restricting flavors in nicotine vaping products is for the protection of public health. But is it? With a singular focus on youth, the agency ignores tens of millions of adult Americans who still smoke tobacco or have already switched to safer nicotine—while protecting the cigarette industry and pouring fuel on an exploding, billion-dollar illicit vape market.
In this episode of RegWatch, tobacco control expert Clive Bates dismantles FDA’s flavor guidance, the absurd comparative-efficacy standard, and the growing global push to eradicate nicotine rather than reduce smoking.
What happens when the world’s most powerful food and drug regulator becomes untethered from the reality it oversees?
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Released: July 5, 2026
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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After years of lawsuits, court rulings, and regulatory setbacks, the U.S. vaping industry remains locked in battle with the FDA.
In this episode of RegWatch, attorney Greg Troutman breaks down the latest legal fights over FDA’s PMTA process, including the Supreme Court’s Wages & White Lion decision, the agency’s comparative-efficacy standard, and a new challenge to FDA’s enforcement machinery.
After years of litigation and very few wins, what legal arguments remain?
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Released: June 30, 2026
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The U.S. nicotine vaping industry continues to stall as the FDA maintains its de facto ban on flavored vaping products despite recent authorizations while a booming illicit market chokes oxygen from legal trade. With millions of Americans still smoking and millions more relying on safer nicotine alternatives, many observers are left wondering: Where's the outrage?
In this episode of RegWatch, Dr. Mark Tyndall shares his candid observations after attending two of the most influential nicotine conferences in the United States—the American Tobacco and Nicotine Forum and the Nicotine Summit. While regulators struggle to contain a massive illicit market and safer nicotine products remain trapped in regulatory limbo, Tyndall says what struck him most was the lack of urgency among those best positioned to drive change.
Has the U.S. nicotine industry become too comfortable with the status quo?
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Released: June 23, 2026
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For decades, public health framed nicotine as the enemy. It was addictive, dangerous, and likened to heroin or cocaine. But what if that framing, once useful in the fight against smoking, became one of the biggest obstacles to tobacco harm reduction today?
In Part 2 of our special interview with tobacco control veteran Cliff Douglas, we examine the origins of nicotine demonization, the rise of the modern tobacco control movement, and how fear-driven language continues to distort public understanding of safer nicotine products.
From the misuse of terms like “epidemic” and EVALI to the growing push for a nicotine-free world, Douglas argues public health has failed to evolve with the science.
Are nicotine vapes truly a health hazard—or has the framing itself become the danger?
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Released: May 26, 2026
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Recorded on location at Keller and Heckman’s 10th Annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium, RegWatch Briefs features short-form conversations with scientists, regulatory experts, and industry leaders discussing nicotine regulation, tobacco harm reduction, PMTAs, behavioral science, age-gating technology, and next-generation products.
Guest: David J. Ettinger, Regulatory, Public Policy Lawyer, Keller and Heckman LLP- Shanghai, China.
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Released: May 21, 2026
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Recorded on location at Keller and Heckman’s 10th Annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium, RegWatch Briefs features short-form conversations with scientists, regulatory experts, and industry leaders discussing nicotine regulation, tobacco harm reduction, PMTAs, behavioral science, age-gating technology, and next-generation products.
Guest: Gabriel Barnard, Co-Director, CSUR Research & Consultancy.
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Released: May 21, 2026
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Recorded on location at Keller and Heckman’s 10th Annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium, RegWatch Briefs features short-form conversations with scientists, regulatory experts, and industry leaders discussing nicotine regulation, tobacco harm reduction, PMTAs, behavioral science, age-gating technology, and next-generation products.
Guest: Dr. Charlene Liu, President and Chief Scientist, Riskwise Solution LLC.
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Released: May 21, 2026
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Recorded on location at Keller and Heckman’s 10th Annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium, RegWatch Briefs features short-form conversations with scientists, regulatory experts, and industry leaders discussing nicotine regulation, tobacco harm reduction, PMTAs, behavioral science, age-gating technology, and next-generation products.
Guest: Katie Skaggs, Regulatory, Food Policy Lawyer, Keller and Heckman LLP.
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Released: May 20, 2026
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Recorded on location at Keller and Heckman’s 10th Annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium, RegWatch Briefs features short-form conversations with scientists, regulatory experts, and industry leaders discussing nicotine regulation, tobacco harm reduction, PMTAs, behavioral science, age-gating technology, and next-generation products.
Guests: Rick Avila, CEO, Bonguard Naturals, LLC and Dr. Willie McKinney, CEO, Regulatory Science Advisors, LLC.
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Released: May 20, 2026
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Recorded on location at Keller and Heckman’s 10th Annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium, RegWatch Briefs features short-form conversations with scientists, regulatory experts, and industry leaders discussing nicotine regulation, tobacco harm reduction, PMTAs, behavioral science, age-gating technology, and next-generation products.
Guest: Chris Allen, CEO, Broughton Life Sciences.
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Released: May 19, 2026
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Recorded on location at Keller and Heckman’s 10th Annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium, RegWatch Briefs features short-form conversations with scientists, regulatory experts, and industry leaders discussing nicotine regulation, tobacco harm reduction, PMTAs, behavioral science, age-gating technology, and next-generation products.
Guest: Dr. Jessica Zdinak, CEO & Chief Research Officer, Applied Research and Analysis Company LLC.
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Released: May 19, 2026
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Recorded on location at Keller and Heckman’s 10th Annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium, RegWatch Briefs features short-form conversations with scientists, regulatory experts, and industry leaders discussing nicotine regulation, tobacco harm reduction, PMTAs, behavioral science, age-gating technology, and next-generation products.
Guest: Azim Chowdhury, Regulatory, Public Policy Lawyer, Keller and Heckman LLP.
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Released: May 18, 2026
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The FDA’s mandate is to follow the science, but in practice that’s now in question.
According to a Wall Street Journal exclusive, flavored vape products approved by the FDA’s Office of Science were ultimately blocked by the office of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary.
Today on RegWatch, Cliff Douglas, a veteran of America’s tobacco wars, breaks down the conflict, the role of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, and whether science is driving outcomes.
Are blind spots inside the FDA distorting nicotine policy?
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Released: April 29, 2026
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A Wall Street Journal exclusive has raised serious questions about whether the White House and FDA are truly aligned on flavored vape approvals.
The White House is reportedly pushing to allow more flavored vaping products on the market, yet FDA Commissioner Marty Makary blocked the move, preventing the authorization of menthol, mango, and blueberry flavored products from Los Angeles-based vape maker Glas. All this despite the FDA’s own tobacco scientists at the Center for Tobacco Products recommending authorization.
The conflict is hardly surprising. As we’ve reported here on RegWatch, Makary has used derisive language about nicotine vaping, repeating many recycled anti-vaping myths.
Today on RegWatch, Tony Abboud of the Vapor Technology Association breaks down the controversy, the broken PMTA process, and why vague FDA guidance continues to shut American companies out of the legal market.
Is the FDA chief a renegade regulator?
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Released: April 26, 2026
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Canada’s approach to vaping regulation is showing signs of strain. Excise taxes meant to curb smoking are now being applied to nicotine vaping products, driving up prices, shrinking the legal market, and opening the door to illicit trade.
Today on RegWatch, Canadian Vaping Association President Sam Tam breaks down how flavour bans and punitive excise taxes are driving down legal sales, forcing retail closures, increasing cigarette sales, and fueling a rapidly expanding illicit market—even linked to targeted arson attacks on vape shops.
Is this failed policy or a predictable outcome?
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Released: April 15, 2026
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Actions by anti-tobacco harm reduction advocates and organizations are “outrageous” and “disgusting,” says Ethan Nadelmann, legendary drugs harm reduction campaigner. Why are the lessons learned in the fight to end the war on drugs ignored in the battle to end the war on vaping?
Guest: Ethan Nadelmann, Founder & Former Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance / Podcast Host, PSYCHOACTIVE
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Despite extensive regulatory barriers and massive misinformation on relative risk, consumers are transitioning from cigarettes to safer nicotine products at an extraordinary pace. In today’s episode tobacco control policy expert David Sweanor guides us through the remarkable growth of the U.S. vaping market and issues a warning to those who seek to stand in the way.
Guest: David Sweanor, Adj. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa / Tobacco Control Policy Expert
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The FDA recently issued new draft guidance clarifying how the agency evaluates whether a flavored nicotine vaping product is appropriate for the protection of public health. But while the agency says it’s providing clarity, the new framework may do little to change the outcome for the U.S. vaping industry.
In this episode of RegWatch, regulatory attorney Azim Chowdhury breaks down how FDA’s new guidance formalizes a system that places the highest evidentiary burden on flavored nicotine vapes—the very products most favored by adult smokers trying to quit.
Should flavored vapes be forced to outperform tobacco-flavored vapes? Or should the baseline be combustible tobacco?
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Released: March 27, 2026
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The UK’s ban on disposable nicotine vapes demonstrates the many misbeliefs surrounding the “gateway” theory are thriving. But isn’t the theory that youth e-cig use is a gateway to smoking de-bunked? According to Dr. Arielle Selya it is and there’s no room for doubt.
Guest: Dr. Arielle Selya, Behavioural Scientist, PinneyAssociates
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Tobacco control promised bans and restrictions on e-cigarettes and other novel nicotine products for COP10, the Conference of the Parties to the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. But instead, frustrated by a handful of countries calling for a harm reduction approach to tobacco use, the global health regulator punted.
Guests: Lindsey Stroud, Dir. Consumer Center, Taxpayers Protection Alliance & Martin Cullip, Intl. Fellow, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
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Nicotine regulation in the United States has entered a strange phase. The FDA says it’s protecting public health. But in practice, it’s blocking safer nicotine products while leaving deadly cigarettes on the market.
In Part 1 of this RegWatch special, independent scientist Dr. Ian Fearon breaks down the mechanics behind that contradiction. From the overwhelming volume of PMTA applications to the agency’s shifting standards and mass denials, Fearon exposes a regulatory system struggling to keep pace with innovation.
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We examine the so-called “fatal flaw” that blindsided manufacturers, the rise of a massive illicit market, and the irrefutable collapse in youth vaping, even as vaping product availability exploded. So why hasn’t the FDA adjusted course?
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Released: March 17, 2026
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With an estimated 7 million smokers out of a population of 19 million, the Eastern European country of Romania has a lot of work to do to help its citizens quit the deadly habit. Instead, Romania plans to enact a new excise tax that would double the cost of safer nicotine products, like vaping.
Guest: Alex Gogoana, President, ACPAN, Consumer Assoc. of Nicotine Products, Romania
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What happens when ideology meets science? Look at the debate over nicotine vaping products for the answer. Just a decade ago tobacco control made great strides towards eliminating cigarette smoking. But in a bizarre effort to undermine nicotine vapes, public health is now contorting science and pushing people back to smoking.
Guest: Dr. Ian Fearon, Director, Independent Research Scientist
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Where’s the parade for all the people who quit smoking thanks to nicotine vapes? This is the question Janine Timmons wants tobacco control bureaucrats to answer when they gather next month in Panama for the World health Organization’s COP10 conference. She’s afraid attendees will continue to dig for the worst possible excuse to ban vaping, when they should be celebrating its success in helping smokers to quit.
Guest: Janine Timmons, Consumer, Nicotine Vaping Products
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Mexico’s ban on nicotine vaping leaves consumers caught in the crossfire. While the “tobacco wars” narrative is obsolete, it continues to cause damage, says physicist and tobacco harm reduction advocate Dr. Roberto Sussman. While the tobacco industry today is no longer the villain it once was, public health campaigners continue to wage war, striking disruptive technologies like nicotine vapes that provide safe and effective alternatives to combustible tobacco.
Guest: Dr. Roberto Sussman, Sr. Researcher in Theoretical Physics,National University of Mexico / Vaping Advocate, Member of Pro Vapeo Mexico
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A spike in U.S. youth vaping rates back in 2018 sparked a worldwide moral panic over teen vaping. But the so-called “epidemic” was short-lived. In just 4-years, U.S. teen vaping fell over 60% to a historic low in 2023. It’s good news for everyone except those campaigners who profit from panic.
Guest: Michelle Minton, Senior Analyst, Reason Foundation
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Canadian tobacco harm reduction advocate and nicotine vape retailer takes a stand against anti-vaping critics at home while preparing to take on the WHO at the upcoming FCTC COP10, the Conference of the Parties in Panama, this November.
Guest: Maria Papaioannoy-Duic, Vaping Activist, Canada
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Canadian flavour bans were sold as a public health win, but the data says otherwise.
In this episode of RegWatch, economist Dr. Michael Pesko breaks down new research examining the real-world impact of provincial bans on flavoured nicotine vaping products. Using retail sales data from across Canada, Pesko and his co-authors found that nicotine vape sales fell by roughly 30 percent after provincial flavour bans took effect, while cigarette sales rose by nearly 10 percent.
It’s evidence of a substitution effect in action—cutting directly against public health goals.
We also examine Canada’s escalating excise taxes, the growth of illicit markets, and prohibition-style violence targeting vape retailers, reminiscent of dynamics long associated with organized crime.
Is this policy failure, or exactly the outcome economic theory predicts?
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While the United States of America is ground zero for the anti-vaping propaganda and misinformation that poisoned worldwide public perception of vaping, it’s also home to a solid and relentless vaping advocacy community pushing back against the anti-vaping hordes. How are they doing? Find out in this episode of GFN Interviews.
Guest: Allison Boughner, Vice President, American Vapor Manufacturers / Marketing & Communications Director, ECIG Charleston
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There is a particular piece of information you are not supposed to talk about. You certainly can't promote it. And never depend on public health to acknowledge it. What is it? Nicotine is not carcinogenic; when consumed outside of a cigarette, it is benign. Likely no more harmful than caffeine.
According to harm reduction consultant and developmental neurobiologist Charles Gardner, nicotine could have significant health benefits.
Charles A. Gardner, PhD, Consultant, Harm Reduction Strategies / Developmental Neurobiologist
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For decades, tobacco control lectured smokers to quit or die. But when smokers quit using safer nicotine, they were chastised and demonized for doing it the “wrong” way.
That contradiction now defines U.S. nicotine policy. In this episode, tobacco harm reduction advocate Skip Murray responds directly to comments from FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, whose rhetoric dismisses data, elevates anecdote, and recycles long-debunked myths about vaping.
As smoking declines and safer alternatives reshape behavior, tobacco control is digging in. The result is an endgame untethered from evidence, denying the reality of safer nicotine.
What happens when the FDA refuses to acknowledge what we already know?
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Released: February 20, 2026
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There is too much emotion driving public policy on e-cigarettes, says leading tobacco control researcher Dr. Jasjit Ahluwalia. A physician, public health scientist, and professor at Brown University’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Dr. Ahluwalia has deep experience researching health disparities and smoking cessation and nicotine addiction in African-American smokers.
He has been continuously funded by the NIH for 25 years and has published over 400 manuscripts.
Hear his assessment on the efficacy and relative safety of e-cigarettes and other safer nicotine products.
Guest: Dr. Jasjit Ahluwalia, Physician, Public Health Scientist, Prof. Behavioral and Social Sciences & Internal Medicine Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Brown University School of Public Health
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“Shoddy” and “flawed.” That’s how Trump’s FDA Commissioner, Marty Makary, describes the National Youth Tobacco Survey, the CDC’s flagship youth surveillance system and the very dataset the FDA has relied on for more than a decade to justify vaping crackdowns, public panic, and sweeping prohibitionist policy.
The problem? The NYTS no longer shows an epidemic of teen vaping. It shows a collapse. Teen vaping has fallen by more than 60 percent since 2019. And instead of grappling with that reality, the FDA Commissioner has chosen to discard the data entirely, replacing it with anecdote, rumor, and recycled anti-vaping myths.
In this episode of RegWatch, behavioral scientist Dr. Arielle Selya unpacks the Commissioner’s claims. From “popcorn lung,” to the conflation of nicotine vaping with illicit THC products, to the astonishing assertion that principals and doctors “know better” than national surveillance data, the episode exposes a regulator who has fallen prey to the anti-vaping narrative he was supposed to evaluate objectively.
What happens when America’s top health regulator rejects his own evidence base? And what does it mean for tobacco harm reduction, public trust, and the future of nicotine policy?
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Released: February 14, 2026
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Tobacco control has no sympathy for the smoker, says Samrat Chowdhery tobacco harm reduction expert and consumer activist. He says there has to be a more humane way to tackle the tobacco problem and tobacco control needs to start thinking more like drugs control.
Guest: Samrat Chowdhery, Journalist, THR Consumer Activist
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Tobacco harm reduction activist and award-winning African filmmaker discusses unheard narratives around safer nicotine products, smoking cessation, and tobacco control.
Guest: Emmanuel Mwape, Award Winning Filmmaker, THR Activist / K•A•C Global THR Scholar, Zambia
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Editor and co-founder of Drink and Drugs News discusses the difficulties of tackling smoking and how many people working in the drug harm reduction field don’t see it as a problem.
Guest: Claire Brown, Editor & Co-founder, Drink and Drugs News Magazine
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There’s no debate allowed on vaping in Australia, says Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, founding chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association and practicing tobacco treatment specialist. Tobacco control is “impervious to evidence” and quick to cancel anyone who speaks to the positives of vaping.
Guest: Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, Fnd. Chair. Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Assoc. / Academic, Researcher and Vaping Advocate
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America’s tobacco policy has turned self-destructive. Safer nicotine products are demonized and restricted while combustible cigarettes remain widely available.
Watch Part 1 (only on GFN.TV).
In Part 2 of this RegWatch interview, Michelle Minton of the Reason Foundation moves past diagnosis and into consequences.
Minton explains how the FDA’s PMTA regime didn’t merely regulate vaping—it wiped out independent innovation, locked the market in favor of Big Tobacco, and pushed most consumers into a vast illicit supply chain. She breaks down the absurdity of fast-tracking nicotine pouches while leaving vapes in regulatory purgatory, and why a standards-based system was never seriously considered.
From fear-driven decision-making to the refusal to acknowledge historic declines in youth smoking, the outcome is no longer about reducing harm, it’s about expanding control.
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Released: Jan 13, 2026
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Tom Miller has shaped American tobacco policy for more than 40 years. As the longest-serving attorney general in U.S. history and a principal architect of the Master Settlement Agreement, Miller has spent decades fighting Big Tobacco and advancing public health. Now, in Part 2 of a two-part RegWatch and GFN.TV special, he brings his unmatched authority to the most contentious issues in U.S. nicotine regulation.
In this episode, Miller offers a candid, unflinching evaluation of the FDA and the Center for Tobacco Products, scoring their performance on vaping regulation, PMTAs, flavors, enforcement, and the unintended rise of an illicit market. He describes how a broken regulatory framework has left adult consumers underserved, legal businesses at a disadvantage, and policymakers blind to the real-world consequences of their decisions.
Miller also confronts the deep divide inside public health, explaining how tobacco control fractured into prohibitionists and harm reduction advocates.
Is misinformation strengthening the prohibitionist cause?
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Released: Dec 9, 2025
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DAY #5 | Live from Geneva, Switzerland - RegWatch special coverage of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s Good COP 2.0, the tobacco harm reduction counter-conference to the World Health Organization’s COP 11.
Good COP 2.0 unites 37 experts from 22 countries to separate fact from fiction and confront the misinformation shaping global health policy.
Live Streamed: November 21, 2025
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DAY #4 | Live from Geneva, Switzerland - RegWatch special coverage of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s Good COP 2.0, the tobacco harm reduction counter-conference to the World Health Organization’s COP 11.
Good COP 2.0 unites 37 experts from 22 countries to separate fact from fiction and confront the misinformation shaping global health policy.
Live Streamed: November 20, 2025
Time: 8:00 AM CET
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DAY #3 | Live from Geneva, Switzerland - RegWatch special coverage of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s Good COP 2.0, the tobacco harm reduction counter-conference to the World Health Organization’s COP 11.
Live Streamed: November 19, 2025
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DAY #2 | Live from Geneva, Switzerland - RegWatch special coverage of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s Good COP 2.0, the tobacco harm reduction counter-conference to the World Health Organization’s COP 11.
Live Streamed: November 18, 2025
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Live from Geneva, Switzerland - RegWatch special coverage of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s Good COP 2.0, the tobacco harm reduction counter-conference to the World Health Organization’s COP 11.
Good COP 2.0 unites 37 experts from 22 countries to separate fact from fiction and confront the misinformation shaping global health policy.
Live Streamed: November 17, 2025
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As the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) prepares for COP11 in Geneva, its track record of silencing dissent and bending evidence to demonize safer nicotine products stands exposed.
Through tortured data, selective science, and an absolutist anti-nicotine agenda bankrolled by billionaire donors, the FCTC has shifted from a treaty against smoking to a template for exclusionary global health governance—one that ignores evidence, excludes dissenting experts, and punishes nations that embrace harm reduction.
Joining RegWatch to dissect this threat is Dr. Roger Bate, PhD economist, international health policy researcher, and nonresident scholar at the International Center for Law and Economics. Dr. Bate explains how WHO’s hostility to market-driven alternatives isn’t just misguided—it’s dangerous. The organization’s stance fuels illicit markets and cartels, undermines cessation science, emboldens prohibitionists, and replaces public-health pragmatism with billionaire-funded paternalism.
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Released: November 13, 2025
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The World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control convenes COP11 in Geneva this November 17-22—a secretive summit of nearly 200 nations dictating global nicotine policy. But with agenda items fixated on banning vapes and pouches while sidelining combustible tobacco's deadly harms, is the WHO fueling a "nicotine-free" crusade that's dooming millions to smoke?
Joining RegWatch to expose the treaty's radical overreach and preview the Taxpayers Protection Alliance's Good Cop 2.0 is Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance. We unpack the FCTC's anti-industry echo chamber, the push to smear tobacco harm reduction as an industry plot, and why tobacco control's job-security obsession could shatter public trust forever.
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Released: November 12, 2025
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The World Health Organization is waging war on safer nicotine and “the people” are fighting back.
As WHO F.C.T.C. delegates meet behind closed doors in Geneva for COP 11, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance is hosting GOOD COP 2.0—the Conference of the People—a public, science-based counter-conference defending tobacco harm reduction and consumer choice.
Joining RegWatch is David Williams, TPA President and founder of GOOD COP, who shares the personal story behind his mission, his critique of the WHO’s “phony science,” and his warning that Bloomberg-funded prohibitionism is costing lives.
Will bureaucratic fear and moral arrogance win the day? Or can the people fightback?
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Released: November 10, 2025
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Déjà vu in Washington. With Donald J. Trump back in the White House, public health officials, regulators, and anti-vaping activists have renewed their war on vaping — and this time, they may succeed. The FDA’s crackdown on nicotine vapes is intensifying, thousands of vape shops have closed, and vaping advocacy is struggling to survive.
But déjà vu cuts both ways. The movement that once shook Washington with the “We Vape, We Vote” uprising is surging back with one mission: freedom from FDA control.
At the center of this renewed fight is a familiar warrior: Tristan Thompson, Board President of the United Vapers Alliance and Head of The Vaping Legion.
Thompson returns to RegWatch to lay out “The Ask” — the clear, direct demand he believes can unite the movement and force change in Washington.
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Live Streamed: October 23, 2025
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In the largest vaping crackdown in U.S. history, the Department of Justice—working with the FDA and ATF—raided distributors and retailers across the country, seizing 4.7 million products worth $86 million.
Officials called them “illegal Chinese vapes,” but most were American-made e-liquids from legitimate small businesses—many with PMTAs pending at FDA.
So why the deception? And who’s really being protected?
In this episode of RegWatch, Allison Boughner, President of the American Vapor Manufacturers and Content Manager at Mi-Pod, joins Brent Stafford to expose how political optics, media misinformation, and Big Tobacco privilege are crushing independent vapor companies.
They also unpack FDA’s fast-track for nicotine pouches, the collapse of legitimate vape retail, and new court challenges that could shape the future of vaping in America.
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Live Streamed: October 16, 2025
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Public health has crossed the line. In a stunning display of moral inversion, officials and mainstream media now endorse teen smoking as an acceptable way to “quit” vaping.
In this searing RegWatch public statement, Brent Stafford dissects how a decade of fearmongering and misinformation brought us to this moment—where moral panic replaces science and a jihad against nicotine takes precedence over saving lives.
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Released: October 10, 2025
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Donald Trump campaigned on saving vaping. But under his watch, the FDA has seized more products than any previous administration and doubled down on the very anti-nicotine crusade he once promised to stop. In our ten years covering the U.S. Vaping industry never has the future looked so bleak.
Joining us today to unpack the mounting contradictions of Trump’s FDA is Lindsey Stroud, THR policy expert and founder of Tobacco Harm Reduction 101 at thr101.org.
Live Streamed: October 3, 2025
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Youth smoking in the United States has collapsed to historic lows, yet public health remains silent. At the same time, adult smokers are moving in record numbers to safer nicotine products, signaling a profound market shift that regulators struggle to keep pace with.
In this episode of RegWatch, Dr. Chris Junker, Group Head of Life Sciences at British American Tobacco and former VP of Scientific & Regulatory Affairs at Reynolds American, discusses the FDA’s slow-moving PMTA process, the collapse of youth smoking, and the importance of scientific transparency in tobacco harm reduction.
From the unprecedented decline in youth smoking to the missed opportunities in public health, Junker provides a rare insider’s perspective on how science, regulation, and consumer behavior collide in America’s smokeless transition.
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Released: September 27, 2025
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Donald Trump promised to save vaping. Twice. Once during his first term and again before winning the 2024 election. But in 2025, America’s vapers are feeling burned. Instead of delivering on his promise, Trump’s FDA staged the largest vape seizure in U.S. history while fast-tracking Big Tobacco’s nicotine pouches. Flavored vapes remain locked out and independent vaping shut out. It’s betrayal, and it stings.
Joining RegWatch to cut through the smoke is Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and longtime harm-reduction advocate. Cullip dissects FDA’s contradictions, the politics behind the crackdown, and why vapers in the U.S. feel abandoned.
Globally, the World Health Organization is sharpening its knife. Having failed to kill vaping outright, WHO is now going after all nicotine — elevating “nicotine addiction” above combustible harm, a sly corruption of science that effectively declares vapes and pouches more dangerous than smoking itself.
Is there hope? Find out.
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Released: September 18, 2025
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Vaping has long been under attack, smeared by myths and fear-driven campaigns. But now, one of North America’s leading public health physicians has stepped forward with a powerful rebuttal.
In his newly released book Vaping Behind the Smoke and Fear, Dr. Mark Tyndall delivers a rare and authoritative critique of public health’s war on vaping. A veteran of HIV prevention and harm reduction, Tyndall argues vaping is a safer, faster, more effective path away from cigarettes.
Shot on location in Warsaw at the 12th Global Forum on Nicotine, this wide-ranging conversation explores the book’s central themes: how fear-based messaging distorts the science on vaping; how myths like “popcorn lung” and “nicotine harms the developing brain” persist despite the lack of evidence; and how public health agencies and the media weaponized the so-called vaping-related lung illness (EVALI) to mislead the public.
Tyndall warns that with millions of people still smoking, refusing to recommend vaping as a first-line alternative is nothing short of neglect and squanders a historic opportunity to reduce disease and death. For smokers, policymakers, and health professionals alike, Tyndall’s message is clear—the truth about vaping has been buried under fear, and it’s time to set the record straight.
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Released: September 7, 2025
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Tobacco control is all virtue, no restraint. And when it deploys power, it does so as if it holds absolute moral authority: unquestionable, unforgiving, and unshakably certain of its final destination. It doesn’t ask “Does this reduce harm?”
In this RegWatch public statement, we expose the divide between tobacco harm reduction and the ideology driving tobacco control. Moral absolutism rooted in resentment, not science, has shaped a global war on safer nicotine products that smears vaping, discredits researchers, and marginalizes anyone who refuses to walk the path of abstinence.
It was never about tobacco. It was always about control.
In the tobacco control movement, there’s no grace. No nuance. No end in sight.
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Released: July 28, 2025
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We’re entering a period of significant risk in the European Union, warns Peter Beckett. He’s the Brussels-based publisher behind Clearing the Air, a flagship news outlet covering tobacco harm reduction with deep reporting across Europe and growing impact in the UK, North America, and beyond.
In this spontaneous episode of RegWatch, filmed on location at the 2025 Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw, we explore media disinformation, Europe’s looming crackdown, and the war on safer nicotine products—from Bloomberg to Brussels.
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Released: July 15, 2025
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A new study from Philip Morris International reveals that widespread misconceptions about nicotine are undermining tobacco harm reduction in clinical care. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. healthcare professionals, including primary care doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, mistakenly believe that nicotine causes cancer.
In this episode of RegWatch, filmed on location at the 2025 Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw, we unpack the findings with Dr. Pritika Kumar, U.S. Director of Scientific Engagement at Philip Morris International.
We explore why these misconceptions persist, how they impact patient counseling, and what role the FDA could play in helping healthcare providers better understand the continuum of risk across nicotine products.
Dr. Kumar also discusses the science behind PMI’s successful application for a Modified Risk Tobacco Product order for General Snus and IQOS, and what that says about the quality of industry-funded research.
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Released: July 10, 2025
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With all the trade tensions and tariff spats, there’s one U.S. export Europe could do without: the moral panic over vaping. Inexplicably, American-inspired fearmongering over safer nicotine products is reshaping EU policy and threatening tobacco harm reduction the world over.
In this episode of RegWatch, filmed on location at the 2025 Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw, we sit down with Bill Wirtz, senior policy analyst at the Consumer Choice Center and creator of The Fun Police podcast. Wirtz explains how Bloomberg-funded NGOs, WHO-orchestrated pressure campaigns, and “Save the Children” messaging are fueling a crackdown on vaping in Europe and jeopardizing the rights of millions who’ve already quit smoking.
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Released: June 28, 2025
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The U.S. nicotine market is undergoing a historic upheaval, with safer nicotine products poised to outsell cigarettes for the first time ever. But instead of celebration, there is only silence. No fanfare from regulators. No cheers from tobacco control. Just business as usual: bans, moral panic, and an ongoing war on vaping. Why?
In this episode of RegWatch, Dr. Derek Yach pulls back the curtain on a decades-old PR playbook that reshaped global tobacco policy. Yach was instrumental in the development of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the first global treaty aimed at reducing tobacco-related disease and death.
From the birth of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids to the collapse of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, this is the story of how “saving the children” became the moral wedge that redirected regulation, sidelined science, and threw adult smokers under the bus.
System failure wasn’t an accident. It was engineered.
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Released: June 5, 2025
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Over the past decade, tobacco control has waged war on vaping. They have demonized, taxed, restricted, and banned safer nicotine products. They’ve misrepresented science and misinformed the public, all in a misguided effort to eliminate nicotine use entirely.
But U.S. consumers aren’t buying it. They’re rejecting the panic, sidestepping the bans, and switching to nicotine vapes by the millions.
According to Goldman Sachs, sales of smoke-free nicotine products will overtake combustible cigarettes in the U.S. this year. It’s a seismic shift in the nicotine market, and yet public health remains silent.
Joining RegWatch to break down this realignment is Dr. Charles Gardner, a key figure in tobacco harm reduction and a relentless advocate for evidence-based public health. Gardner says the age of smoking is ending and almost nobody knows it.
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Released: May 20, 2025
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In public health, truth is supposed to be sacred. For decades, tobacco control defined and promoted the truth about combustible tobacco: cigarettes kill, nicotine is addictive, and the only path forward is to quit or die. But that truth, once necessary and urgent, has hardened into dogma.
In this revealing episode of RegWatch, Dr. Jeff Willett, a 25-year tobacco control veteran and former senior leader at the American Heart Association and Truth Initiative, confronts what he calls “the dangerous game” being played by some in the tobacco control movement: conflating nicotine with the deadly harms of smoking.
Now serving as Vice President of Strategic Engagement at Global Action to End Smoking, Willett speaks candidly about tobacco control’s unwillingness to recognize the continuum of risk. He tackles head-on the misinformation swirling around safer nicotine products and exposes how tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds are being diverted—from the critical work to end smoking—into state general coffers.
Are governments dependent on tobacco revenue? Find out!
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The FDA’s anti-vaping regime—once thought untouchable—is being dismantled. Mass layoffs, shuttered offices, and the removal of Brian King as Director of the Center for Tobacco Products all signal a massive restructuring the U.S. vaping industry has long called for.
Joining RegWatch to unpack the scope and significance of these unprecedented moves is Tony Abboud, Executive Director of the Vapor Technology Association. We dig into the broken PMTA process, the Supreme Court’s decision in FDA v. Wages and White Lion, and the role of misinformation in shaping nicotine policy.
Along the way, the hypocrisy of a regulatory system that blocked flavored vapes while authorizing hundreds of new cigarettes comes into full view—as does the question of whether President Trump is finally making good on his promise to save vaping.
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Released: April 9, 2025
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Two seismic shocks have rocked the vaping industry. On Tuesday, Brian King—the embattled Director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products—was ousted, signaling a major shake-up at an agency widely blamed for sabotaging tobacco harm reduction. Then today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear FDA v. Wages and White Lion, extinguishing hopes for judicial relief from the FDA’s broken PMTA process.
King’s removal—reportedly part of a broader Trump-led overhaul of federal health leadership—is a pivotal moment. Under his watch, the FDA blocked flavored vaping products, sidelined cessation science, overruled its own Office of Science, and approved hundreds of cigarettes while denying nearly all vapor products. His regulatory stance inflicted lasting damage on small businesses, former smokers, and public trust in the FDA.
Joining RegWatch to break down the implications of both King’s ouster and the SCOTUS decision is Jim McCarthy, President of Counterpoint Strategies and lead communications advisor to the American Vapor Manufacturers (AVM).
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Released: April 2, 2025
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Nicotine doesn’t cause cancer—yet safer nicotine products like vapes and pouches remain under relentless attack. This, despite the role these products play in driving smoking rates to historic lows across the Western world. Why is the war on smoking turning into a war on nicotine?
In this episode, Dr. Jonathan Foulds, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry at Penn State University, joins us to unpack the contradictions at the heart of public health’s approach to nicotine. We discuss the scientific evidence behind vaping and nicotine pouches, the FDA’s inconsistent regulatory decisions, and how misinformation is fueling a war on harm reduction.
Dr. Foulds also shares insights from his new book Treating Addiction to Tobacco and Nicotine Products, and breaks down his recent research showing that even smokers with no plans to quit can benefit from switching to lower-risk nicotine products.
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Released: March 25, 2025
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Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted marketing orders for 20 Zyn flavored nicotine pouch products—the first time the agency has authorized such products. The decision left many in the vaping world stunned—not just by the range of flavors greenlit, from cinnamon and citrus to coffee and peppermint—but by the FDA’s continued foot-dragging on e-cigarette approvals. Why the disparity when both pouches and vapes are considered safer nicotine alternatives?
Joining us to break it all down is Kevin Schroth, J.D., Associate Professor at Rutgers School of Public Health and the Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies. Find out why the FDA’s uneven treatment of these products comes down to a risk-benefit analysis entirely focused on youth. What does this mean for the future of vaping?
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Released: March 10, 2025
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Professor Gerry Stimson, public health social scientist and co-founder of the Global Forum on Nicotine receives the 2023 Michael Russell Award in recognition of a lifetime’s commitment to evidence-based public health interventions. Hear his reaction to the award and thoughts about what’s coming next for GFN and tobacco harm reduction.Guest: Gerry Stimson, Co-founder, Global Forum on Nicotine / Director, Knowledge-Action-Change (KAC) / Emeritus Professor, Imperial College London
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Hear how science drives the development of reduced-risk nicotine products at BAT, one of the world’s largest tobacco companies. And learn how it uses science to help ‘seal the deal’ with regulators.
Guest: Dr. Summer Hanna, VP Scientific Regulatory Engagement, BAT
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Could tobacco control be facing impending irrelevance? It may be the case considering safer nicotine products solve a problem many have spent entire careers trying to fix through blunt force and turning smokers into patients.
Guest: Clive Bates, Tobacco Control Policy Expert, Counterfactual Consulting / Former Dir. of Action on Smoking and Health (UK)
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit targeting Demand Vape, a major distributor of flavored vaping products and an anchor supporter of RegWatch. The lawsuit accuses the company of fueling an illegal market, but critics argue that the real culprit is New York’s prohibitionist policies. RegWatch breaks down the case, exposes the dangers of vaping bans, and responds to this latest attack on harm reduction.
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Released: February 20, 2025
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For many within public health, the war on tobacco is over—and the new enemy is nicotine. It’s an uncomfortable pivot, one that requires ignoring what may be the greatest public health achievement of the century: the collapse of smoking rates across the Western world. Instead of celebrating, tobacco control, regulators, and activists have turned their guns on safer nicotine products—demonizing vaping, banning flavors, and destroying small businesses.
In the U.S., independent vape companies are under siege, and in the UK—once the world’s leader in evidence-based policy—new laws are paving the way for outright prohibition.
Joining us today to break down the lies, bans, politics, and betrayal in the war on nicotine are two of the most prolific voices in tobacco harm reduction: Lindsey Stroud, and Martin Cullip from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance out of Washington, D.C.
Is nicotine control going to win this fight?
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Released: February 11, 2025
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For two years, RegWatch has documented the mounting challenges faced by Ontario’s health service providers—physiotherapists, chiropractors, and massage therapists—who deliver essential rehabilitation treatments to victims of auto accidents. These critical practitioners are nearing a breaking point as outdated reimbursement rates and relentless administrative demands leave them burned out and patients underserved.
In the spring of 2024, the Doug Ford Progressive Conservative government made commitments in Ontario’s budget, promising much-needed relief for health service providers.
Today, we’re joined by Darryl Tempest, CEO of HRC Innovations, for an update on the status of these reforms.
Has the Ford government delivered on its promises?
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Released: January 30, 2025
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Seeds of public health’s war on vaping were planted decades ago during the fight against secondhand smoke. What began as a strategy to combat smoking has evolved into a campaign of deception—one that distorts science, spreads misinformation, and undermines harm reduction.
WATCH PART 1 NOW | Discover how the campaign began and set the stage for this explosive second installment—only on GFN.TV.
Joining us again for Part 2 of our special series is Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor of public health at Tufts University and long-time advocate for tobacco harm reduction. Dr. Siegel traces the origins of this campaign of deception and reveals how it now dominates the FDA and CDC, leading to regulatory failures that demonize vaping, hand control of the industry to Big Tobacco, and fuel a thriving black market.
Why are public health agencies scheming to destroy vaping?
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Released: January 26, 2025
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The future of the U.S. vaping industry hangs in the balance. As Donald Trump prepares to retake the White House, his administration could dismantle FDA red tape and overhaul tobacco harm reduction—or let bureaucracy and big tobacco tighten their grip.
In this episode of RegWatch, Brent Stafford interviews Clive Bates, renowned tobacco control policy expert, to unpack what’s at stake for millions of American vapers.
Should Trump’s team reform the system—or burn it all down?
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Released: January 11, 2025
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REWIND: Hear how a once skeptical drug policy advocate became convinced about the power of nicotine vapes to help make positive changes in the lives of the vulnerable.
Guest: David Mackintosh, Director Operations, Knowledge Action Change / Drug Policy, Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocate
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Tobacco use in U.S. prisons is akin to air, it’s ubiquitous. And like air, for the vast majority of the incarcerated the need to inhale tobacco smoke approaches desperation. Would providing access to nicotine vaping products fix the craving and maybe save lives? Find out in this interview with health and behaviour researcher Dr. Cheryl K. Olson.
Guest: Cheryl K. Olson MPH, ScD, Health and Behavior Researcher, Behaviour Science Advisor, McKinney RSA / Public Health Columnist, Tobacco Reporter
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Get the inside scoop on the speakers and presentations at GFN23 with Jessica Harding, program director of the Global Forum on Nicotine 2023.
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REWIND: Scientists find stark differences between smoke and vapor in chemistry and impact on the human body. What are they? *Guest: Dr. Marina Murphy, Director of Scientific and Medical Affairs, ANDS / Former Head of Scientific Media Relations, British American Tobacco
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The tobacco industry is beginning to take decisive steps toward reducing the harms associated with combustible tobacco use, not by engineering a "safer cigarette" but by transforming their businesses to reduced-risk products such as vaping, oral tobacco, and heat-not-burn. In today's interview, we discuss the Tobacco Transformation Index, a tool that measures tobacco companies' progress toward a smoke-free world.
Guest: David Janazzo, Int. Co-President, Foundation for Smoke-Free World / Program Officer, Tobacco Transformation Index
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Are tobacco companies sold on the science supporting harm reduction? It seems the answer is yes. And learn why from the former Head of Scientific Collaboration & Communication at British American Tobacco.
Guest: Sarah Cooney, Scientist & Science Communicator / Former Head of Scientific Collaboration & Communication British American Tobacco / Director, Cooney Scientific Limited
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Meet the legendary Polish vaping activist and organic chemist who wrote the e-book and blogs that helped usher in the era of vaping in Poland.
Guest: Mirek Dworniczak, Organic Chemist / Free Lance Journalist / Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocate
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REWIND: Anti-vaping zealots have another notch in their belt as lawmakers in Taiwan passed an outright ban on nicotine vaping products. What drove the government of Taiwan to adopt such draconian measures? Find out in our interview with Danny Wang from the Taiwan Tobacco Harm Reduction Association.
Guest: Danny (Yu-Yang) Wang, President, TTHRA Taiwan Tobacco Harm Reduction Association / Owner, VAPE Taiwan
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For some institutions, banning tobacco products poses significant risks—none greater than when a prison system goes smoke-free. Joining us today to talk about tobacco harm reduction in the Scottish Prison Service and the popularity of nicotine vapes in prison is Michael Stoney, governor of HMP Barlinnie.
Guest: Michael Stoney, Prison Governor, HMP Barlinnie, Scottish Prison Service
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Tobacco harm reduction is a concept never discussed in prison, despite the toll smoking takes on inmates’ health and the lack of safer alternatives behind bars. But for those exiting the prison system, they find a new freedom in the plethora of safer nicotine options, including vaping, which offer a path to better health and control over their finances and well-being.
Guest: Dr. Christy Perez, Journalist, Theologian (aka C. Dreams) / Contributing Writer, Filter
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Top tobacco industry stock analyst says the pivot to tobacco harm reduction products is real and could potentially replace traditional combustible cigarette revenue entirely.
Guest: Jonathan Fell, Tobacco Industry Analyst / Fmr. Partner & Co-founder, Ash Park Capital
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Today, the U.S. vaping industry finally had its day before the United States Supreme Court. Eric Heyer, the attorney representing Triton Distribution and Vapetasia, argued that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration moved the goalposts in its evaluation of nicotine vaping products under the agency’s PMTA process.
In this episode of RegWatch, we bring you key moments from today’s landmark Supreme Court session and critical reactions from vape industry attorney Greg Troutman and Jim McCarthy of the American Vapor Manufacturers Association.
Is the Supreme Court ready to back vaping?
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Released: December 2, 2024
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As reported by Politico, President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that Dr. Janette Nesheiwat is his choice to serve as Surgeon General in his new administration.
Dr. Nesheiwat is a Fox News medical contributor and currently serves as medical director at CityMD, a network of urgent care centers in New York and New Jersey.
“Dr. Nesheiwat is a fierce advocate and strong communicator for preventive medicine and public health,” Trump said in a statement. “She is committed to ensuring that Americans have access to affordable, quality healthcare and believes in empowering individuals to take charge of their health to live longer, healthier lives.”
But is Dr. Nesheiwat the right choice for vaping advocates? In 2019, as part of her role at Fox News, she issued a stark warning about vaping, linking nicotine e-cigarettes to the outbreak of deadly lung illnesses—a claim later debunked and attributed to black market THC vapes. Her report played a significant role in fueling early fears about vaping’s safety.
RegWatch asks: “Is Trump’s Pick for Surgeon General Good for Vaping?”
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Released: November 24, 2024
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A coalition of anti-smoking special interest groups has brazenly crossed from advocacy into coercion, demanding a nicotine flavor ban that threatens to crush Canada’s $2 billion vaping industry and potentially push many of the country’s 1.9 million adult vapers back to smoking.
In a concerning display of political muscle, these groups—Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, Action on Smoking & Health Canada, and the Quebec Coalition for Tobacco Control—held a press conference in Ottawa this October, delivering an ultimatum to Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks: impose a national flavor ban or resign.
This ultimatum shatters the norms of public health advocacy, raising serious questions about the agenda and ethics behind such pressure tactics.
Joining us today to discuss these troubling developments is Sam Tam, president of the Canadian Vaping Association. Learn more about this unprecedented demand, the implications for Canada’s vaping industry, and how the industry is fighting back.
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Released: November 14, 2024
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With only days remaining in the 2024 U.S. presidential race, it’s crunch time for the candidates—and for nicotine vape consumers and the businesses that drive the U.S. vaping industry. One candidate, former President Donald Trump, announced in September that he "saved vaping" in 2019 and vows to do it again if elected to a second term. Yet, some remain unconvinced, given Trump’s mixed record on vaping.
In contrast, Vice President Kamala Harris has no personal track record on vaping, but the Democratic Party certainly does—and much of it is concerning for the industry. Flavor bans, teen vaping hysteria, misinformation, and distorted science have characterized the Democratic stance on vaping. Would a Harris presidency lead to a turnaround in the party and potentially at the FDA?
Joining us today to unpack the promises and pitfalls of each candidate is Tony Abboud, Executive Director of the Vapor Technology Association.
Will the next U.S. president save vaping?
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Released: October 30, 2024
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Prohibition haunts the U.S. vaping industry, putting millions of lives at risk. Beyond the flavor bans and moral panics, the most damaging restriction is the FDA’s sweeping ban on speech. U.S. vape manufacturers and retailers are legally forbidden from sharing essential truths about nicotine vaping products—that they’re vastly safer than cigarettes and can help people quit. The FDA itself admits these facts yet forbids the industry from sharing them.
Joining us today to discuss groundbreaking litigation to overturn the FDA’s commercial speech restrictions is Jim McCarthy, President of Counterpoint Strategies and agency of record for American Vapor Manufacturers. The goal? To secure the right to tell the truth about vaping.
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Released: October 26, 2024
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It’s surprising to learn that the largest food companies in the world were once owned by big tobacco. During the 1980s through the early 2000s, tobacco giants Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds acquired and operated Kraft, General Foods, and Nabisco, generating billions in revenue from well-known brands like Oreo cookies, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, and Lunchables.
When big tobacco controlled these food giants, rates of obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related diseases surged across the West. This has led many to ask: Did big tobacco apply its expertise in making cigarettes more addictive to the engineering of processed foods?
Joining us today to explore this question is Dr. Tera Fazzino, Associate Director of the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment at the University of Kansas. Her ground-breaking research into “hyper-palatable” foods sheds light on how big tobacco may have spoiled the American food supply.
Did big tobacco make food addictive?
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Released: October 11, 2024
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British American Tobacco is one of the oldest and largest of the world's tobacco companies. But they are also among the most innovative. Through its U.S. subsidiary, R.J. Reynolds, BAT was the first to receive marketing authorization from the FDA through the PMTA process for the Vuse Solo e-cigarette and tobacco-flavored e-liquid pods. This marked a significant milestone for the industry.
Joining us today to discuss the challenges of the FDA’s PMTA process, the importance of science, and the contentious battle over THR is Elaine Round, the Group Head of Life Sciences at BAT. Hear about BAT’s commitment to tobacco harm reduction and concerns over misperceptions of harm.
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Released: September 29, 2024
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The U.S. vaping industry faces a pivotal moment as the Supreme Court prepares to review a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision. This ruling overturned FDA Marketing Denial Orders, including those affecting Triton Vapes LLC, seeking authorization to sell flavored nicotine vaping products.
A favorable ruling could not only overturn these denials but also potentially unravel the FDA’s authority over vape sales entirely.
Today, attorney and long-time vaping advocate Greg Troutman joins us to analyze this critical SCOTUS hearing. Could this be the end of the vaping industry’s relentless regulatory battle?
Discover the answers, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.
Released: September 21, 2024
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This groundbreaking network television investigation was the first to expose how tobacco companies were deliberately increasing nicotine levels to make cigarettes more addictive. The revelations aired on ABC’s ‘DayOne’ news magazine on February 28, 1994, followed by a second episode on March 7, 1994.
Now, digitally remastered and presented here for the first time together in an exclusive showing supported by Demand Vape, RegWatch brings you both parts of this pivotal investigation. Viewers will recognize several key figures who join us as guests on our show.
Don’t miss the chance to revisit the evidence that forced Big Tobacco to its knees and inadvertently ignited the war on nicotine.
Released: August 27, 2024
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Industry funding taints all science, research, and tobacco harm reduction advocacy, no matter how stringent the firewalls or how far the funding is removed. This criticism is a convenient argument for detractors of safer nicotine products to deny the truth about nicotine and relative risk.
Joining us today to unpack the dangers and consequences of dismissing the truth about tobacco harm reduction is Clifford E. Douglas, President and CEO of Global Action to End Smoking.
Has public understanding about safer nicotine products been shortchanged?
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Released: August 19, 2024
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Join Brent Stafford of RegWatch as he hosts an engaging panel with renowned harm reduction advocates from Australia, the UK, and Canada. In this lively discussion, our experts tackle critical issues facing Commonwealth countries.
Featuring Fiona Patten, Martin Cullip, and Maria Papaioannoy, this conversation dives deep into the contradictions and complexities of harm reduction strategies in the Commonwealth. Don't miss their insightful perspectives and thought-provoking debate on the future of tobacco control and vaping regulations.
Live Broadcast: June 13, 2024
Released on RegWatch: August 13, 2024
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It would be a terrible irony if not for the fact that it appears deliberate. FDA’s regulation of the U.S. vaping industry not only delivers big tobacco a de facto monopoly on the legal sale of vaping products, but it also grants them a monopoly on harm reduction. Yet it decries “tobacco harm reduction” as an “industry term.”
Joining us today to dissect this disturbing paradox is eminent scientist and cardiologist Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos. This interview was shot on location in Warsaw, Poland, at the Global Forum on Nicotine.
Is tobacco control irresponsible?
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Released: August 1, 2024
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Over the past decade, how many people have been chided, misled, bullied, or driven away from considering reduced-risk nicotine products as a safer alternative to combustible tobacco? It’s a difficult question with a stark answer.
Joining us for part two of our special two-part edition of RegWatch is former NJOY exec Jeffrey Weiss. Weiss's tenure at NJOY was significant and consequential, serving on the board, as general counsel, and during the tumultuous years as interim president. His time at NJOY concluded with the Altria purchase in 2023.
Are tobacco control policies putting lives at stake?
Find out!
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Released: July 18, 2024
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NJOY will be the first company to have flavored e-cigarette products legally sold on the U.S. market. The decision came late last week when the U.S. FDA announced it had issued marketing granted orders to NJOY LLC for four menthol-flavored e-cigarette products under the PMTA pathway.
It’s the first time the FDA has authorized a non-tobacco flavored e-cigarette product.
Joining us today for a special two-part edition of RegWatch is former NJOY exec Jeffrey Weiss, whose tenure at NJOY was significant and consequential. Weiss served on the board, as general counsel, and during the tumultuous years as interim president. His time at NJOY ended with the completion of the Altria purchase in 2023.
What prompted the FDA to break with its de facto ban on flavors? What was tobacco-control’s reaction to the news? And could more flavored products be authorized soon?
Find out, and more!
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Released: June 27, 2024
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Despite enduring years of attacks by tobacco control, misinformation, and an onslaught of regulations leading to product restrictions and bans, the U.S. vaping industry continues its remarkable growth.
In 2024, U.S. vaping is expected to exceed $12 billion in sales—not including the black market—making it a goliath in both size and scope.
Joining us today in this episode of RegWatch is Barnaby Page, editorial director at Tamarind Intelligence, a global market research and regulatory analysis firm specialized in the vaping, cannabis, and tobacco sectors via three brands: ECigIntelligence, CannIntelligence, and TobaccoIntelligence.
How many adult vapers are there in the U.S.? What’s the impact of the PMTA process on vape stores?
Find out, and more!
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Released: June 22, 2024
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Often, much of the research on e-cigarettes, nicotine, and youth use appears flawed or even outrageous. According to mainstream media, vaping could be responsible for everything from shrinking testicles and plummeting sperm counts to tooth decay and gum disease.
However, some research could be downright dangerous, making claims that nicotine vapes cause cancer, heart disease, and stroke, and that they are riskier than combustible tobacco.
Joining us today to discuss the ongoing issue of questionable science on safer nicotine products is Dr. Arielle Selya, a behavioral scientist at PinneyAssociates, a U.S.-based firm that provides consulting services on tobacco harm reduction to Juul Labs.
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Released: June 4, 2024
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U.S. President Joe Biden recently awarded the Medal of Freedom to Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul, politician, and philanthropist who’s arguably the most influential anti-vaping advocate in the world. Bloomberg has committed hundreds of millions of dollars to anti-vaping initiatives, fueling widespread misconceptions about vaping and influencing public health policies both in the United States and globally.
Joining us today to explore Bloomberg’s significant impact on the World Health Organization and US vaping policy is Marc Gunther, a seasoned journalist with nearly five decades of experience in covering politics, government, media, and business. Gunther is renowned for his investigative prowess, notably in the influential series “The Great Vape Debate.”
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Released: May 25, 2024
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As the Federal Liberal Government marches inexorably toward a ban on flavors in nicotine vaping products, pushback is growing, and questions about a potential conflict of interest involving Health Minister Mark Holland are being raised.
Joining us today to talk though the nationwide consumer effort to stop the flavour ban is vaping activist Maria Papaioannoy-Duic, founder of Rights 4 Vapers. Hear how you can help defend flavours and learn why Maria thinks Minister Holland is backing the ban.
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Released: May 9, 2024
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As the longest-serving director of the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health and founding Dean of Georgia State University’s School of Public Health, Dr. Michael P. Eriksen is a veteran tobacco control warrior and national leader in the fight to end smoking-related disease and death.
In this episode of RegWatch, we ask Dr. Eriksen about the crucial years when big tobacco was exposed for deceiving the public, tobacco control’s reaction to the explosive popularity of e-cigarettes, the FDA’s current regulation of the U.S. vaping market, and what he thinks about public health’s war on vaping.
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Released: May 2, 2024
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Does the regulator responsible for overseeing tobacco products in the U.S. believe in the practice of tobacco harm reduction? According to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, the answer is a resounding no. Appearing before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Califf repeatedly dismissed THR as an “industry term” and refused to answer questions on the topic.
Joining us today to discuss the ramifications of the commissioner’s testimony is Tony Abboud, executive director of the Vapor Technology Association. We review informed questioning by U.S. House Reps and take a deep dive into problematic responses by the commissioner.
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Released: April 21, 2024
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After enduring ten years of frozen fees and grappling with mountains of bureaucratic red tape, Ontario healthcare providers delivering essential rehabilitative care to auto accident victims are finally breathing a sigh of relief. In the 2024 provincial budget, the Doug Ford Progressive Conservative government implemented long-called-for changes to the auto insurance system, aimed at improving patient care by supporting the province's 20,000 physiotherapists, chiropractors, and massage therapists.
Joining us today to discuss the changes are registered physiotherapist Anthony Grande, owner of Focus Physiotherapy, and Dr. Scott Wilson, a Doctor of Chiropractic and the founder and chairman of Physiomed.
Did the Ford government deliver a healthy win?
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Released: April 11, 2024
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Canadian Federal Health Minister Mark Holland is launching a crusade against safer nicotine products, driven by the uncompromising stance of non-profit health groups vehemently opposed to any form of nicotine consumption.
In the minister’s crosshairs, are flavoured nicotine products such as vapes and pouches.
Joining us today to talk through the impacts of a nationwide ban on flavours is Sam Tam, president of the Canadian Vaping Association. Hear how Holland’s flavour ban would threaten the health of over 1.3 million vapers, unravel Canada’s tobacco strategy, and destroy the legal billion-dollar vaping industry.
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Released: March 28, 2024
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In the rush to implement a nationwide flavour ban, Health Canada provided just one opportunity to hear from those most affected: consumers of nicotine vaping products. The chance arose during a concise 45-minute webinar held today on Zoom, featuring a fervent presentation by consumer vaping advocate and Rights 4 Vapers founder, Maria Papaioannoy-Duic.
Today on RegWatch (Live), Maria and consumer vaping advocates Marion Burt and Dave Ball reviewed key moments from the presentation and addressed concerns surrounding the impending flavour ban.
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Michael Bloomberg is the big bad wolf of the U.S. vaping industry. Over the past two decades, he's spent nearly one billion dollars on tobacco control initiatives, funneling hundreds of millions towards misinformation and outright lies about vaping. How could the U.S. vaping industry ever hope to fight back?
Today, we're joined by Jim McCarthy, president of Counterpoint Strategies, a Washington D.C.-based public relations and crisis management firm. Counterpoint Strategies serves as the agency of record for American Vapor Manufacturers (AVM), specializing in hard-hitting, principled pushback against issue activists and the press.
Where do Bloomberg's millions go?
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Released: March 14, 2024
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If the goal is to deny people their rights and to put lives in danger, then flavour bans would be a brilliant strategy. That’s the learned opinion of David Sweanor, a renowned tobacco control policy expert and adjunct professor in the faculty of law at the University of Ottawa.
With a growing number of jurisdictions implementing bans on flavours in nicotine vapour products, Health Canada is joining the fray by reviving its 2021 proposed flavour restrictions and moving quickly to implement a nationwide ban.
In this episode of RegWatch, learn about Canada’s unaccountable and evangelical health non-profits applying pressure on behalf of the ban.
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Released: March 12, 2024
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In the war on vaping, it's a brutally effective attack that's unique to the U.S. marketplace. Known as PMTA registry or directory bills, its new legislation or amendments to existing state law that require manufacturers, distributors, or sellers of nicotine vaping products to attest under penalty of perjury that the products are either authorized for sale by the FDA or are still undergoing the agency's arduous pre-market tobacco application process.
The problem is that the FDA has approved only 23 products out of the 5 million submitted for approval. And all of these products are owned by big tobacco and are only available in tobacco flavors.
Joining us today to discuss the impact of these efforts to take out vaping are vape shop owners Danny Gillis and Chris Lautz, president and vice president of the venerable Tennessee Smoke Free Association.
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Live Streamed: March 7, 2024
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Day 5 of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Good Cop / Bad Cop” counter-conference to COP10 the World Health Organization’s Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control happening Feb 5 to Feb 10 in Panama City, Panama.
Guests: Dr. Riccardo Polosa (Italy), Maria Papaioannoy (Canada) and David Williams, Martin Cullip (TPA)
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Day 4 of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Good Cop / Bad Cop” counter-conference to COP10 the World Health Organization’s Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control happening Feb 5 to Feb 10 in Panama City, Panama.
Guests: Will Godfrey (USA) and David Williams, Martin Cullip (TPA)
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Day 3 of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Good Cop / Bad Cop” counter-conference to COP10 the World Health Organization’s Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control happening Feb 5 to Feb 10 in Panama City, Panama.
Guests: Jeannie Cameron (Uk), Roberto Sussman (Mexico) and David Williams, Martin Cullip (TPA)
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Day 2 of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Good Cop / Bad Cop” counter-conference to COP10 the World Health Organization’s Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control happening Feb 5 to Feb 10 in Panama City, Panama.
Guests: Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos (Greece), Mark Oates (Uk) and David Williams, Martin Cullip (TPA)
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Day 1 of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Good Cop / Bad Cop” counter-conference to COP10 the World Health Organization’s Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control happening Feb 5 to Feb 10 in Panama City, Panama.
Guests: Christopher Snowdon, Kurt Yeo, David Williams and Martin Cullip.
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E-liquid manufacturers are on the frontline in the regulatory battle over nicotine vaping. Since they produce and market the very products at the center of the debate over vaping, their perspective is vital to understanding the powerful impact these products have on people's lives and why they are essential to the global effort to end smoking.
Joining us today in a special episode of RegWatch is Batel Cohen, international brand manager for Monster Vape Labs, part of The Monster Group. Based in Orlando, Florida, and operating in 58 countries, Monster Vape Labs is the largest manufacturer of brand-owned e-liquid in the world.
How does Monster Vape Labs drive international markets while navigating regulatory concerns over flavors, nicotine, and youth use? Find out!
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Despite a steady drumbeat of scientific studies showing nicotine vapes help people switch off smoking, including those with no intention to quit. Many within tobacco control continue to devote resources and press policies to restrict or ban e-cigarettes and other safer nicotine products.
Even good news about the dramatic drop in teen vaping and a massive decline in youth smoking rates seems to have had little impact.
Joining us today to talk through the science and debate over nicotine vaping in the U.S. is Dr. Raymond Niaura, Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at NYU School of Global Public Health where he’s also the Co-Director of the Tobacco Research Lab.
Is it possible tobacco control could one day validate vaping? Find out!
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Released: January 20, 2024
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A U.S. federal appeals court issues a scathing rebuke of FDA’s authorization process for flavored nicotine vaping products, reversing marketing denial orders for two mid-sized vape manufacturers and ordering the regulator to take a fresh look at their PMTA applications. Could this ruling upend the FDA’s de facto ban on nicotine vaping products? Find out in this live edition of RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.
*Guest: Greg Troutman, Attorney, Vaping Advocate, Troutman Law Office, PLLC.
Live Streamed: Thursday, January 11, 2024
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For many years, the primary goal of tobacco control policy was to achieve what public health called the "tobacco endgame," a goal that tobacco control pursued relentlessly. That is until nicotine vapes upended the "quit or die" narrative and swiftly became the number one tool for smoking cessation, an outcome derided by many within public health, leading to a new endgame: the end of nicotine.
Joining us today to talk about public health's pursuit of a nicotine endgame is Clive Bates, tobacco control policy expert and former Director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK). Bates says the purpose behind the moral panic over vaping is to sustain tobacco control's business model, necessitating a pursuit of "new forms of harm."
Is there a future for nicotine? Find out!
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Released: December 19, 2023
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Many critics often accuse the World Health Organization of maintaining an 'obsessive and paranoid secrecy' regarding COP, its Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. However, with the recent postponement of COP10, perhaps it's time to consider adding incompetence to the list of criticisms.
Joining us today for a special live edition of RegWatch to discuss the confusion surrounding the postponement and what we can expect when COP10 convenes in February 2024 are Lindsey Stroud and Martin Cullip from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance in Washington, D.C.
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Streamed Live: November 30, 2023
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Not long ago, many Canadians felt they could trust their governments to protect and promote their physical and mental well-being. It's a promise enshrined in Canada's Health Act and echoed by provincial governments across the land.
But this high-minded ideal is proving a farce with the growing number of provincial bans on flavoured nicotine vaping products and crippling sales taxes and excise duty.
Darryl Tempest, executive director of the Canadian Vaping Association, is joining us today to discuss the impact of Quebec's new flavour ban and the worrying news that Ontario plans to join the federal vaping excise tax program.
Is the Canadian vaping industry at its breaking point?
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Released: November 21, 2023
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Never before has the future of nicotine vaping in Canada looked so perilous. With the province of Quebec now wholly joined with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the Northwest Territories in banning or restricting flavours in nicotine vaping products, hundreds of thousands of Canadians now have little or no access to a vital tool for tobacco harm reduction.
Taxes are also compounding the difficulties for Canadian vapers, first with the federal government and its recently levied excise tax. Now, with the news that Ontario intends to join the federal tax program, thus doubling the excise duty on nicotine vaping products sold in Canada's largest market.
Joining us today to discuss these troubling developments is Ian Irvine, professor of economics at the Department of Economics at Concordia University in Montreal.
Is Canada now hostile territory for nicotine vapers? Find Out!
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Released: November 16, 2023
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What will the U.S. FDA do now? With the release of the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey, it’s now not only certain the so-called “epidemic” of teen vaping is over, but it looks like it was mostly hype in the first place. In the last four years, the teen vaping rate crashed to a historic low, dropping over 60% since its 2019 high.
Joining us today is Tony Abboud, executive director of the Vapor Technology Association. He says the 2023 NYTS data fundamentally undercuts the FDA’s teen vaping narrative, which it has gripped onto for years while pushing the myth that flavors drive youth vaping.
Will the FDA reverse course? Find out!
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Released: November 13, 2023
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With Quebec’s flavour ban on nicotine vaping products now in effect, the clock is ticking on what may become a public health disaster for the province. According to a growing body of research on the impact of flavour bans, sales of combustible cigarettes are likely to grow while safer nicotine vaping products crater. Most alarmingly, where sales of flavoured nicotine products are restricted, teens tend to turn to smoking—destroying the very reason for implementing flavour bans in the first place.
Joining today to discuss Canada’s flavour ban fever is Dr. Michael Pesko, the J. Rhoads Foster Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri. He’s a co-author of new research examining the effects of flavor restrictions on tobacco product sales. The results are troubling, indicating a rise in combustible cigarette sales where flavor bans are implemented.
Do flavour bans cause more harm than good? Find out!
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Released: November 1, 2023
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When using a nicotine vape to quit smoking or to stay quit, flavors are essential. They provide endless opportunities to tailor the vaping experience to personal taste. Without flavors, vaping becomes less viable as a tool to quit smoking. Yet public health and anti-vaping groups push flavor bans and flavor restrictions in jurisdictions across North America. But at what cost?
Joining us in this episode of RegWatch is Dr. Michael Pesko, the J. Rhoads Foster Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri. He’s a co-author of new research examining the effects of flavor restrictions on tobacco product sales. The results are troubling, indicating a rise in combustible cigarette sales where flavor bans are implemented.
Are there unintended consequences of vape taxes and flavor bans? Find out.
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Released: October 27, 2023
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Ontario’s no-fault auto insurance system should provide auto accident victims with injuries deemed to be minor direct access to essential healthcare services such as physio, chiropractic, and massage therapy. But the system comes with a catch that caps available treatment, leaving many without the care they need to heal fully.
Joining us today to help unpack Ontario’s auto insurance system is Peter Lawriw-Bahan, the director of medical-legal services at Pace Law, an Ontario law firm with over with over 40 years of experience representing auto accident victims in the province.
Is the system broken? Find out!
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Released: October 20, 2023
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It's the largest study of its kind in the United States, which shows e-cigarettes are effective in helping smokers to quit—just don't call it "cessation." In many countries, making smoking cessation claims in advertising and marketing is illegal. And, for tobacco control researchers writing funding applications, investigating cessation is a non-starter.
Government health agencies say the evidence to recommend e-cigarettes for smoking cessation is insufficient. But is this truly the case?
Joining us today is the lead author of this ground-breaking study, tobacco control researcher Dr. Matthew Carpenter, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina and co-leader of the cancer control program at Hollings Cancer Center.
Carpenter says, "No matter how we looked at it, those who got the e-cigarette product demonstrated greater abstinence and reduced harm compared to those who didn't."
Is the U.S. primed for a 180 on nicotine vaping? Find out!
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Released: October 7, 2023
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Reporting from the Global Forum on Nicotine 2023 in Warsaw, Poland, RegWatch takes a deep dive into the machinations of tobacco control and its global effort to eradicate nicotine vapes and other safer nicotine products.
Featuring part two* of our interview with journalist and global THR consumer activist Samrat Chowdhery, we unpack the misguided assumption that nicotine vaping advocates are pawns of big tobacco, and we discuss how the United States and other western countries have a responsibility to correct the record on vaping.
Released: September 30, 2023
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It's a nightmare for auto accident victims whose injuries refuse to conform to the prescribed structure set by the Ontario provincial government. Known as the Minor Injury Guideline, the MIG defines and categorizes certain types of auto accident injuries as "minor." Streamlining the claims process, constraining healthcare providers, and limiting compensation available to auto accident victims.
Joining us today to talk about the MIG and the struggle to provide healthcare to auto accident victims is Leslie Tempest, registered physiotherapist and owner of ProActive Rehab in Huntsville, Ontario.
Does Ontario’s auto insurance system treat the injured as square pegs?
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Released: September 13, 2023
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As the decline in adult smoking rates stalls, public health officials in Australia continue to push prohibition as the only solution to stem youth use of nicotine vaping products. But one health expert says the policy is myopic and puts the lives of adult smokers at risk.
Reporting from the Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw, Poland, RegWatch sits down with Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, Founding Chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association and unwavering advocate for nicotine vapes.
Is tobacco control out of control? Find out!
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It's the number one vape brand by market share globally and the first to receive marketing approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration under the agency's PMTA pathway. The brand is Vuse, and its owner, BAT, is one of the largest tobacco companies in the world.
Join us at the Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw, Poland, where RegWatch sits down with Danielle Tower, the Global Head of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs at British American Tobacco. Hear Tower’s take on the pursuit of sound science, the ongoing battle against misinformation, and the company’s mission to transform smokers into vapers.
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Make no mistake, the minions of global public health are coming for your vapes. This November, several thousand unaccountable bureaucrats will meet for COP10, the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. At this meeting, they plan to institute a worldwide ban on open-system devices, create an effective nicotine cap, and redefine smoke to include vapor.
Reporting from the Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw, Poland, RegWatch interviews Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and prolific writer on harm reduction policy.
Is there time to push back? Find out.
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It’s the greatest threat to confront vaping, and likely you may have missed it. Over the past 18 months, a dangerous misinformation campaign has emerged, falsely linking nicotine vapes to fentanyl. The media calls fentanyl-laced nicotine vapes an alarming trend that may be poisoning kids. A possibility that FDA Commissioner Robert Califf recently told Congress was likely only a matter of time.
Joining us today to talk through the details of this threat is Tony Abboud, Executive Director of the Vapor Technology Association.
Could this be another EVALI?
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Victims of auto accidents in the province of Ontario are unprepared for the tangled web of regulations that often lead to an overwhelming struggle to secure essential healthcare for their recovery. Each year auto insurance companies spend more money fighting claims and disputing treatment than it spends on healthcare delivery.
Joining us today to discuss the challenges facing victims of auto accidents is Rhona DesRoches from FAIR, the Fair Association of Victims for Accident Insurance Reform. FAIR is a grassroots non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of victims who have been injured in a motor vehicle accident and have struggled to deal with the auto insurance system in Ontario
Are accident victims more traumatized by the system than the accident itself?
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Released: July 11, 2023 Produced by Brent Stafford
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While the FDA didn’t necessarily create the moral panic over teen vaping, the agency appears to have stoked the fire, doing very little to stop it. There may be no excuses for the FDA’s handling of nicotine vaping products, but regulating in an environment prone to moral panics isn’t easy.
In this episode of RegWatch, Dr. Cheryl K. Olson, health and behavior researcher and behavior science advisor at McKinney Regulatory Science Advisors, discusses FDA’s struggle to follow the science and the parallels she sees between the moral panic over teen vaping and the long-simmering moral panic over violent video games.
Is there reason to be optimistic about FDA regulation?
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Released: June 14, 2023 Produced by Brent Stafford
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When tobacco control’s utopian dream of a nicotine-free society finally fades, what should its replacement be? How about a community brimming with tolerance for recreational nicotine?
According to tobacco control policy expert Clive Bates, the idea is not far-fetched, considering the chaos created by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s failed attempt to regulate nicotine vaping.
Does Bates believe there’s a future for vaping in the United States? Find out!
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Ontario’s system governing insurance coverage for people injured in a motor vehicle accident may be at a breaking point as physiotherapists, chiropractors, and massage therapists struggle to provide care.
Challenges are numerous. Patient care fees have been frozen since 2014 with no relief in sight despite wild inflation. Billing for auto insurance claims force health service providers under the purview of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority or FSRA, the agency also responsible for the insurance industry, where many top FSRA officials come from. And provincial mandates require health service providers to exhaust a patient’s employer-provided extended health care benefits before billing the auto insurance company, leaving many patients surprised and angered.
Joining us today to discuss these challenges is Dr. Scott Wilson, a Doctor of Chiropractic and founder and chairman of Physiomed one of Canada’s largest chains of healthcare clinics.
Who benefits from this overcomplicated and punitive system?
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What does Dr. Sanjay Agrawal, the Chair of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group, think about the “Gateway” theory?
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What does Dr. Sanjay Agrawal, the Chair of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group, think about the province of Quebec’s flavour ban?
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The debate over nicotine vaping polarizes people “even in tobacco control,” says the chief tobacco control expert at the venerable Royal College of Physicians in the UK.
Representing over 40,00 doctors across 80 countries in the world, the RCP leads the way in public health’s mission to end the epidemic of tobacco addiction. But the RCP sits at the center of controversy over vaping since taking an early stand in support of nicotine vapes as a tool for harm reduction.
Joining us today is Dr. Sanjay Agrawal, the National Specialty Adviser for Tobacco Dependency at NHS England, Chair of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group, and Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine.
Hear our frank discussion about the recently announced “Swap the Stop” program, the rationale behind RCP’s support for vaping, Dr. Agrawal’s response to flavour bans, and the gateway theory.
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Released: May 27, 2023
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Could the U.S. vaping industry be on the verge of a breakthrough in its legal battle with the FDA? The prospects are tantalizing. A recent ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court slammed the FDA over its shifting guidance and moving goalposts. Creating what the court says is a likely unlawful de facto ban on flavored nicotine vaping products. The decision is an eye-popper.
Joining us today to talk through developments in the Fifth Circuit and to outline a potential path to the Supreme Court, is attorney and well-known vaping advocate Greg Troutman.
Is the tide turning for vaping? Find out!
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Released: May 12, 2023
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FDA’s single-minded focus on protecting youth from nicotine vaping products over the well-being of adult smokers is finally undergoing severe scrutiny. Recently a panel of Fifth Circuit judges, joining other courts across the country, took FDA to task for what it calls an unlawful de facto ban on flavored e-cigarettes. But the courts are not alone in grilling the agency over its shifting criteria and moving the goalposts for approval of vaping products in the U.S.
Joining us today is Allison Boughner, vice president at American Vapor Manufacturers. This non-profit organization recently hosted a frustrating yet revealing live interview with Dr. Brian King, the new director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products.
How did the Dr. King cross-examination go? Find out!
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Released: May 11, 2023
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The Quebec provincial government’s plan to ban flavours in nicotine vaping products appears out of step with the science on vaping and runs in stark contrast with the UK government’s astonishing new plan to provide 1 million smokers a free vaping starter kit to help smokers in England to quit for good.
Joining us today with reaction from the UK on Quebec’s proposed flavour ban is Louise Ross, a clinical consultant at UK’s National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training, the business development manager for the Smoke Free app, and chair for the New Nicotine Alliance, a registered charity dedicated to promoting issues around tobacco harm reduction.
Is opposition to vaping in Canada getting noticed? Find out!
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Released: May 9, 2023
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Bureaucratic hurdles and fixed service fees could be forcing healthcare professionals in Ontario to shut practices and leave the industry. Physiotherapists, chiropractors, and massage therapists who treat people injured in car accidents have fallen under the control of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority, an Ontario regulator more concerned with promulgating red tape than with patient care.
Joining us today to discuss the challenges facing health service providers in Ontario is Anthony Grande a registered physiotherapist with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy and owner of Focus Physiotherapy a chain of clinics located in the Toronto area.
Could patient care be at risk? Find out!
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The UK’s recently announced “Swap to Stop” program, which provides free vaping starter kits to one million current smokers, is being hailed a massive boon to public health.
Tobacco control policy expert Clive Bates says the program is a pragmatic and constructive intervention with the potential to be catalytic, hopefully tying smokers to vaping in a manner that is self-sustaining over the long term. Bates believes “Swap to Stop” should be emulated in other countries worldwide. The question is: Will it work?
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Quebec Minister of Health Christian Dubé announced a ban on flavours in nicotine vaping products which could go into effect in only 90 days. Under the proposed regulation, all flavoured vapes, except for tobacco flavoured, will be forbidden in the province.
It’s devastating news for the 250,000 nicotine vapers who rely on various flavours to stay smoke-free. And for the hundreds of small business owners and the thousands of workers in Quebec’s vaping industry, the flavour ban amounts to a death sentence for their businesses.
Joining us today to discuss the impact of the Quebec flavour ban is David Levesque, spokesperson for ABVQ, the association for specialty vape shops in Quebec and founding partner of Digital Smoke Supplies.
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Released: April 20, 2023
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In an astonishing announcement, the UK government released details of a new program to cut smoking rates in Britain dramatically. Dubbed ‘Swap to Stop,’ the initiative provides one million current smokers with free vaping starter kits and dedicated behavioral support in what is being called a “world-first.”
Joining us today from England to talk through the new plan is Louise Ross, a clinical consultant at UK’s National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training, the business development manager for the Smoke Free app, and chair for the New Nicotine Alliance, a registered charity dedicated to promoting issues around tobacco harm reduction.
Will “Stop the Swap” finally silence anti-vaping campaigners? Find out!
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Released: April 15, 2023
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No state organization has had more success fending off anti-vaping legislation than the Tennessee Smoke Free Association. Led for years by founder and recently retired president Dimitris Agrafiotis, the group continues to push back on anti-vaping legislation, which, more often than not, is backed by big tobacco.
Joining us today are vape shop owners Danny Gillis and Chris Lautz, president and vice president of the venerable Tennessee Smoke Free Association. Hear how the group stopped a recent RJ Reynolds-pushed bill that would have destroyed vaping in the Volunteer State.
Also, we take a deep dive into the shop-level impact of the FDA’s PMTA process and marketing denial orders. Plus, hear their reactions to an interview Dr. Brian King the new Director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, gave to the American Vapor Manufacturers association last month.
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Released: April 1, 2023
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Last month tobacco control activists and public health professionals from across the country met for the National Conference on Tobacco and Vaping. The conference is the premiere event for tobacco control in Canada. But all are not welcome at this event. According to an Ontario Public Health Association rep, “the conference does not allow those with ties to tobacco or vaping industries to attend.”
One vaping advocate barred from the event is joining us today, Dr. John Oyston, a retired anesthesiologist and former associate professor at the University of Toronto.
Hear his thoughts on why conference organizers should pay more attention to their conflicts with big pharma than worrying about attendees who work on behalf of tobacco harm reduction.
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Released: March 28, 2023
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A reckoning awaits nicotine vapers worldwide this November when several thousand unaccountable bureaucrats meet for COP10, the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
COP10 presents a massive threat to vaping as treaty members consider several new regulations, which include: a ban on open systems, an effective nicotine cap, and a redefinition of smoke to include vapor, putting vaping in the same category as combustible cigarettes.
In this episode of RegWatch, Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and prolific writer on harm reduction policy, walks through the threats COP10 poses to the future of vaping.
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Released: March 13, 2023Produced by Brent Stafford
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Despite mastering harm reduction principles in its historic fight against HIV/AIDS, the South African government willfully ignores tobacco harm reduction as a potent tool in the battle to end smoking related disease and death.
Guests: Dr. Phindile Shangase, Senior Lecturer, University of Free State, K•A•C Global Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholar & Kurt Yeo, Co-founder VSML, Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocate
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Original Airdate: October 6, 2022Posted: March 8, 2023
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On Thursday, the government of Quebec unleashed Armageddon on the 250,000 nicotine vapers in the province by confirming reports that it is reviewing draft legislation to ban flavours. Indeed, a Quebec flavour ban is not only likely but expected!
Joining us today to discuss the impact of Quebec’s War on Vaping and what the industry is doing to fight back is Darryl Tempest, executive director at the Canadian Vaping Association.
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Released: March 4, 2023Produced by Brent Stafford
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Harm reduction warrior shares frustration over public health’s strident refusal to consider nicotine vaping in the fight to end deadly forms of tobacco use.
*Guest: Fiona Patten, Leader of The Reason Party, M.P. for Northern Metropolitan Region, Legislative Council, Parliament of Victoria
Original Airdate: June 9, 2022Posted: March 1, 2023
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Hysteria over vaping is not a by-product of public health’s war on vaping; it’s the intended result. Public health seeks to generate fear and panic to impede logical thinking, from the so-called “epidemic” of teen vaping and “vaping-related lung illness” to the claim that nicotine harms developing brains.
In this special edition of RegWatch, Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and prolific writer on harm reduction policy, provides an intelligent reaction to a litany of panics public health has pushed concerning nicotine vaping products.
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Released: February 24, 2023Produced by Brent Stafford
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Unity. It’s the long sought-for desire of many within vaping advocacy. No more backbiting and griping between groups over strategy and tactics in the fight to save vaping. Only focused and efficient action.
The dream may finally be a reality with the recent announcement of a “strategic alignment” between two powerhouse vaping advocacy groups in the U.S., SFATA, the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association, and the USVA, the United States Vaping Association.
Joining us today to walk through the “unified stance” of the two groups are SFATA president April Meyers and USVA president Travis Pinkerton. Also, Darryl Tempest joins the conversation as SFATA’s strategic advisor and representative from the North American Vapor Alliance.
Could unified forces make a difference?
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Released: February 14, 2023
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Is big tobacco a threat to the nicotine vaping industry? This is an old and touchy question for many vaping advocates. Most assume that at some point, tobacco companies acted deliberately to thwart vaping's rise. Yet today, big tobacco is positioned to drive the future of vaping. The question: Is there room for both?
Joining us today for part two of our interview is Jonathan Fell. For over 30 years, he's covered the tobacco industry in his role as a financial analyst for tobacco stocks.
Produced in partnership with GFN.TV. Part 1 of our interview with Jonathan Fell can be found here: https://youtu.be/VNnO5sN7bik, or look for it on the GFN.TV YouTube channel.
Released: January 29, 2023Produced by Brent Stafford
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What’s holding tobacco harm reduction back? According to Ronald W. Dworkin a medical doctor and political scientist, it’s public health’s penchant for perfecting human beings. Safer nicotine products are in the way of achieving their grand vision.
*Guest: Dr. Ronald W. Dworkin, Anesthesiologist, Political Scientist, Lecturer, George Washington University
Original Airdate: May 26, 2022Posted: January 23, 2023
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Could the war on vaping in the U.S. finally take a turn in favor of tobacco harm reduction? It’s a legitimate question even though the cause has suffered major losses, such as the California flavor ban.
Joining us today to help answer this question is Dimitris Agrafiotis, a.k.a. the VapinGreek. He’s a global advocate for vaping, former executive director of the Tennessee Smoke Free Association, and one of the most well-known advocates in the world of vaping.
Should public health be trusted on vaping?
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Released: January 19, 2023Produced by Brent Stafford
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Earlier this week, fans of Tim Pool and his live YouTube show Timcast IRL may have been shocked when a conversation about obesity and the food pyramid veered into a discussion about vaping that amplified almost every anti-vaping myth and stereotype pushed by public health.
It was an astonishing amount of misinformation.
Joining us today to unpack the Timcast vaping debacle is Dimitris Agrafiotis a.k.a. the VapinGreek. He’s a global advocate for vaping and the former executive director of the Tennessee Smoke Free Association.
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Released: January 15, 2023Produced by Brent Stafford
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Last night on @Timcast @TaylerUSA argued that #vaping is worse than smoking. Hear CDC, FDA, and Bloomberg lies, including fake lung disease #EVALI in these 6.5mins. It was a pile-on. Includes: @IanCrossland @Lukewearechange. Thanks @philthatremains for your common sense.
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Released: January 11, 2022Produced by Brent Stafford
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On Monday, the Reagan-Udall Foundation released its report evaluating the FDA’s tobacco program, and its findings are remarkable, if not shocking. The expert panel cited numerous examples where the agency lacked sufficient strategic planning, useful and timely guidance, and internal leadership on critical issues, such as finding a balance between science and policy.
The Reagan-Udall panel goes as far as to say that FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products has “struggled to function as a regulator in part due to its own policy choices.”
Joining us today to discuss the report is Tony Abboud, Executive Director of the Vapor Technology Association.
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Released: December 20, 2022Produced by Brent Stafford
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It’s blatant, and some think shameful, the degree to which political interference and anti-vaping ideology have hijacked the FDA’s approval process for nicotine vaping products. Recent comments released by the Reagan-Udall Foundation in its review of the FDA and its Center for Tobacco Products prove as much.
Joining us today is Tony Abboud, the Executive Director at the Vapor Technology Association. We take a deep dive into the problems at FDA and CTP. We discuss the industry’s court challenge to California’s flavor ban and its economic impact. And we learn about VTA’s recommendation for dealing with the flood of disposables on the market.
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Released: December 14, 2022Produced by Brent Stafford
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Content creators on YouTube are being forced into a terrible choice either self-mark pro-vaping content as “harmful & dangerous” or face a litany of warnings, restrictions, and inevitable channel strikes. With three strikes, YouTube deletes your entire channel erasing all videos and views. It’s a horrifying choice for content creators dedicated to sharing the virtues of vaping with millions across the world.
Joining us today is top vape YouTuber GrimmGreen who fought off eradication and saved his popular YouTube channel, with 400,000 subscribers and over 80 million video views. Hear the alarming details of what happened and the enormous effort by friends and fans to keep GrimmGreen on YouTube.
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Released: December 6, 2022Produced by Brent Stafford
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Are e-cigarettes effective in helping smokers to quit? It’s one of the most hotly contested questions in the battle over vaping, but an answer may finally be in hand. According to the latest Cochrane Review of Electronic Cigarettes for Smoking Cessation, there is “high-certainty evidence” that nicotine vapes are more effective than traditional nicotine replacement therapies, such as nicotine patches and gum, in helping people to quit smoking.
Dr. Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, associate professor at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and editor at Cochrane Tobacco Review Group, is joining us today to discuss the new evidence.
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Released: November 23, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Public health’s insufferable war on vaping continues its path of destruction for U.S. consumers of nicotine vaping products. Fueled by the moral panic over teen vaping, voters in California passed a statewide flavor ban that’s certain to force some vapers back to smoking while denying current smokers easy access to safer nicotine products which could save lives.
Charles Gardner, executive director of INNCO, joins us to discuss the impact of the California flavor ban, the CDC’s deliberate exaggeration of youth vaping rates, and the shocking revelations from the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s review of the FDA’s PMTA decision-making process.
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Released: November 18, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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According to tobacco control policy expert Clive Bates, Canada’s new excise tax on nicotine vaping products will lead to more smoking, illness, and death. What’s driving Canada’s inexplicable about-turn on vaping?
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Released: November 12, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Hard-hitting columnist and public health analyst reveals motivations and tactics behind the most egregious efforts to destroy vaping.
*Guest: Michelle Minton, Senior Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Original Airdate: May 12, 2022 Posted: November 7, 2022
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The American public health establishment continues its war on vaping while the rest of the world suffers an onslaught of misinformation about potential health risks and benefits.
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In part two of our interview with Dr. Alex Wodak, physician and harm reduction pioneer, we dig deep into public health’s strident opposition to tobacco harm reduction and discuss whether it may change.
Will the war on vaping end?
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Released: October 23, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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The War on Vaping continues unabated, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control states in a group call with anti-vaping lobbyists that the teen vaping “epidemic” is NOT over. And the FDA digs in, refusing to set the record straight with the American public over the perceived risks and harms of vaping.
Regulators and government have created a “chaotic hot mess” in the U.S., says Clive Bates, tobacco control policy expert and former Director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK), in today’s episode of RegWatch. Hear Bates break down the 2022 NYTS youth vaping stats, his call for the CDC to stop its dishonest spin of youth vaping data, and his assessment of the FDA’s failed “authorization regime.”
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Released: October 20, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Medical community must become ‘nicotine literate’ says top UK medical professional
*Guest: Dr. Sudhanshu Patwardhan, Founder, Medical Director, Centre for Health Research and Education
Original Airdate: April 28, 2022 Posted: October 18, 2022
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While combustible tobacco use in the West continues to fall, catastrophe looms in Africa with exploding smoking rates and growing resistance to safer nicotine products.
*Guest: Chimwemwe Ngoma, Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocate, Africa, Assistant Program Manager, Knowledge-Action-Change
Original Airdate: April 14, 2022 Posted: October 3, 2022
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It’s hard to imagine how Canada’s new excise tax on nicotine vaping products won’t drive scores of people back to smoking. When combined with the sales tax, the effective federal tax rate on most vaping products bloats to more than 50 percent over retail.
This massive increase in price pushes vaping products precariously close to the cost of smoking. Smokers lose a prime incentive to quit, and new vapers may abandon their effort and return to smoking.
Ian Irvine, Professor of Economics at Concordia University and Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, is joining us today to discuss the economic and social consequences of the new excise tax. Hear about the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue Canadian vapers are sending to Ottawa and the colossal damage facing the Canadian vaping industry after a half-billion-dollar revenue loss.
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Released: October 14, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration intentionally trying to wreck the U.S. nicotine vaping industry? It's a fair question to ask, considering every regulatory action the FDA has taken toward nicotine vaping products appears myopic and prohibitionist. And these actions are causing significant damage to the lives of people who vape and smoke.
Amanda Wheeler and Greg Conley from the American Vapor Manufacturers Association are joining us to discuss the never-ending saga of the FDA's war on vaping. We take a deep dive into FDA's dysfunctional PMTA process, the damage caused by years of misinformation, the continuing destruction of U.S. vape businesses, and the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey on youth vaping.
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Released: October 8, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Consumers of nicotine vaping products in Canada are grappling with another rise in the cost of living, and this time, increasing costs are not a result of inflation but a new federal excise tax that went into effect on October 1st.
Poor planning and government delays affecting the availability of excise tax stamps and a lack of access to secure warehousing for the importation and stamping of vaping products mark the introduction of the tax, which could lead to massive shortages of nicotine vaping products across the country.
In this episode of RegWatch, the Canadian Vaping Association’s executive director and lead advocate Darryl Tempest provides a complete update on the implementation of the new excise tax. We discuss specific challenges facing Canadian manufacturers, distributors, and retail shop owners as they struggle to keep their businesses open, and nicotine vapes in the hands of adult consumers.
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Released: October 5, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Canada’s new excise tax on nicotine vaping products is days away from implementation, and the ramifications could be disastrous. Excise taxes are known as “sin taxes,” which governments apply to products perceived as either morally suspect, harmful, or costly to society. The goal of a sin tax, after revenue generation, is to reduce use. But regarding vaping, reducing use could mean a return to smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch eminent tobacco control scholars Dr. Kenneth Warner and Cliff Douglas discuss recent research on e-cigarette taxes and why Canada’s new excise tax on vaping could be a public health blunder.
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Released: September 25, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Hard compromises that no one will like is how eminent tobacco control scholar Dr. Kenneth Warner describes some of the recently released recommendations in a new policy paper addressing the struggle over e-cigarettes. The article offers a mix of policy proposals covering critical issues that impact vaping: flavors, taxes, youth use, nicotine, misinformation, and regulatory approval of nicotine vaping products.
In this episode of RegWatch, we take a deep dive into the issues with Dr. Warner and co-author Cliff Douglas, director of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network and former Vice President for Tobacco Control at the American Cancer Society.
Are these compromises one can live with? Find out!
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Released: September 22, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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THR advocates in Asia Pacific find compromise and push back in the battle for safer nicotine products
*Guest: Nancy Loucas, Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocate, CAPHRA, Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates
Original Airdate: March 31, 2022 Posted: September 20, 2022
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There’s no mystery as to why nicotine vaping suffers a dismal reputation. Non-profits and foundations like Bloomberg Philanthropies, Truth Initiative, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the “body part orgs” have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and applied tremendous pressure to misinform the public and influence policymakers regarding the potential harms of vaping.
Veteran reporter Marc Gunther joins us today on RegWatch to discuss the impact of private money in the war on vaping. Gunther has written about politics, government, media, and business for nearly 50 years and is the reporter behind the ground-breaking investigative series “The Great Vape Debate.”
Is private money powering the destruction of vaping?
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Released: September 9, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Is the Canadian government unreasonably attacking the vaping industry?
For years, I’ve been asked by viewers and industry advocates about securing positive media coverage from Rebel News on vaping issues. I’m happy to report we earned that coverage! Drea Humphrey, director of Rebel’s west coast operation, just released a 12minute television interview shot at the RegWatch studio covering the federal excise tax, flavour bans, and other issues critical to vaping.
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Aired: 2022-07-30 Produced by: Drea Humphrey (Rebel News)
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Is the FDA finally getting serious about fighting combustible cigarettes? For the past several years, it’s been hard to tell, considering the agency’s animus towards nicotine vaping. But some say FDA’s recent move to ban menthol cigarettes may be “particularly effective” in reducing smoking, especially if FDA makes mint and menthol flavored e-cigarettes available as an option to switch.
In this episode of RegWatch, hear why Tony Abboud, the Executive Director at the Vapor Technology Association, believes the Menthol Cigarette Rule could be the most significant step FDA has taken to protect public health, but only if the agency follows its own science on e-cigarettes.
Plus, get a full update on the FDA’s Juul ban, the status of synthetic nicotine products, and the startling news about a top FDA official who jumped to a new job at Phillip Morris International, the world’s largest tobacco company.
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Released: August 23, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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What’s driving Health Canada’s war on vaping? Does the regulator favour drug harm reduction over tobacco harm reduction? And is it too late to make a policy change?
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*Guest: David Sweanor, Adj. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa & Tobacco-control Policy Expert
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Released: August 17, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Tobacco control expert David Sweanor says he remains “hopeful” for the future of nicotine vaping in the United States. But it all depends on whether the FDA embraces the maxim: don’t do stupid.
*Guest: David Sweanor, Adj. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa & Tobacco-control Policy Expert
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Released: August 12, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Canada’s top harm reduction advocate says it’s time to consider alternatives to combustible tobacco, over prohibition.
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What motives seemingly rational people: professionals, scientists, and so-called experts in public health to proselytize and propagandize against safer nicotine products?
Joining us today to pick through this question and more is Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and prolific writer on harm reduction policy issues for major publications such as InsideSources, Center Square, Townhall, and Filter.
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Released: July 26, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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The research flow of “exaggerated” and “distorted” information about safer nicotine products is “not going to end any time soon,” says Dr. Brad Rodu, professor of medicine from the University of Louisville. Rodu has made a career battling forces responsible for pushing suspect science in the field of tobacco control. In this episode of RegWatch, he takes the CDC to task over EVALI and its teen vaping and smoking-related deaths data.
Is there truth behind the CDC’s numbers?
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Released: July 22, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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There is one issue with the potential to unite anti-vaping campaigners with pro-vaping advocates and business owners in the Canadian vaping industry, and that issue is enforcement. Both sides in the battle over vaping want to stop teen use of nicotine vaping products, yet the laws intended to prevent teen access are doing tremendous damage to the retail vaping industry while often going unenforced.
Joining us today to discuss the struggles of Canadian vape retail is Jason Flynn, Ontario-based owner of Vape Escapes retail vape shops, owner of Refined Liquid Labs, and current Board Member at the Canadian Vaping Association.
Is tobacco enforcement doing enough to stop teen vaping?
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Released: June 29, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Since nicotine vapes first hit the market in 2007, the United States has been the lead driver of innovation and consumer adoption of these products, worldwide. But while the U.S. is still the largest market for vaping products, anti-vaping zealotry and regulatory insolence has all but destroyed the legal U.S. vaping industry. Case-in-point FDA’s recent ban on Juul.
Joining us today for a deep dive into the impact of FDA’s Juul ban and to discuss how the War on Vaping harms consumers is Alex Clark, CEO of CASAA, the national consumer advocacy organization for smoke-free alternatives.
What does the Juul ban mean for consumers? Find out!
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Released: June 27, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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As discussed on RegWatch over the past year, it appears Health Canada is taking a wrong turn on nicotine vaping. In a few short years, the regulatory framework, which legalized vaping, seems to have collapsed under the weight of a moral panic over teen vaping and malicious public health messaging linking nicotine vapes to a mysterious respiratory illness.
Dr. Jonathan Foulds, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry at PennState University College of Medicine is joining us today to provide insight on the recent restrictions placed on vaping in Canada.
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Released: June 10, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Anti-vaping activists cling to many shibboleths in their war on vaping, including nicotine vaping is a gateway to smoking, dual-use is a danger negating e-cig quit attempts, and vaping is an ineffective tool to quit smoking. But thanks to a growing body of research investigating e-cigarette use and smoking cessation, they are becoming tired and worn.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Dr. Jonathan Foulds, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry at PennState University College of Medicine. Dr. Foulds is a trained clinical psychologist and has spent most of his career developing and evaluating methods to help smokers beat their addiction to tobacco.
Do nicotine vapes help smokers to quit?
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Released: June 9, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Over the past months, several new research studies have released with surprisingly positive results regarding the most contentious issues around e-cigarettes. One study indicates that adult smokers who switch to e-cigarettes may have more chances to improve their health and well-being.
Joining us today to discuss the study are Dr. Rick Kosterman and Dr. Marina Epstein, research scientists from the Social Development Research Group at the University of Washington. Their study found better physical health, increased exercise, and more active social engagement. Amazing!
But is there a catch? Find out.
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Released: June 6, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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With the deadline for PMTA submissions for synthetic nicotine products now closed, the U.S. vaping industry is again held hostage to FDA’s plodding regulatory review process and closed mind regarding the authorization of nicotine vapes. FDA’s track record is dismal, issuing Marketing Denial Orders for millions of existing products and refusing to allow non-tobacco flavors. Is there any reason to believe the agency might approve synthetic nicotine products?
Joining us today to discuss the state of the U.S. vaping industry and ongoing efforts to work with the FDA is Tony Abboud, Executive Director of the Vapor Technology Association.
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Released: May 23, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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With the comment period now closed for the legislative review of Canada’s Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, Canadian vapers again find themselves in “wait-and-see mode.”
It’s hard to believe, but this month is the fourth anniversary of nicotine vaping products becoming legal in Canada. It’s been a brutal four years, and much of the blame lies at the feet of Canada’s health regulator.
Joining us today to discuss Health Canada’s wrong turn on vaping is Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and prolific writer on harm reduction policy issues for major publications such as InsideSources, Center Square, Townhall, and Filter.
Is Health Canada doing harm? Find out.
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Released: May 14, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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In this special report from the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the United States RegWatch executive producer Brent Stafford provides commentary on the FDA’s recent marketing granted order for an NJOY nicotine vape system and discusses the potential impact of the proposed federal ban on menthol cigarettes.
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Released: April 30, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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According to industry analyst Michelle Minton, the future for nicotine vaping in the United States looks “pretty brutal,” following the FDA’s marketing denial orders, the vape mail ban, and the loss of synthetic nicotine as an ingredient in nicotine vapes.
In the battle against anti-vaping forces, no one is more tenacious than Michelle Minton, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. As a researcher and writer on regulatory issues, Minton has delivered many hard-hitting articles and reports exposing corrupt motivations and tactics behind the most egregious efforts to destroy vaping.
What’s the state of vaping in the U.S.? Find out.
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Released: April 22, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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One might hope the plunge in teen vaping and near eradication of teen smoking would prompt Health Canada and the federal government to slow their campaign to restrict adult access and choice to nicotine vaping products. But this is clearly not the case, the outlook for vaping in Canada may be growing worse.
Joining us today to discuss the compounding threats to the Canadian vaping industry is Daniel David, president of VITA, the Vaping Industry Trade Association of Canada and Meshaila Sinnis, VITA’s Director of Regulatory Affairs.
How brutal is the new federal excise tax on vaping? And what can vapers do right now, to help secure the future of vaping?
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Released: April 19, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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It isn’t easy for vapers to secure access and choice to safer nicotine products. It’s enough already dealing with junk science, anti-vaping hysteria, and the constant pummelling by public health prohibitionists and federal regulators. But now, vapers face a new, more sinister reality.
Strip searches, violent police enforcement, and arrest could result from nicotine vaping or trading in illegal nicotine products.
Joining us today to discuss the dawn of a new prohibition era is Jacob Grier, author of the 2019 book “The Rediscovery of Tobacco: Smoking, Vaping, and the Creative Destruction of the Cigarette” and freelance writer for Reason, a libertarian website and magazine.
Could people go to prison over nicotine vapes? Find out!
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Released: April 8, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Surprising comments on the benefits of nicotine vaping and other safer nicotine products by Canadian pharmacists and a top research scientist, delivered at the Harm Reduction Forum on April 5, 2022, in Vancouver, B.C.
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Released: April 7, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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It’s an original sin of Canada’s federal vaping regulations, the enshrinement of vaping as a health hazard rather than a safer nicotine source for smokers trying to quit. Every aspect of Health Canada’s approach to vaping regulation and its public health messaging is based on this tenuous assumption.
Health Canada’s authority to regulate vaping products rests in the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, and the regulator recently kicked off the first official review of the three-year-old legislation.
With the specter of teen vaping all-pervasive and a possible flavour ban around the corner: Is Health Canada failing its mission to protect the health of “all Canadians?”
Today on RegWatch, we are joined by David Lévesque, national vaping activist and founding partner at Digital Smoke Supplies. Get a full rundown of the most pernicious aspects of the TVPA and learn how you can have your say with an easy-to-use website that streamlines submissions to Health Canada.
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Released: March 26, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Congress granted FDA the authority to regulate synthetic nicotine in a crass attempt to ameliorate the moral panic over teen vaping. A problem that many researchers say is waning if it existed at all.
Joining us today for a special LIVE edition of RegWatch is Amanda Wheeler, president of the American Vapor Manufacturers. Learn what happens next for the U.S. vaping industry as it navigates the treacherous path to keep much-needed safer nicotine products on the market.
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Live Streamed: March 18, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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It’s been nine months since Health Canada released details of its proposed nationwide ban on flavours in nicotine vaping products and there is still no word on whether the regulator intends to pull the trigger on what many believe could be a disaster for public health. Is Health Canada punting on the flavour ban?
Joining us today for a special issue update edition of RegWatch is Dr. Mark Tyndall, renowned infectious disease specialist and harm reduction advocate. Learn why he thinks the flavour ban could be losing steam at the federal level and how the provinces might step in.
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Released: March 10, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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As we’ve reported endlessly over the past years, there appears to be a schism within public health between those who believe safer nicotine products play a valuable role in helping smokers to quit. And with those who believe that compared to vaping, smoking is the lesser of two evils.
Joining us today to unpack this question and more is world-renowned tobacco control researcher Dr. Michael Cummings, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina. He formerly led the tobacco control program at Roswell Park Cancer Center and in 2002 Dr. Cummings helped establish the ITC-Project.
What explains the schism over vaping within public health? Find out!
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Released: March 5, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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The Canadian government announced last year it would introduce a new excise tax on nicotine vaping products in 2022. The tax is based on e-liquid volume and not a measure of nicotine content, which is a relief for many. However, the tax could still prove punitive to many smokers seeking to quit.
Joining us today to talk about the troubles of this new tax is Ian Irvine, Professor of Economics at Concordia University and Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.
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Released: February 26, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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The fight to save vaping in the United States appeared almost over when FDA issued Marketing Denial Orders to over 300 vaping product manufacturers, thus requiring more than 5-million vaping products to be taken off the market. But dozens of vape companies fought back, launching legal action against FDA.
Today on RegWatch, hear from Eric Heyer, partner at the law firm Thompson Hine and litigator behind many of the court challenges on behalf of major U.S. vape manufacturers. Learn why several vape companies have been granted judicial stays on their Marketing Denial Orders, which means these producers can continue to sell their vape products while lawsuits remain active.
Could the industry stave off disaster? Find out.
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Released: February 17, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Health Canada’s case for a ban on flavours in nicotine vaping products appears to be crumbling as evidence mounts regarding its potentially disastrous impact on public health.
According to a new report, “The Case for Flavours,” by prominent tobacco harm reduction researcher Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos, flavour bans effectively equate to a form of prohibition, which would fuel the growth of a massive black market and spur a deadly rise in cigarette smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch, hear Dr. Farsalinos discuss his multidimensional review of the use of flavours in nicotine vapes and learn what he recommends regulators should do instead of banning flavours.
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Released: February 12, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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The science on flavour bans appears to be hardening. Studies show if flavour bans are implemented, many vapers would likely return to smoking. And according to Dr. John Oyston, if Health Canada pushes a flavour ban into force, it could be “a public health disaster.”
Joining us today on RegWatch is anesthesiologist and tobacco harm reduction advocate Dr. John Oyston. Hear how he explains the motivations behind Health Canada’s proposed flavour ban and what could happen if it goes into effect.
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Released: February 2, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg is the man behind many of the organizations and initiatives dedicated to the destruction of vaping. Arguably, he’s the single most important person to educate on vaping’s potential to save the lives of millions of smokers. But how to reach him?
Joining us today is Dr. John Oyston to discuss a charming new project to educate Mr. Bloomberg while wishing him a Happy 80th Birthday!
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Released: January 26, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Late last year, China amended its laws, so that vaping product manufacturers are now subject to strict regulation by the Chinese government, under the same regulatory authority as combustible cigarettes. The move outlaws the production and sale of refillable vapes for the domestic market, causing genuine concern over the future global supply of open systems hardware.
In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by esteemed regulatory lawyers Azim Chowdhury in Washington, D.C., and David Ettinger in Shanghai, China, both from the firm Keller & Heckman.
Could China’s new regs threaten vaping across the globe? Find out!
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Released: January 23, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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It’s 2022, and the new year brings fresh hope to vapers that a win in the war on vaping could be had this year. There’s always hope. But is it possible? Should vapers assume the same old arguments made on behalf of vaping over the past decade could finally win the day? Or is it time to take a hard look at those arguments and try to fashion something new?
Joining us on RegWatch to unpack these questions is Matt Culley, Vaping Activist, board member at CASAA, and host of SMM on YouTube.
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Released: January 15, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford
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For many, quitting smoking with public health “approved” methods is an arduous task fraught with failure. Yet, vaping has proven to be a successful method for millions of people, even though public health refuses to acknowledge its benefits.
In this holiday edition of RegWatch, we are joined by Dr. Colin Mendelsohn to discuss his new book “Stop Smoking Start Vaping: The Healthy Truth About Vaping.”
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Released: December 28, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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When public health policymakers implement flavour bans or other restrictions to reduce the appeal of nicotine vaping products to youth, inevitably, these interventions have an equivalent impact on adult consumers.
Banning or restricting flavours drastically reduces the appeal of vaping for adults too. And for the over one million adult Canadians who rely on safer nicotine products, a ban on flavours could mean a return to smoking. Even Health Canada admits to this possible consequence of its proposed national flavour ban.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Daniel David, president of VITA, the Vaping Industry Trade Association of Canada, to discuss the intended and unintended consequences of the proposed flavour ban.
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Released: December 16, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Some rare, good news to share with you today, U.S. President Joe Biden’s federal vape tax appears dead on arrival as Senate Democrats yesterday dropped the proposal from the Build Back Better Act. The question today is: What changed their minds?
Joining us on RegWatch is Tony Abboud, executive director of the Vapor Technology Association and longtime friend of the show. Is the vape tax dead? Or is there still a chance Democrats could try again?
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Released: December 10, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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As we head into the final few weeks of 2021, the future for vaping and other safer nicotine products has never looked so clear: uncertainty and dread remain the dominant drivers heading into 2022. Yet, in a remarkable development, 2021 witnessed a strong pushback in favor of tobacco harm reduction by a group of influential tobacco control experts, which could be a gamechanger.
Joining us on RegWatch is the eminent tobacco control researcher Dr. Kenneth Warner, Dean Emeritus, Prof. Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of Michigan. Dr. Warner is at the forefront of efforts to restore balance in public health policy towards vaping and tobacco harm reduction.
Did vaping contribute to the historic decline of teen smoking? Will flavor bans push people back to smoking? Find out!
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Released: December 9, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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During an extraordinary online event last week, decision-makers at Health Canada responsible for regulating nicotine vaping products delivered a presentation to explain how vaping regulations are decided, drafted, and developed in Canada. The webinar organized by the vaping advocacy group Rights 4 Vapers sought to provide perspective and insight into Health Canada’s proposed national flavour ban.
Joining us today for reaction to the event are hosts Maria Papaioannoy-Duic from Rights 4 Vapers and Christina Xydous from the Quebec-based vaping rights group CDVQ.
Did the event present a positive step forward in the fight to save flavours? Did Health Canada sufficiently acknowledge vapers’ many fears and concerns over the proposed flavour ban? Will this event make a difference?
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Live Streamed: December 6, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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RegWatch coverage of Health Canada’s webinar explaining the regulatory process and how vaping regulations are decided, drafted, and developed in Canada.
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Released: December 2, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposed federal vape tax is one step closer to fruition with the passage this week of the Build Back Better Act by the U.S. House of Representatives. If the bill passes the Senate, costs will skyrocket for safer nicotine products and push millions back to smoking.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Dr. Michael Pesko, one of the country’s leading economists when it comes to analyzing the effect of e-cigarette taxes. Hear about the alarming research that shows how the new tax (which is applied to nicotine in e-cigarettes only) would dramatically increase teen smoking by hundreds of thousands and adult smoking by the millions.
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Released: November 19, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Measures to curb COVID-19 hammered tourism and business travel in British Columbia over the past 19-months. Revenues fell by 70% in 2020 compared to the year prior. Considering the industries bring into the province a total of 14 billion dollars per year, it’s a staggering loss in revenue and jobs.
At a press conference in Vancouver today, industry leaders called for the federal government to “follow the science” and scrap the expensive pre-departure PCR test for fully vaccinated visitors.
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Released: November 10, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Amazing places tobacco harm reduction takes you | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021 | 2,000-year-old Roman Amphitheatre.
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Released: November 6, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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New tax set to make vaping more expensive than smoking | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with Norbert Schmidt, Consumer Advocate, Tobacco Harm Reduction.
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We need to go farther to reach smoke-free future | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with Mark Oates, Director of We Vape UK; Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute
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Released: November 6, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Monumental madness behind the war on nicotine | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with Ethan Nadelmann, Founder & Fmr. Exec. Director, Drug Policy Alliance; Podcast Host, PSYCHOACTIVE
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People are kept unaware of health gains from vaping | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with Grzegorz Król, Director, Knowledge-Action-Change (KAC)
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Released: November 6, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Attack on safer nicotine products is outrageous | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with Will Godfrey, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Filtermag & Executive Director, The Influence Foundation
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COP9: Tricks are being missed | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with David Mackintosh, Advisor on Substance Use Policy, Knowledge-Action-Change (KAC)
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Does tobacco control treat safer nicotine users as dupes? | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with Tom Gleeson, New Nicotine Alliance Ireland
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COP9 is good cop or bad cop? | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with Charles Gardner, Executive Director of the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organizations (INNCO)
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Released: November 6, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Is COP9 failing? | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with Gerry Stimson, Director at Knowledge-Action-Change (KAC), Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London.
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Caught in a state of perpetual motion, the War on Vaping powers on this week with yet another alarming television news report from Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC. Featured on the flagship newscast “The National,” the CBC report sites new data provided by University of Waterloo professor Dr. David Hammond that purportedly shows teen vaping in Canada has returned to pre-pandemic levels.
True to form, the CBC leaves no room for doubt regarding its position on vaping as the report is tagged on-screen throughout the entire piece with the graphic “Teen Vaping Calls to Action” and in the lead, the CBC states Health Canada is not acting quick enough to protect a new generation of youth from becoming addicted to nicotine.
These are shocking developments no matter which way you view them. And for some, it must feel a bit like Déjà Vu.
Joining us to talk through the CBC report and to discuss Dr. Hammond’s new data is national vaping activist Maria Papaioannoy-Duic from Rights4Vapers.
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Live Streamed: October 21, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Joining us today to unpack the big news in vaping over the past few weeks, including the FDA’s decision to grant its first marketing authorization for a nicotine vaping product, is Charles Gardner, Executive Director of INNCO and one of the most incisive voices in the world of tobacco harm reduction.
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Released: October 14, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Joining us today to talk about public health’s incomprehensible reaction to the continued decline in youth vaping rates across North American is Dr. Chris Lalonde, Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria, and harm reduction advocate.
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According to data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, teen vaping fell by over 40% in the U.S. during 2021. However, neither the CDC nor FDA chose to frame the results as a success. Instead, the public health regulators doubled down on the moral panic over vaping.
In this episode of RegWatch, Greg Conley, the president of the American Vaping Association, unpacks the youth use data, talks about the impact of FDA’s marketing denial orders, and discusses the legal fight for relief.
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Released: Sept 30, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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One of our favorite guests on RegWatch delivered an inspiring heartfelt speech extolling the virtues of vaping at the GTNF 2021 London conference. It’s a message everyone should hear.
Amanda Wheeler Owner of Jvapes and president of the American Vapor Manufacturers Association
Amanda is the president of the American Vapor Manufacturers Association, which she co-founded to represent independent vapor manufacturers navigating the regulatory landscape. She is also the owner of Jvapes E-liquid, established in 2011. Since then, Wheeler has been a strong advocate for vapor products and also serves as the executive director of the Arizona Smoke-Free Business Alliance and the president of the Rocky Mountain Smoke-Free Alliance. She graduated from Lamar University with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology before pursuing a Master of Arts degree in psychology from Prescott College.
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It may have been the Canadian vaping industry’s last hope. It’s expected within the next 4 to 6 weeks that Health Canada could pull the trigger on its disastrous flavour ban for nicotine vaping products, which many believe could only be stopped by a change in national government. That change of course did not happen, with the re-election of Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals.
Joining us today to discuss the impact of the 2021 federal election on the battle to save vaping is Darryl Tempest, executive director of the Canadian Vaping Association. Does the return to power of Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals help or hurt the effort to save vaping in Canada?
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With Canada’s general election now over and the federal Liberals returned to power, the future for nicotine vaping in Canada appears bleak. Without political intervention, it’s likely nothing could stop Health Canada from implementing its proposed flavour ban, which is certain to decimate the industry.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Clive Bates, tobacco control policy expert and former Director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK). He issues a blistering critique of Health Canada’s cost-benefit analysis, which the regulator is using to justify its dangerous new policy.
Why does Bates call anti-vaping efforts in Canada “absolutely reprehensible and unethical?”
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Released: Sept 21, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Join RegWatch for a special live episode to unpack the reckless behaviour of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in its decision to delay authorizations of nicotine vaping products for controversial companies such as Juul. While issuing Marketing Denial Orders for millions of products manufactured and sold by thousands of small businesses operating in the U.S. market.
*Guests: Amanda Wheeler, Exec. Dir., Arizona Smoke Free Business Alliance & President, Rocky Mountain Smoke Free Alliance / Dimitris Agrafiotis, Exec. Dir. Tennessee Smoke Free Association / Phil Busardo, Vape Evangelist
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It is a remarkable development in the contentious debate over nicotine vaping. A group of influential tobacco control experts authored a paper, published in The American Journal of Public Health, calling on the broader health community, policymakers, and the media to re-evaluate and reform their positions on vaping in favor of vaping as a tool for harm reduction
Joining us today on RegWatch is Dr. Robin J Mermelstein, Distinguished Prof. of Psychology and IHRP Director at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Chair of FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee. Dr. Mermelstein is one of 15 past presidents of the prestigious Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco that coauthored the paper.
Why does this renowned group of anti-tobacco scientists advocate for greater adult access to nicotine vaping products? Find out.
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Released: Sept 2, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Since the beginning of this year, RegWatch has reported on the situation concerning the United States Postal Service and a new law that bans the shipment of all nicotine vaping products via U.S. mail.
The “Vape Mail” ban could have a devastating impact on the nicotine vaping industry in the United States. But it also threatens another industry, one more popular and on the rise: the cannabis industry. It appears lawmakers intend to sweep cannabis vaping products into the new regulation.
In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by Tami Wahl, Washington lobbyist for the cannabis industry. She’s leading an effort to fight the Vape Mail ban that includes cannabis vaping and nicotine vaping industries. What brought these unlikely partners together in joint action? Find out!
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Released: August 28, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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When the government of Canada first made nicotine vaping products legal, many top tobacco researchers from around the world lauded the move. But what about today: now that a pending ban on flavours threatens tobacco harm reduction in the country?
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Released: August 24, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Where we have seen severe restrictions and flavor bans on nicotine vaping products, “the smoking rate is going back up,” says Dr. Raymond Niaura, NYU epidemiologist and long-time tobacco researcher. The return of smoking is a disturbing trend that seems to be an accepted consequence of tobacco control’s war on vaping.
What’s driving public health decision-making? Find out.
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Released: August 13, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
*Guest: Dr. Raymond Niaura, Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, NYU School of Global Public Health
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*In partnership with Rights4Vapers | It’s not an exaggeration to say Health Canada‘s proposed ban on flavours in nicotine vaping products will push hundreds of thousands of Canadians back to smoking because Health Canada freely admits this fact in the Regulatory Analysis Impact Statement for the proposed new regulations. But if a flavour ban in Canada leads to more people smoking, it also means more suffering, disease, and death. Does Health Canada admit this troubling fact? Does the health regulator even care?
In this jam-packed special edition of RegWatch, we’ll dig into these questions. Joining us as co-host is national vaping activist Maria Papaioannoy-Duic from Rights4Vapers and guests include Shai Bekman, president of DashVapes Inc.; Luke Marshall, owner of County Vape; and David Levesque, founding partner of Digital Smoke supplies.
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As far as inflection points go, the U.S. vaping industry has met its share of turmoil over the past few years. Yet, the industry still manages to hold on. But what’s next for vaping as we approach the court-mandated September 2021 deadline for FDA to review premarket tobacco product applications?
Joining us today is regulatory and public policy lawyer Azim Chowdhury from the firm Keller & Heckman. For over a decade, Chowdhury’s been one of the most prominent legal advocates for the U.S. vaping industry.
In this episode of RegWatch, we take a deep dive into the most pressing issues facing the industry. Will FDA provide market authorization to more than just a handful of big vape companies? What’s the status on flavors, taxes, and the vape mail ban? Will the U.S. vaping industry survive?
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Released: July 15, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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It’s inexplicable. The Canadian government appears hellbent on destroying the health and wellbeing of over one million citizens in a misguided, ill-conceived effort to eradicate nicotine use in the country.
Now the feds are not attempting to eradicate smoking, the habit that kills tens of tens of thousands of Canadians each year. No, it’s nicotine vaping products that the government is poised to ban, which are a vastly safer source of nicotine, and the very same products the Liberal-led Canadian government legalized only three years ago.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Janine Timmons, a concerned Canadian user of nicotine vaping products and long-time supporter of the federal Liberals. Timmons is shaken by Health Canada’s “absolutely reckless” move to ban flavors, which the regulator acknowledges will push some people back to smoking.
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Released: July 12, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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The global war against safer nicotine vaping products continues unabated with new flavor bans, nicotine restrictions, and vaping taxes. Tobacco control says these measures are intended to eradicate the youth vaping epidemic, but harm reduction activists fear the result will be to drive millions of people back to smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Charles A. Gardener, executive director of INNCO, the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organizations for a deep dive into the tactics used by tobacco control to destroy nicotine vaping as a viable alternative to smoking.
Hear analysis on flavor bans and why teen vaping rates have plummeted by 29% and learn why he thinks anti-vaping activists could be in for a shock when the U.S. FDA announces market authorizations under its PMTA process.
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Released: July 8, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Should Canadian vapers take the blame for Health Canada’s war on vaping? Or is the regulator captured by non-profit health groups operating with political purpose?
*Guest: Janine Timmons, former smoker, vaping products consumer
Released: July 6, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Is Health Canada paying attention to the unintended consequences of its war on vaping?
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Released: July 5, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Just three years after the legalization of nicotine vaping products in Canada a slate of new regulations, which includes a national flavour ban, nicotine cap, and federal excise tax, promises to punish the industry and destroy any chance of its survival.
In this episode of RegWatch Live, we are joined by Thomas Kirsop, vaping advocate, and retail shop owner to discuss the apparent unwinding of the legal vaping industry in Canada. What will be the result?
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Live Streamed: June 23, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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With an extraordinary amount of misinformation and vitriol swirling around vaping, it’s hard to believe public perception could change any time soon. Yet, there could be an occasion for hope, and surprisingly, the optimism is grounded in FDA’s premarket tobacco application process.
In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by Alex Norcia, staff writer at Filter and former vaping beat reporter at VICE. Hear why he thinks many could be in for a shock this September when FDA grants marketing approval to certain vaping products.
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Released: June 21, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Any day now, Canadian vapers expect Health Canada to announce a nationwide restriction for nicotine levels in vaping products that promise to cut by over half the amount of nicotine available in current devices and e-liquids. It’s also feared the regulator will soon follow with a national ban on e-liquid flavours that is certain to devastate the industry and destroy a vital tool over one million Canadians use to quit smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by Ian Irvine, Professor of Economics at Concordia University and Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute. Hear his warning to Health Canada that these efforts, ostensibly to combat teen vaping, would lead to an increase in smoking-related disease and death.
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Released: June 17, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Another Canadian province bans flavours in nicotine vaping products in response to the moral panic over teen vaping. With astonishing speed, the province of New Brunswick tabled and passed new legislation guaranteed to destroy adult access and choice to the products many use as a safer alternative to smoking.
Join RegWatch’s same-day coverage with a response to the new flavour ban from Dr. John Oyston, Canadian anesthesiologist, and harm reduction advocate.
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Released: June 11, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Released: June 11, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford & Maria Papaioannoy-Duic
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*Guest: Cliff Douglas, Former VP, Tobacco Control, American Cancer Society
It is a horribly one-sided battle, public health’s war against safer nicotine products such as vaping, heated tobacco products, and oral snus.
After decades of hammering the message that smokers must quit or they will die, public health and the tobacco control community are now trying to eradicate the very products millions use to successfully quit smoking. The War on Vaping seems illogical and intractable, why is that?
Joining us today to answer this question and more is tobacco control insider Cliff Douglas, Adj. Prof. at University Michigan School of Public Health, and former Vice President of Tobacco Control at the American Cancer Society.
Douglas says the mainstream tobacco control community lost its way and it’s time to end the misinformation and vitriol directed towards vaping and tobacco harm reduction.
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Released: May 23, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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It’s hard to believe it could happen in Canada, a government assault on one’s right to speak freely, to share information, and to engage in the operation of a lawful business without fear of penalty or fine.
It’s even harder to believe this is not a reference to the ongoing challenges resulting from the 2020 pandemic. No. These are the words RegWatch first used in February of 2016 to describe the Quebec provincial government’s draconian measures in its maniacal war to eradicate vaping.
Joining us on RegWatch to unpack the War on Vaping and the Fight to Save Flavours in Canada is John Xydous, owner of 4 vape shops in Quebec and regional director for the Canadian Vaping Association, and David Levesque founding partner at Digital Smoke Supplies instrumental vaping activist.
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Released: May 20, 2021
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For everyone, there’s nothing in life more certain than death and taxes. Yet if you are a smoker the risk of death and pain of taxation increases by orders of magnitude, often thanks to ill-conceived government action. Case-in-point the United States of America and the growing hostility towards safer nicotine products, such as vaping.
In just a few short years anti-vaping campaigns, flavor bans and punitive tax measures have pushed countless vapers back to smoking; during a time when government professes a duty to keep the public safe.
Joining us today to talk about the U.S. approach to vaping and its macabre commitment to death and taxes is the writer, researcher and vape activist Lindsey Stroud, from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance.
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In one way or another, every conversation we bring you about vaping is a conversation about nicotine. Whether it be regulations, the latest media scare, or a promising piece of new science, nicotine looms large over all the issues. Without nicotine, there would be no smoking and, of course, no need for safer nicotine products.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Paddy Costall, a global tobacco harm reduction advocate and co-organizer of the 8th Annual Global Forum on Nicotine. Hear about the issues and challenges tackled in this year’s event held online and in Liverpool, England, on June 17th and 18th.
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Released: April 24, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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At times it can be quite maddening trying to sort out the reasoning behind public health’s opposition to tobacco harm reduction. Now it’s true not everyone within public health opposes THR products, such as vaping and smokeless tobacco, but for those who do, they seem to hold all the power.
Joining us for the first time on RegWatch is Dr. Lynn T. Kozlowski, Prof of Community Health and Health Behavior at the University at Buffalo, School of Public Health and Health Professions. Kozlowski is an internationally recognized expert on tobacco use, e-cigarettes, and nicotine policy, and he’s the former head of Behavioral Research on Tobacco at the Addiction Research Foundation, Ontario.
What’s the primary moral reaction towards vaping by harm reductionists within public health?
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Released: April 15, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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It’s astonishing to witness how swift the Canadian vaping industry’s fortunes have changed following the legalization and regulation of vapour products in 2018. After experiencing explosive growth and successfully navigating the complexities of a newly enacted regulatory regime, the Canadian vaping industry now faces destruction.
Turmoil over the so-called youth vaping “epidemic” and reputational damage done by a smear campaign that falsely implicated nicotine vaping as having caused an “outbreak” of a mysterious lung illness is responsible for sowing doubt and mistrust with the regulator and the public.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Saadiq Daya, the CEO of Canadian e-liquid manufacturer VanGo Vapes. Hear his assessment of Health Canada’s regulatory management and what he fears most about the pending restriction on nicotine levels and potential national flavour ban.
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Released: April 10, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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“Show yourself and your conflicts” is the call from Dr. Roberto Sussman, an advocate for consumers of non-combustible nicotine products in Mexico and Latin America, to the billionaire philanthropist, and anti-vaping crusader, Michael Bloomberg.
To an extraordinary extent, Bloomberg influences public health policymaking within numerous countries, at multiple levels of government, via a complex network of non-profit organizations in which he funds.
Dr. Sussman says it’s time to unmask the motivations behind Bloomberg’s abstinence-only, prohibitionist stance on low-risk nicotine products and expose his paternalistic, anti-democratic treatment of low and middle-income countries.
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Released: April 3, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg is well-known in America for incessant moralizing over the products he believes government should ban people from consuming, in the name of good public health. But few know the magnitude of Bloomberg’s impact in developing countries around the world.
Over the past decade, Bloomberg-funded organizations have made concerted efforts to eradicate low-risk nicotine products, such as vaping, in low and middle-income countries. They push narrow public health policies that disenfranchise and marginalize local populations.
In part-2 of this RegWatch special series we are joined by Michelle Minton, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Hear why she thinks Bloomberg’s one size fits all policy is “insidious” and a throwback to the “colonialist origins of public health.”
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Released: March 31, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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In a world filled with grand conspiracy theories, it can be difficult to nail down a proper villain. After all, there’s no shortage of bad actors. But when it comes to the war on vaping there’s really only one, the billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
In this special series of RegWatch, we explore how Bloomberg uses his power and money to backstop a tangled web of philanthropic organizations who cajole, strong-arm or buy-off governments of low and middle-income countries so that they would implement harsh restrictions, taxes, and even bans on low-risk nicotine products, such as vaping.
Is Bloomberg doing more harm than good?
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Released: March 28, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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*Guest: Michelle Minton, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute - The law banning the shipment of nicotine vaping products via the U.S. postal service is set to go into effect at the end of next month, leaving many consumers with limited options to secure the products they rely on to quit smoking.
Joining us today on RegWatch to talk about the impact and politics behind the U.S. vape mail ban, and the overall outlook for vaping, in general, is Michelle Minton, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Released: March 26, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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The U.S. vaping industry faces many unforeseen challenges, but none is more threatening than the challenge posed by underage vaping.
Preventing youth use of vaping products is the number one goal of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its onerous Premarket Tobacco Application Process (PMTA.) And while many vaping companies struggle to meet the high bar set by FDA to remain in business, the biggest hurdle could come only after a Marketing Order is approved: Postmarket Reporting.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Taylor Cage, Board Secretary and Communications Chair of SFATA, the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association. Hear Cage discuss SFATA’s new Responsible Industry Network (R.I.N.) program which is a closed-loop system designed to ease the burden of Postmarket Reporting and to help keep vaping products out of the hands of youth.
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Released: March 20, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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It’s a legitimate concern for the Canadian vaping industry, how to redesign refillable vaping devices and vaping parts to meet Health Canada regulations for child-resistant containers, during the middle of a pandemic, and under unbelievably tight timelines.
The new requirements could have been an industry killer, but thanks to global leaders like Innokin Technology Canadian vapers are able to vape on.
Joining us today on RegWatch are legendary vape advocates Dimitris Agrafiotis and Phil Busardo, brand ambassadors and designers on behalf of Innokin. Hear about the company’s new CRC-compliant products and get an update on the challenges facing the Canadian and U.S. vaping industries.
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Live Streamed: March 11, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Nicotine vaping devices are a disruptive technology that forever changed the prospects for cigarette smokers who want to quit. But success comes at a price and for the vaping industry that price is the enmity of many tobacco-controllers and public health.
One such vaping opponent is philanthropist Michael Bloomberg. He’s provided hundreds of millions of dollars to groups and governments in support of their anti-vaping efforts. This is why many within the tobacco-harm reduction community, grew concerned when hearing chatter about Bloomberg’s possible financial involvement with a new nicotine vaping device called Hale.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Josh Israel the CEO & Co-Founder of Hava, the company behind Hale. Hear first-hand about the genesis of the device, how it’s being brought to market, who is providing financing, and why its developers believe Hale, is the true smoking cessation alternative.
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Released: March 6, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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In “The Art of War,” the great military strategist and general Sun Tzu says, “Every battle is won before it is ever fought.” Meaning In order to set the stage for victory, you need to manage both your resources and your forces wisely. Now that’s good advice, but what does one do if resources are scarce to begin with and your forces are disparate and hard to unite?
Joining us today to discuss this pressing question is Darryl Tempest, executive director of the Canadian Vaping Association.
Will the Canadian vaping industry survive the coming onslaught?
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Released: February 25, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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If you are a business consultant specialized in crisis management, there’s no better client to have than the Canadian vaping industry. Which in just the past few years, has been pummeled by the so-called “epidemic” of teen vaping, the so-called “vaping-related lung illness,” and of course the Coronavirus.
Whether it’s COVID lockdowns, flavour bans, or nicotine caps the industry is under withering assault. But yet, it perseveres. However, 2021 could be the most challenging year yet.
Joining us today on RegWatch to talk about those challenges is Robin Gasnier, district manager of Vape Nation an Ontario-based vaping products retail chain.
Does 2021 pose an existential crisis for the Canadian vaping industry?
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Released: February 20, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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June of last year RegWatch brought you the story of a longshot legal challenge against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by Big Time Vapes, a Mississippi vape shop and e-liquid manufacturer, and the United States Vaping Association (USVA). The lawsuit argues Congress ceded too much authority to the executive branch when it passed the Tobacco Control Act of 2009, an authority used by the FDA to deem vaping products to be a tobacco product.
The original complaint was dismissed in U.S. District Court in 2019, and since our last coverage, the suit failed on appeal. However, it’s not over until it’s over and that leaves the U.S. Supreme Court.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Jared Najvar the lawyer behind the Supreme Court challenge and legal advocate Greg Troutman who filed an amicus brief on behalf of 19 vaping associations in support of Big Time Vape’s petition to the highest court in the land.
Could SCOTUS rule in vaping’s favor?
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Released: February 11, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Did your business receive an FDA enforcement letter regarding operations in the vaping space? If so, the United States Vaping Association wants to hear the details of your case.
USVA is planning to file a preliminary injunction in order to halt enforcement action. Get the details in this RegClips by RegulatorWatch.com.
Released: February 10, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Hear Professor Lynne Dawkins’s take on whether vaping should be considered a social justice issue.
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For decades public health and tobacco control have bludgeoned smokers with the message that smoking kills. And, in order to save one’s life you really only have one choice and that is to quit, or you could die. It’s a stark message, often delivered with moral zealotry and a whiff of authoritarianism.
But what if there is another choice? A choice that reduces harm by allowing the consumption of nicotine in a manner that is magnitudes safer than smoking: there is such a choice and of course we are talking about vaping.
The potential for vaping to save lives is manifest to those in the harm reduction community who have battled so hard against the ill-fated war on drugs.
Joining us today on RegWatch is one such warrior, Harry Shapiro. For over 40 years he’s fought to eradicate the harm caused by ineffective and intolerant drug policy and for the past half-decade, he’s been a leading voice for tobacco harm reduction.
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Released: January 27, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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With the door now finally shut on the disastrous year of 2020, it’s time to reflect on how vaping and tobacco harm reduction in general, faired during a year that brought massive upheaval to the lives of so many. At the epicentre of the turmoil is the public health movement and as so often is the case, its intersection with politics.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Greg Conley the president of the American Vaping Association. Hear Conley’s take on which disaster caused more damage to the U.S. vaping industry: the scare over the so-called teen vaping epidemic, EVALI, or the response to the pandemic. And hear his detailed warning about the recently passed vape mail law that bans U.S. Mail shipments of vaping products and forces online vape sellers to comply with an unwieldy tax mandate.
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Released: January 16, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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The Canadian federal government announced late last year that it’s moving to restrict nicotine levels in vaping products that are manufactured, imported, or packaged for sale in Canada. The new restrictions that are now up for public consultation are based on the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive, which sets the maximum concentration of nicotine in vaping products at 20-milligrams per millilitre.
Joining us today to talk about the impact and efficacy of nicotine caps is Lynne Dawkins, Professor of Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at London South Bank University. Professor Dawkins is one of the UK’s leading authorities on e-cigarettes, having published numerous papers on the use, acute effects and delivery of nicotine through vaping products.
Do nicotine restrictions do more harm than good?
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Released: January 12, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Another hammer has dropped on the Canadian vaping industry. The Federal government announced it is moving to restrict nicotine levels to a maximum concentration of 20mg/mL for vaping products manufactured, imported, or packaged for sale in Canada.
For many Canadian vapers, the proposed new limit would slash (by half for some) the amount of nicotine consumed when vaping and (by Health Canada’s own projections) cause some vapers to return to smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch Darryl Tempest, executive director and lead advocate from the Canadian Vaping Association discusses the impact of the proposed nicotine cap and provides a roundup of the fight against flavour bans and vape taxes sprouting up in provinces across the country.
It’s our last episode of 2020, don’t miss it.
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Live Streamed: December 22, 2020
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*Guest: Dr. Karl Fagerstrom, world-renowned nicotine researcher
Nicotine, the drug craved for its unique and contradictory ability to increase alertness or sense of relaxation, depending on the circumstance it is used.
Nicotine has been consumed for thousands of years yet over the past half-century it has become reviled as a source of addiction and contributor to the millions of worldwide smoking deaths each year.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Dr. Karl Fagerstom. Since 1975 he’s been at the forefront of nicotine research. Hear what he has to say about nicotine dependence and learn why he believes some researchers are being pressured to not tell the truth.
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Released: December 13, 2020
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Federal and provincial governments are causing “great harm” to Canadians with unreasonable COVID-19 mask mandates and restrictions says the organizer of this weekend’s Hugs Over Masks protest at the Art Gallery in downtown Vancouver.
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Released: December 5, 2020
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The state of Wisconsin gave birth to both the Progressive movement and the Republican Party. So, it’s no wonder the badger state is ground zero of the culture wars consuming the land of the free and home of the brave.
RegWatch brings you an exclusive interview with Brian Schimming, former Vice Chair of the Wisconsin Republican Party, shot this past August on location in Milwaukee. Schimming is one of the top GOP operatives heading the fight to #StoptheSteal of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. Hear his take on the turmoil facing the nation.
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Released: December 4, 2020
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Submit and give up. This is the demand made by tobacco control officials in their effort to destroy vaping as a viable alternative to smoking. While vapers have been the target of this type of harassment for many years, tobacco harm reduction researchers are increasingly coming under fire.
In this episode of RegWatch meet Dr. Marewa Glover, Director at the Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking, New Zealand. Learn why Dr. Glover believes a tightly networked cabal of tobacco control officials are blacklisting and bullying THR researchers; deploying propaganda and other tactics of coercion, in order to frustrate smokers switching to less harmful sources of nicotine.
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Released: November 29, 2020
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Big tobacco is evil. This “truth” serves as the foundation for tobacco control policymaking across most of the world. Public health bureaucrats, politicians and non-profit health advocacy groups believe so strongly in the evil of big tobacco that they ostracize any person or group they deem to be advancing the interests of the tobacco industry.
Perhaps big tobacco is evil. Combustible tobacco products are deadly and for decades the industry lied to the public, marketed to children and spent untold millions influencing public policy. Yet, by branding big tobacco as evil, public health organizations like the WHO have egregiously marked vastly less harmful alternatives to smoking, such as vaping and snus as complicit.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Clive Bates, tobacco control policy expert and former Director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK). Bates believes tobacco control crusaders have baked into policy a principle of “irreconcilable conflict” between the interests of the tobacco industry and public health. Bates says the principle is both permanent and inescapable.
What does this mean for vaping?
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Released: November 21, 2020
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Vaping activists are accustomed to fighting a barrage of misleading information about nicotine vaping, pimped by a plethora of anti-vaping non-profit health groups then promulgated by a compliant mainstream news media.
But over the past year, a disturbing trend has emerged: vaping activists are being canceled from participating, or simply attending forums and discussions with public health on the potential risks and benefits of switching from smoking to vaping.
In this episode of RegWatch Live we are joined by Maria Papaioannoy-Duic, vaping activist and vape shop store owner. Hear firsthand how vaping activists are being excluded from the debate and why she thinks the ostracization is systemic.
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Live Streamed: November 18, 2020
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Key clips from our episode CONTAINING CHAOS - Guest: Jon Glauser, CEO Demandvape
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Released: November 16, 2020 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Chaos and uncertainty mark the results of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. As of this writing, we still don’t know if Republican candidate Donald J. Trump will hold onto the presidency or if Democratic candidate Joe Biden will prevail, becoming the 46th President of the United States.
What we do know is that no matter the outcome the result will have a dramatic impact on the future of vaping.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Jon Glauser, CEO at Demandvape the largest wholesaler and distributor of vaping products in the nation. Hear what he thinks about a possible Biden win and what impact it would have on the U.S. vaping industry.
Is it time to rethink the political strategy in support of vaping?
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Live Streamed: November 6, 2020
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Disturbing revelation about the link between smoking and autoimmune disease, plus how the war on vaping may be stifling an open discussion of potential health impacts of vaping.
Key clips from our episode MANUFACTURING HARM - Guest: Dr. Annie Kleykamp, Experimental Psychologist, Medical Analyst
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Released: November 4, 2020 Produced by Brent Stafford
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Follow the science. It’s the exhortation we hear all the time from politicians and bureaucrats to activists and academics. Whether at work or at school or via the mainstream media, we are awash in a reverence to science. But what if science is being used to advance an ideological agenda and great harm is the result?
Joining us today to discuss this possibility is Dr. Annie Kleykamp an experimental psychologist, medical analyst and evidence-based health advocate. Hear why she believes the COVID-19 pandemic is being cynically used as a golden opportunity to “prove” e-cigarettes damage the lungs and thus destroy the virtues of vaping.
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One of the most hotly contested issues with regard to vaping is whether or not e-cigarettes are an effective tool in the battle to stamp out smoking. The very mention of this possibility sends regulators, tobacco enforcement agents, and anti-vaping advocates into a tither.
In most regions, the vaping industry is prohibited by law from making direct health claims or even suggest that vaping is a viable tool for smoking cessation. Yet, 40-million vapers worldwide attest to their efficacy, and each year more research is published demonstrating what so many already know: Vaping is a highly effective tool to quit smoking.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Dr. Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, from the Cochrane Tobacco Review Group. She is the lead researcher on the Cochrane review of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation, which released this month and further supports the growing evidence that vaping is an effective tool to quit smoking.
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Released: October 24, 2020
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In an unprecedented move, the Canadian Vaping Association issued a public endorsement in support of the BC New Democratic Party for the 2020 provincial election. Find out why.
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It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that the war on vaping is political. No matter the fealty public health swears to science, it is perfectly clear political dogma now rules the day when it comes to vaping.
The prospect of wading into politics in order to save vaping is anathema to many vapers and the associations that represent vaping interests. But the time for trepidation may now be over as the Canadian Vaping Association announces its endorsement of the New Democratic Party of British Columbia, in the upcoming provincial election.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Darryl Tempest, CVA’s Executive Director and Lead Advocate. Hear the reasoning behind CVA’s unprecedented move and learn how the strategy could be rolled out in support of other parties and candidates in provinces where vaping is also under threat.
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Live Streamed: October 14, 2020
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*Guest: Dr. Derek Yach, President of Foundation for a Smoke-Free World
Despite touting a desire to change, a new report shows tobacco companies have made little progress in reducing the harm of combustible tobacco.
According to the recently released Tobacco Transformation Index, from 2017 to 2019 the world’s 15 largest tobacco companies achieved only a marginal decline in cigarette sales while continuing marketing practices that focus on boosting high-risk product sales.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Dr. Derek Yach, President of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World to discuss the results of the Tobacco Transformation Index and how this first-of-its-kind measure could help large institutional investors pressure tobacco companies into taking substantial action to mitigate the world’s smoking burden.
Are tobacco companies living up to their commitments to reduce harm? And, is the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control helping or hurting the effort?
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Live Streamed: October 6, 2020
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It’s not a dystopian prediction of the future, but the present. Unelected health bureaucrats and radical climate change activists aligned in a diabolical effort to exploit the Coronavirus lockdowns; the greatest advancement of state power in the history of mankind.
Climate change and COVID-19 are inextricably linked as they both share the same solution: total control of the masses by expert fiat. Only they know what’s good for you, the planet, and the common good. You must listen because scientists say so!
Joining us today to talk about this and more (yes vaping) is Marc Morano, the world’s number one climate contrarian, a dogged opponent of hysterical science, and denier of the prophecies of climate doom.
Hear about his just-released film “Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy” and learn why he thinks you can no longer talk about climate without talking about COVID.
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Released: October 3, 2020
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Stoptober is back: The UK’s annual challenge to quit smoking in the month of October. According to the NHS if a smoker can stay quit for 28-days then it is 5 times more likely the person quits for good. Those are great odds. But what about how a smoker chooses to quit, does that improve the odds of success?
For years UK government health organizations have been leading voices in support of vaping as a tool for tobacco harm reduction. Yet the UK is not immune to the massive worldwide campaign of misinformation intended to discredit and destroy vaping as a viable alternative to smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by tobacco harm reduction advocate and clinical consultant Louise Ross to discuss realities on the ground in the UK effort to stamp out smoking. Are e-cigarettes being promoted at NHS Stop Smoking Services centers? What is the current UK public perception of vaping? And, how might the demise of Public Health England affect the outcome of the war on vaping?
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Live Streamed: September 30, 2020
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Isolated interview with Bill McEachern and Ryan Landry, plaintiffs in a constitutional challenge to Nova Scotia’s draconian anti-vaping laws. From RegWatch Live episode NO APPEASEMENT | Industry Fights Nova Scotia’s War on Vaping.
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The time for appeasement is over, says Michael Scott, the trial lawyer who filed a constitutional challenge to Nova Scotia’s arbitrary and pernicious vaping product laws.
Over the past year, Nova Scotia enacted new regulations that ban the sale of flavoured e-liquids and prohibit instore product testing. And most egregiously, the Liberal-led provincial government instituted a new vaping consumption tax that makes smoking more financially viable than vaping.
The legal challenge argues that Nova Scotia’s vaping restrictions infringe on the “right to security of the person” under Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and builds upon the precedents established in the Canadian Vaping Association’s victory against the Quebec provincial government (which the province is currently appealing.)
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by lawyer Michael Scott to discuss the specifics of the legal challenge and by plaintiffs Ryan Landry and Bill MacEachern, co-owners of Cloud Factory Vape Shop in Nova Scotia, who explain the devastating impact of the new regulations.
Could the industry prevail? Find out!
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Live Streamed: September 22, 2020
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Dr. Stanton Glantz retires, but his pernicious influence lives on through his personally trained disciples and dark legacy of fraudulent research. Hear more in these key clips from our interview with Guy Bentley, Dir. of Consumer Freedom, Reason Foundation
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With the implementation this week of Nova Scotia’s new vaping product tax it’s become clear the province is determined to destroy the industry, forcing thousands of vapers back to smoking.
The new tax is not only draconian but cruel as the end result is that smoking in the province of Nova Scotia is now more financially viable than vaping.
In this episode of RegWatch, Nova Scotia vape shop owner Margaret Preston walks viewers through the new tax and shares correspondence with government compliance officers as she seeks clarification in her struggle to keep her business afloat.
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Released: September 17, 2020
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"On Revolution" by Hannah Arendt, Published 1963
Hannah Arendt is widely considered one of the most important political thinkers of the 20th century.
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*Guest: Sam Tam, President of the Canada Vaping Association - In July, when the B.C. provincial government enacted new rules and regulations governing the sale of vaping products in the province, it gave retailers until September 15 to sell off non-compliant product and adjust inventories to meet the new B.C. (specific) packaging and device specifications.
With the deadline only days away, the industry is waiting for the B.C. provincial government to provide critical clarifications that promise to ease compliance burdens and to harmonize the new rules with existing federal government regulations under the TVPA.
In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by Sam Tam, President of the Canadian Vaping Association to discuss what the industry needs in order to navigate the new regulatory environment and to learn what critical clarifications the province has indicated it might deliver before the deadline.
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Live Streamed: September 14, 2020 Exec. Producer: Brent Stafford
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*Guest: Dimitris Agrafiotis, Exec. Dir. Tennessee Smoke Free Association, @VapinGreek - It’s only been one day since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s anti-vaping regulation went into effect and already the FDA has informed some stakeholders that their Premarket Tobacco Applications have been received and accepted for review by the regulator.
Is there truly a glimmer of hope for the survival of the U.S. vaping industry or do vapers have a dark future to face?
If there’s anyone who might know the answers, it’s Dimitris Agrafiotis a.k.a. the VapinGreek. He’s a globally known vaping advocate and executive director of the Tennessee Smoke Free Association. If you’re looking for frank talk and piercing analysis, we’ve got it in this episode of RegWatch.
Live Streamed: September 10, 2020
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*Guest: Guy Bentley, Dir. of Consumer Freedom, Reason Foundation - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s anti-vaping regulation takes effect today Wednesday, September 9, and promises to deliver a lethal blow to the U.S. vaping industry.
Guy Bentley, Dir. of Consumer Freedom at the Reason Foundation joins RegWatch to discuss the impact of the industry killing Premarket Tobacco Application Process; how the FDA’s anti-vaping regulation forces winners and losers; and why “clear the market” is an extraordinary response.
Live Streamed: September 9, 2020
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*Guests: Tristan Thompson and Sherwin Mena, United Vapers Alliance
For the second time in less than a year, vapers are set to descend on Washington, DC to call on President Trump to intervene and put a stop to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s industry killing Premarket Tobacco Application Process.
The rally is scheduled for September 5th, just 4-days before the PMTA deadline and organizers hope a strong showing by advocates and grassroots vapers will pressure politicians to “do the right thing” and support flavored vaping products as a tool for harm reduction.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Tristan Thompson and Sherwin Mena from the United Vapers Alliance. Hear the plans for the coming rally, learn how you can make a difference, and ask the organizers questions in advance of the big day.
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Live Streamed: August 31, 2020
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Armageddon for the U.S. vaping industry is fast approaching, and all hopes for a reprieve from the Trump administration are all but dashed. What if anything is happening behind the scenes to save the industry? What will become of the 150,000 jobs, the 11,000 small businesses, the thousands of manufactures, and the millions of vapers when the FDA’s PMTA deadline passes on September 9th?
Joining us today on RegWatch is Paul Blair, a policy strategist for the conservative-based advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform and vocal supporter of vaping as a tool for harm reduction.
Are anti-vaping forces sentencing hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people to a painful, premature death by smoking? Find out!
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Live Streamed: August 19, 2020
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*Get ready to think! (42 mins) - Key clips from our episode SEISMIC SWITCH - Guest: David Sweanor, Ottawa lawyer, renowned tobacco-control policy expert
Hear how a tsunami of misinformation and the peddling of doubt about vaping, led to a comeback in cigarette smoking. Who’s to blame? Find out!
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*Get ready to think! (16mins) - Key clips from our episode PIVOTAL MOMENT | Dr. David Hammond Buries Correction on Teen Smoking Rates, with Dr. Chris Lalonde Professor of Psychology, University of Victoria.
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*Guest: Amanda Wheeler, National Vaping advocate
For the U.S. vaping industry, the past 12-months have been horrific. Countless vaping product retailers and many e-liquid manufacturers have shuttered operations in the wake of the so-called epidemic of teen vaping, the CDC’s outright deception over the so-called vaping-related lung illness and following the economic destruction resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
Now with just a little over a month left to meet the final deadline for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Premarket Tobacco Product Application process; the U.S. vaping industry is bracing for yet another purge, which could destroy vaping as we know it in America.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Amanda Wheeler, President of the Rocky Mountain Smoke Free Alliance and Executive Director of the Arizona Smoke Free Business Alliance. Advocating on behalf of small manufacturers of non-cartridge ENDS products, Wheeler has been in direct discussion with officials at the United States Department of Health & Human Services, FDA and the Trump White House.
Learn details of the proposed plan to immediately establish an alternative “streamlined” PMTA pathway for small businesses selling non-cartridge ENDS. Hear what the response has been from HHS, FDA and the White House. And find out why Wheeler believes, that while “it’s a shot in the dark,” the industry should still “hope for the best.”
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Live Streamed: August 3, 2020
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*Guest: Dave Bryans, CEO of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association
Caught between big tobacco and big government is how Dave Bryans, CEO of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association, describes the predicament that family-run convenience stores face in Ontario as a result of the upheaval over the so-called youth vaping epidemic.
OCSA’s membership totals over 3,000 independently run C-Stores in Ontario and the association advocates on behalf of the entire sector of 6,000 family-run stores.
In this episode of RegWatch learn about the pressure tactics which Bryans says big tobacco is using to maneuverer around the quickly changing regulatory environment and find out how new restrictions on the sale of vaping products represent a lost opportunity to communicate the virtues of vaping as an alternative to smoking.
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Live Streamed: July 28, 2020
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*Guest: Dr. Chris Lalonde Professor of Psychology, University of Victoria - When University of Waterloo professor David Hammond first shared preliminary results of his teen vaping and smoking study with Health Canada and the media in late 2018, he did so with the “hope” that his findings were just a “blip”; a sentiment he expressed at the time, and then again in June 2019 when the study was finally published in the British Medical Journal.
While the results of the survey showed a 74% increase in teen vaping (measured as used once in the past 30-days,) from 2017 to 2018, the most explosive finding was in regard to youth smoking.
Dr. Hammond’s research purported to find a massive year-over-year increase of 45% in the prevalence of smoking among youth ages 16 to 19 in Canada. The finding fueled national news coverage, hyping the teen vaping “epidemic” and bolstered the claim that vaping is a gateway to smoking.
Now one year later, Dr. Hammond and the British Medical Journal have issued a correction to the controversial study and admit that not only was there no increase in teen smoking; the rate fell by 7%.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Dr. Chris Lalonde, Professor of Psychology and expert in research methodology at the University of Victoria. Hear his assessment of how researchers, media, and regulators leveraged Hammond’s research to justify new restrictions on vaping products; and learn why he believes this is a “pivotal moment.”
Did Dr. Hammond bury the correction to his study?
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Live Streamed: July 23, 2020
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*Guest: Darryl Tempest, Exec. Dir. and Lead Advocate, Canadian Vaping Association
It is said nature abhors a vacuum and in regard to vaping regulations in Canada, this maxim appears to hold true. In the wake of the teen vaping epidemic and concern over the so-called “vaping-related lung illness,” provincial governments across the country have taken matters into their own hands by issuing a patchwork of new vaping restrictions intended to fill regulatory gaps left open by Health Canada.
The B.C. provincial government is the latest to drop a slew of new restrictions that are certain to change the way vaping products are produced, sold, and consumed in the province.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Darryl Tempest, the Canadian Vaping Association’s Executive Director and Lead Advocate, for a detailed walkthrough and analysis of British Columbia’s new regs.
What will be the impact? Are these regs an industry killer?
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Live Streamed: July 22, 2020
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It is the single most important question: Is vaping safe? Despite a mountain of research pointing to low health risks associated with vaping compared to smoking; a definitive answer remains elusive. But researchers behind a new multi-site international study of the health effects of vaping hope to remedy that and need your help.
The VERITAS (Vaping effects: real-world international surveillance) Cohort Study is headed by Dr. Riccardo Polosa out of CoEHAR, the Center of Excellence for Harm Reduction, Catania. The lead scientist and global project manager is Dr. Carl V. Phillips.
In this episode of RegWatch hear Dr. Phillips explain why the VERITAS Study is by far the most substantial study of the health effects of vaping (in the absence of smoking,) and will provide invaluable information for vapers, smokers, and policymakers.
You could play a critical role, find out how.
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Live Streamed: July 21, 2020
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*Guest: Sam Tam, President of the Canada Vaping Association - In the effort to stem youth use of vaping products, Health Canada announced its final Vaping Products Promotion Regulations, which set out measures to further restrict the advertising and promotion of vaping products to youth. Central to the government’s approach is a strict requirement to display “health warnings” on all vaping products, promotions, and point of sale materials.
While overall the new regulations are welcome by industry, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for stakeholders to accept, what may be considered as the “original sin” of the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act; the enshrinement of vaping as a “health hazard,” rather than as a tool for harm reduction.
The notion that vaping is a “health hazard” imbues the regulatory framework and nowhere does one find a comparison of the potential health benefits of vaping to the known dangers of smoking—what is hazardous to health could never provide a health benefit, so the argument goes.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Sam Tam, President of the Canadian Vaping Association. Hear his thoughts on Health Canada’s latest round of regulations and learn what the impact could be on Canada’s $1.36 billion vaping industry.
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Live Streamed: July 15, 2020
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*Guest: Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, Founding Chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Assoc.
It was a surprise decision issued by Australia’s Minister of Health to ban the personal importation of liquid nicotine for vaping beginning on July 1. The order was issued on June 19, leaving little time for harm reduction activists and a coalition of MPs to mount an effective challenge to a law, which many agree, could drive tens of thousands of vapers back to smoking.
Under growing pressure, Health Minister Greg Hunt decided on June 27 to delay the ban on importing nicotine. However, the fight to legalize vaping is far from over.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, Founding Chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association and member of the Expert Advisory Group that develops the Australian national smoking cessation guidelines.
Why did the Australian government issue the ban? What impact would it have had on public health? How did the vaping community mobilize against the ban? Were there surprising allies in the fight? And, what’s next in the fight to legalize vaping in Australia?
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Live Streamed: June 29, 2020
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*Get ready to think! (2:15) - What’s the impact of COVID-19 on the UK? How much of a threat is it? And when or will society ever get back to normal?
Clip from our May 5, RegWatch interview with John Britton, Prof. Epidemiology, University of Nottingham, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, Nottingham City Hospital
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*Guest: Kevin Crowley @Vapingit, Founder of Vapinglinks.blog
He’s a secret, wrapped up in an enigma, and smothered in secret sauce. Who is he?
Mike Peterson from “Vaping and the Mic” describes him as “the onion chef of Twitter.” Vapers.org.uk says his “gritty distinctive style is ever-readable.” And THR advocate Ivanna Awrey exclaims: “Bless your crankiness, Kevin Crowley!”
Joining us today for a special edition of RegWatch is the man himself, Kevin Crowley. The founder of the most-comprehensive pro-vaping resource on the web: vapinglinks.blog. The sharp edge on the @Vapingit Twitter account. And the man whose work advocating for vaping is so impactful, researchers mistake him as a bot. Yes, a bot!
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Live Streamed: June 25, 2020
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*Guest: Matt Culley, Vaping Activist and YouTube Content Creator
There’s no doubt the U.S. vaping industry faces a public perception problem of gargantuan proportions. While advocates maintain (and research backs up) that vaping is a safer alternative to smoking, everyday anti-vaping forces meet continued success in their effort to permanently poison the public understanding of vaping.
Compounding the problem is a simple fact: vapers are not a monolithic group drawn from one political perspective or party. How then should the vaping movement activate politically in this U.S. presidential election in order to meet what is clearly is a political threat i.e. flavor bans, taxation, and other onerous regulations?
Joining us today on RegWatch is Matt Culley, a prominent vaping activist and virtuoso of vaping product review videos on YouTube. Known as Matt From SMM, he’s amassed near 300,000 subscribers and 60 million video views. Culley is one of the first product reviewer superstars to venture into the vaping advocacy space, bringing a strong ethical voice and his support for progressive values to bear.
Is there a winning message to persuade politicians and the public about the virtues of vaping?
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Live Stream: Wednesday, June 24 Time: 7:00pm ET / 6:00pm CT / 4:00pm PT
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*Guest: Dr. Derek Yach, President of Foundation for a Smoke-Free World
Not long ago, tobacco control researchers and public health officials openly discussed a possible worldwide “endgame” to combustible tobacco use, thus preventing the death of up to one billion smokers by end of this century. But today, the focus on endgame is forgotten as the tobacco control movement intensifies efforts to eradicate vaping, the only technology proven both scalable and appealing to smokers as a viable alternative to smoking.
Tobacco control fixates on preventing up-take of smoking and complete cessation of nicotine use. While technologies like vaping, represent the principles of reduced risk and harm reduction.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Dr. Derek Yach, President of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW) and former World Health Organization (WHO) cabinet director and executive director for noncommunicable diseases and mental health where he was deeply involved with the development of the world’s treaty on tobacco control, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
At the forefront of global debate, hear Dr. Yach discuss the promise of tobacco harm reduction; why the WHO appears so vehemently opposed to harm reduction strategies; and whether increasing attacks on vaping (science and policy) and the reaction to crisis (youth epidemic, EVALI, and COVID19) have increased harm due to tobacco-related disease.
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Live Streamed: June 17, 2020
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The fight to save vaping has always been a David versus Goliath struggle. Facing countless regulatory hurdles, the U.S. vaping industry mostly comes up short when seeking relief from the courts for what it believes to be arbitrary and capricious rulemaking by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
With FDA poised (yet again) to deliver a death blow to the U.S. vaping industry via its Pre-market Tobacco Application process, a lawsuit championed by Big Time Vapes Inc. and the United States Vaping Association Inc. could stave off disaster if the plaintiffs successfully argue, before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, that Congress ceded too much authority to the executive branch when it passed the Tobacco Control Act of 2009. An authority used by the FDA to deem vaping products subject to FDA regulation.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by USVA’s lawyer Jerad Najvar to discuss the intricacies of the case, including whether the “deeming” authority is so extreme that it’s unconstitutional, and if Congress failed in its duty when it delegated power to legislate to the FDA with little guidance and no restraint.
Live Streamed: June 10, 2020
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*Guest: Phil Busardo, celebrated YouTube show co-host and vape reviewer - Over the years the anti-vaping movement honed the tactics of creating mayhem and misery for those who rely on vaping as a tool for harm reduction. For vapers, wading through lies and half-truths has long been the daily norm. Yet the mendacity seems to be getting worse, as ideologues in the war on vaping capitalize on recent health scares to plot new attacks intended to stamp-out vaping for good.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Phil Busardo, celebrated YouTube show co-host and prolific vape reviewer. Hear Busardo share his aggravation over the mind-bending hypocrisy of the anti-vaping movement and learn what he thinks could be a winning strategy for vaping.
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Live Stream: Monday, June 8
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*Guest: Tristan Thompson - UVA, Vaping Legion
It’s a worldwide day of action in support of a technology that millions of former smokers’ credit for saving their lives. May 30 is World Vape Day and in this episode of RegWatch we speak with Tristan Thompson, head of the Vaping Legion, and Board President of the United Vapers Alliance to recap the events of #WorldVapeDay and learn how vaping advocacy is marshaling its forces for the fight ahead.
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Live Streamed: May 30, 2020
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*Guest: David Praph, Marketing Manager & YouTube Content Creator
How do you get a rambunctious group of disparate vapers to take interest in the ever-disheartening discussion around vaping regulation? The science on vaping is suspect, the news is biased, and public health mostly rejects vaping as a safer alternative to smoking. At times the situation is so bleak, it’s hard to find focus. And trust us, it’s a vexing question.
But the marketing team at DashVapes, Canada’s largest independently owned vaping products retailer and e-liquid manufacturer seems to have found the answer. Helmed by David Praph the company’s YouTube channel has exploded in popularity notching over 400,000 subscribers and 70 million views in just the past three years.
What’s Dave’s secret for mixing the sweet: vaping reviews, comedy, lifestyle; with the sour: teen epidemic, vaping-related lung illness, and flavour bans?
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Live Streamed: May 27, 2020
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Does the enormity of the Coronavirus catastrophe mean the end of ‘woke’ politics? What’s the ideology behind political correctness? Does a communist look back when you gaze in a mirror? How might ‘woke’ make a comeback? And, what’s the impact on the U.S. Presidential election?
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As the world begins to break loose from the totalitarian grip of public health, the enormity of the disaster (created by the hysterical response to the Coronavirus) is becoming tragically clear: Over one billion people in forced lockdown, nearly one-hundred million unemployed, millions thrust into poverty, and trillions of dollars of new debt shackled to the living and generations to come.
It’s a man-made disaster that almost no one saw coming, except for, quite possibly, the vaper.
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*Guest: Dr. Duke Pesta, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin
Even before the Coronavirus pandemic hit, forcing over 50 million schoolchildren in Canada and the U.S. out of class and into lockdown, the strain on North America’s education system was already showing.
Suffering from the pernicious influence of ‘woke’ ideology and a relentless assault on individual achievement, many had wondered if the entire system, K-12 through University, was already broken. With the announcement that 48 U.S. states have ordered, or recommended schools remain closed this academic year, and with the Province Ontario in Canada following suit: What damage is being done to our children’s future under the auspices of staying safe?
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Dr. Duke Pesta, a tenured professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, academic director of the FreedomProject Academy, and one of America’s foremost authorities on the dangers of Common Core.
Armed with his PhD in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, Dr. Pesta assesses the future of education under the grip of COVID19 and how he thinks the West might prevail.
Live Stream: May 20, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Is there a winning argument in the War on Vaping? Why is “liberty” a failed argument? How does a fundamental contradiction between “Vaping Saves Lives” and “Lockdowns Save Lives” lead to “the Body Argument?” Why does the future of vaping rely on progressive vapers?
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On Day #50 of the Coronavirus lockdown, RegWatch asks: How does desire become a virtue? Why do progressives eschew logic and rationality? What are the economic, and subsequent health impacts of the global lockdown? Must we beg for mercy?
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It’s simply astonishing. New studies are showing that current smokers have a significantly lower risk of COVID-19 death than both never-smokers and former smokers when you correct for other variables, including many of the health problems that smoking intensifies. The new science is in addition to several studies released early in the Coronavirus pandemic, which showed a link between nicotine use and the prevention of COVID-19.
What should vapers make of these startling new developments? Could the mantra “Vaping Saves Lives” be extended to COVID-19?
Joining us on RegWatch is Clive Bates, renowned international tobacco control expert and master of the counterfactual. Bates walks viewers through the findings of the new studies and provides his analysis of the potential impact on the bitter battle to ban the vape.
We’ll also dive into the recent teen vaping study released by Dr. David Hammond, the campaign to cap nicotine strength in Canada, and how the predicate “better safe than sorry” may be the death knell of western civilization.
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Live Streamed: May 13, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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*Get ready to think!
Lurking under the surface of folk culture’s celebration of kind, calm and safe is a dark history of fearmongering to advance state control. Enmeshed with an uplifting melody and progressive lyrics, folk music issues powerful demands on individuals to sacrifice priorities in the name of the common good.
This message is almost always facilitated by the deification of an authority figure: in the case of COVID19, that figure is Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer.
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When you turn on the mainstream media, pop onto social media or just look out your living room window, you’ll find a sea of people who exist cocooned in a bubble of entrenched thinking. Renowned philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche called these people “the herd.” Today, they are known as Progressives.
If you are a vaper, you can’t escape the brutal fact that the war on vaping is a progressive effort to deny you the right to decide what you can put into your own body and how you might choose to mitigate risk.
You believe vaping saves lives: the progressive public health movement simply does not care.
In this edition of RegWatch meet Vicki McKenna, conservative talk radio host and vaping advocate. She blasts common sense thinking to millions of listeners each week and isn’t afraid of taking on progressive forces hell-bent on destroying vaping.
Last September McKenna went to Washington to testify on behalf of vaping at the House Oversight Committee hearing Don’t Vape: Examining the Outbreak of Lung Disease and CDC’s Urgent Warning Not to Use E-Cigarettes. She ended up squaring off against progressive Michigan U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, in what turned out to be a bizarre exchange over vaping and conspiracy theories…
Hear why McKenna fights for vaping and how COVID Chaos is affecting the battle to ban the vape.
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Live Streamed: May 7, 2020
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Smoking kills and so does denying smokers opportunities to quit. While stark, this message is dripping with common sense and is a perspective found lacking in tobacco control research and public health.
But not all public health systems are bereft of such ways of seeing. The UK has taken a global lead in seeking to capitalize on the potential benefits of vaping as a tool for harm reduction. And a cabal of careful researchers and tier-one organizations have been leading the charge.
Today on RegWatch we are joined by John Britton, Professor of Epidemiology, University of Nottingham, and the former Chair of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group. In 2016, Britton shepherded to publication RCP’s ground-breaking 200-page report titled “Nicotine without Smoke,” which emphatically stated that the risks of vaping are small and the benefits are great.
Join us for a deep dive into the science on vaping; an examination public health policies on vaping since the report; a hard look at anti-vaping opponents, the mainstream media, and the recent scares over the teen vaping epidemic and vaping-related lung-illness.
And also, for a discussion about COVID19 and its impact on healthcare, the proportionality of the response, and the emerging new evidence that nicotine could have a role in protecting people from the virus.
Don’t miss this episode.
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Live Streamed: May 5, 2020
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We hear incessantly about the “new normal” imposed on society by public health in its response to the COVID19 pandemic. But when it comes to vaping in America, is the public health response really new, or is it a doubling-down on the same only dirty tactics deployed to destroy the industry?
In this episode of RegWatch we’re joined by Dino Baccari Founder & President of White Horse Vapor in Providence, Rhode Island. Brash and insightful, Dino is going to share his thoughts on a wide range of issues affecting local vape shop owners around the country; what’s been the real impact of COVID19 on vaping; how he thinks anti-vaping forces have capitalized on the pandemic; and his advice for regulatory relief which may indeed lead to a “new normal.”
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Live Streamed: May 4, 2020
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Welcome to the new normal. It’s a horrifying message delivered with a smile by your friendly neighbourhood public health professional. But don’t be fooled, the new normal is abnormal, and the effort to persuade, cajole and force your compliance has only just begun.
Join us for a special live-to-tape edition of RegWatch Live for what we hope is a mind-bending discussion on critical topics including: why Vaping Saves Lives and Lockdowns Save Lives are incompatible; why we are NOT all in this together; when virtue becomes power; when totalism takes over science.
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Live Stream: Sunday, May 3 Time: 6:00pm ET / 5:00pm CT / 3:00pm PT
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*Get ready to think!
As the world begins to break loose from the totalitarian grip of public health, the enormity of the disaster (created by the hysterical response to the Coronavirus) is becoming tragically clear: Over one billion people in forced lockdown, nearly one-hundred million unemployed, millions thrust into poverty and trillions of dollars of new debt shackled to the living and generations to come.
It’s a man-made disaster that almost no one saw coming, except for, quite possibly, the vaper.
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*Get ready to think! (6mins)
Which side of the political landscape claims the mantle of “change?” Is change used as a political weapon? Why are Progressives so afraid of change? What lies at the heart of revolutionary nature? Is socialism really materialism in disguise?
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Under assault by a killer pandemic and crushed by public health’s response, it has become the mantra of the moment: “We are all in this together!” While this statement is heartfelt, do governmental actions in the battle against COVID19 match the sentiment, when it comes to vaping in America?
The U.S. vaping industry has certainly stepped up in this time of need, by manufacturing hand sanitizers, delivering masks and servicing customers who rely on vaping as a safer alternative to smoking, yet the assault on vaping continues. As if stay at home orders and a national economic shutdown are not enough to devastate the U.S. vaping industry, flavor bans (such as the one in the state of New York) continue to wreak havoc and threaten lives across the country.
In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by Tony Abboud, the Executive Director at the Vapor Technology Association, the leading lobby group for the U.S. vaping industry. Get the latest updates on the most critical issues, including the fight against state flavor bans, the status of FDA’s PMTA deadline, the slanderous linking of COVID19 with vaping, and the determined effort by public health to isolate, stigmatize and delegitimize vaping.
Are we really all in this together?
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Live Streamed: April 22, 2020
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It’s week six of the COVID19 shutdown and across the board, vaping is taking a beating. Denied (in most areas) the “essential service” designation, vape shops have had to move to curbside transactions, online-only sales, or close the doors entirely. Many vapers have lost access to essential products and governments just don’t seem to care.
In Quebec, the challenge to vaping is starker, as the provincial government escalates its war on vaping to a point where a complete ban is not only possible but probable.
In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by the Canadian Vaping Association’s executive director and lead advocate Darryl Tempest for a complete update (provincial and federal) about the impact COVID19 is having on vaping in Canada.
We’ll discuss how vaping opponents are using Coronavirus to amplify efforts to destroy the virtues of vaping. And, we’ll examine how chief provincial public health officers are furthering the hysteria against vaping by advising smokers and vapers to quit or cut back amid the pandemic.
Will vaping survive COVID19?
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Live Streamed: April 20, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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*Get ready to think! (8mins)
Starting in the earliest days of the lockdown: why do the mainstream media attack each and every potential drug treatment for Coronavirus? Why has the MSM waged jihad against hydroxychloroquine? Is it just about Trump or something more? (Part 1 of our coverage)
This video is clipped from a RegRant episode streamed live on March 19, the same day President Trump first touted hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID19, and also the same day the MSM launched their attack against all promising treatments.
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Now more than ever RegWatch needs your help to sustain our vaping coverage. One U.S.-based vape retailer took up the challenge and is running one of the most innovative RegWatch fundraisers to date.
Meet Dino Baccari, founder & president of White Horse Vapor in North Providence, Rhode Island. He and his staff are asking customers to contribute a min. of $1 with each purchase (drive-thru and online) and so far the results have been great. Check out the point-of-sale materials they have deployed and his message to the industry in this video.
Support RegWatch, by supporting White Horse Vapor. And if you are a retailer and would like to do something similar let us know.
Also go to: support(dot)regulatorwatch(dot)com or Facebook Fundraiser: /donate/689791851788644
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It’s a hard thought to come to grips with the possibility that in the case of COVID19 (as in vaping) the western public health establishment is proving to be enormously incompetent or fantastically corrupt. There seems to be no other option to viably explain the repeated misuse of science, maligning of reason and brazen propaganda tactics deployed in an effort to grow power and strip rights from the public. What’s going on?
Joining us today is Christopher Snowdon, a celebrated author and libertarian champion for vaping, as a tool for harm reduction. In his latest book “Killjoys: A critique of paternalism” he unpacks the paternalist policies pumped by lifestyle regulators; a critique he now aims at the seemingly willful harm leveled by the western public health establishment as a result of COVID19.
First, they came for your vape. Now they come for your liberty. What can be done?
Find out!
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Live Streamed: April 15, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Prescient RegWatch coverage from DAY #1 of the COVID lockdown | Did public health overreact to the COVID Crisis? After CDC deception over so-called “vaping-related lung illness” should it be trusted on COVID? Is shutdown of Western society totalitarian action?
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Shutdown Day #1 | Why were professional sports leagues the first to succumb to the COVID19 hysteria? Did the NBA and NHL cancel seasons purely over health concerns? Or, is the shuttering of big-league sports essential to promoting the pandemic?
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*RegClips (8:44): Get ready to think!
What motivates a revolutionary? Where does the concept of terror come from? What role did the French Revolution play? When talking about destroying capitalism, is that not communism? Is progress a march towards making a better man? Could Canada be on the road to Venezuela?
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*RegClips (8:22): Get ready to think!
Is science a process of discovering the truth, or is it a process of manufacturing the truth? What is “levelling” and why is it such a big part of the progressive project? Is the battle against vaping a shakedown? And, is “crying uncle” the desired outcome of progressive hysteria over Trump?
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*RegClips (6:18): Get ready to think!
Why do Progressives hate vapers? What’s driving public health’s irrational behavior? What do Progressives seek?
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Just over a month ago, it appeared radical environmental activists were close to achieving a long-sought goal: to #ShutdownCanada by strangling the energy and resource sector into oblivion.
Across the country, protests erupted and blockades were erected, paralyzing Canada’s national transportation system, in support of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs who call for the cancellation of the $6.6 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline project in Northern B.C.
What the protests failed to accomplish in February may be finished by the coronavirus economic shutdown and a global crash in the price of oil.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Chris Sankey, a member of the Coast Tsimshian community and former elected Councilor for the Lax Kw' Alaams Band near Prince Rupert, B.C. Sankey argues federal and provincial governments are failing to protect Canada’s economic and social interests; are captured by a globalist agenda; and are quick to sacrifice Canada’s current prosperity for the promise of a fossil-fuel-free future.
Now with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic crushing the global economy and with environmental activists seeking to exploit social and economic chaos, Sankey says enough!
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Live Streamed: April 2, 2020
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Marc Morano is quite simply the world’s number one climate contrarian, a dogged opponent of hysterical science, and a denier of the prophecies of climate doom.
He’s the author of the best-selling 2018 book the “Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change” and the award-winning producer, writer and host of the 2016 hit film “Climate Hustle,” which rips the mask off of global warming hype, and exposes the myths and exaggerations behind the science propping up the climate scare.
In this episode of RegWatch, Morano joins to discuss the crisis in science that many have recognized with regard to vaping and are now becoming aware of due to the disastrous, catastrophic, overreaction to COVID19 by the scientific community and public health agencies the world over.
As an investigative journalist, he covers the erosion of truth in science; for which he will discuss possible parallels in the science on climate, vaping and now COVID19.
It’s a must-see episode!
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Live Stream: Wednesday, April 1 Time: 7:00pm ET / 6:00pm CT / 4:00pm PT
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Time is (if not already) running out for the U.S. vaping industry. Hit by a trifecta of crises: teen vaping epidemic, vaping-related lung illness and COVID19; the FDA’s Pre-market Tobacco Application deadline quietly lurks in the background, preparing to pounce, and destroy vaping as we know it.
Is this hyperbole? That’s what we are going to find out in this episode of RegWatch with Greg Conley, president of the American Vaping Association.
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Live Streamed: March 29, 2020
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*Guest: Dr. Kenneth Warner, Dean Emeritus, Prof. Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of Michigan | Member of FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee and Health Canada’s Science Advisory Board on Vaping Products
It’s a turbulent time for vaping. Over the past 24-months the industry struggled to manage one crisis after another: panic over the so-called teen vaping epidemic; hysteria over the so-called vaping-related lung illness; a mad rush to ban vaping products; and vicious attacks by anti-vaping activists exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic for ideological gain. All the while, fending off an endless stream of suspect science and a rowdy regulatory process.
Essentially, the turbulence is fueled by a battle within public health over tobacco harm reduction; the divide is continental, both in space and mind.
Joining us today to talk these issues and more is Dr. Kenneth Warner. Over his 45-year career, he’s presented in over 250 professional publications, served as the World Bank’s representative to negotiations on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (the world’s first global health treaty,) served as Senior Scientific Editor of the 25th anniversary Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health and was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Truth Initiative.
What insights will he share about the issues and challenges facing vaping?
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Live Streamed: March 26, 2020
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We unpack, unspool and unwind as much as we can around #vaping and the "bug" - the disgusting, unscrupulous attacks during the #COVID19 crisis. Part one of the show is lost to history. We migrated over to RegWatch’s channel for part 2. Blame the bug.
Live Streamed: March 24, 2020.
Produced by: Brent Stafford
TUNE-IN FOR UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON THE DRIVE TO GET THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO TO CLASSIFYING VAPE RETAIL STORES AS AN ESSENTIAL SERVICE.
Live Stream: Today, March 24
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DR. JOHN OYSTON MB, FRCA Anesthesiologist, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Length: 2:15 Released: March 23, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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E290 - BOOK RANT | REVOLUTIONARIES
Book Rant | Revolutionaries
Impromptu musings from higher ground
Live Streamed: Sunday, March 09 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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*Guest: Dr. John Oyston, Anesthesiologist - Over the past 18-months public health agencies, special interest health groups, and a legion of public health foot soldiers pumped a fake epidemic of teen vaping and perpetrated a fallacious lie: Vaping kills.
In just 6-months we have gone from dramatic daily announcements of new cases of vaping-related lung illness and death to dramatic daily announcements of new cases of COVID19 illness and death. One hysteria ran into the other. Or, are both hysterias one and the same?
Joining RegWatch for COVID19 Special Coverage is Dr. John Oyston, anesthesiologist and harm reduction advocate. He has decades of experience dealing with infectious disease, including frontline experience fighting the SARS outbreak in 2003. As a dedicated supporter of vaping as a tool for harm reduction, Dr. John is tracking the convergence between CDC’s hysteria over vaping and the hysteria over COVID19.
Hear his advice on vaping and quitting smoking during the COVID19 Crisis and learn about the effort to get vaping designated as an essential service in Canada.
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Live Stream: March 22, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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If you are one of those people who vape, that have suddenly found themselves stampeding with the herd and what I mean by that is full “hair-on-fire hysteria” over COVID19; please stop, take a big breath and watch this episode of RegWatch! Vapers should be doubting this narrative, find out why.
Be outside the herd!
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Live Streamed: March 19, 2020 Produced by Brent Stafford
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*Guest: Aaron Gunn, political commentator and free speech activist
*Includes major debate over COVID-19 response
Enough is enough: Is the best way to describe the motivating passion behind conservative commentator Aaron Gunn and his crusade to free Canada from the lethal grip of extreme left-wing ideology.
Deeply embedded within Canada’s conservative social media movement; he’s produced scores of videos for Facebook--earning over 25 million views—that challenge the left on major issues such as the erasing of Canada’s history, free speech, law and order and the protests over the Coastal GasLink pipeline project.
In return he is defamed, threatened, and just last week, de-platformed by the University of Victoria.
In a shameful display, UVic caved to threats of left-wing violence and cancelled a previously approved “free speech club” event where Gunn was set to provide an alternative perspective on the Wet’suwet’en pipeline protests, which paralyzed Canada’s national transportation network, shut down freeways, and blocked access to government buildings across the country.
In this episode of RegWatch Aaron Gunn joins the show to talk details of UVic’s censoring of free speech on campus; COVID-19 hysteria; and the urgent need to support Canada’s resource sector.
Don’t miss this episode!
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Live Streamed: March 15, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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TOTAL POWER | Progressives Pounce with Society Shutdown | RegWatch (Live)
Breaking RegRant... global public health moves to shutdown western society.
If you vape, the Wuhan Virus hysteria represents a clear and present danger.
If you value freedom, then the Wuhan Virus hysteria is the beginning of the end.
Find out why.
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Live Stream: Sat March 14, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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It begins as a familiar story; after years of smoking a friend or family member drops a positive recommendation about vaping. You give it a try and kind of like it. Over the months, you find yourself reaching more and more for the vape and less and less for the cancer-sticks, until one day, you realize: I’ve quit smoking! (accidentally of course.)
Then comes the vaping-related lung illness; Trump’s 9/11 flavor ban; CDC malevolence; barrage of public health hysteria; and glaring bias from a snarling mainstream media. What happens next?
In this episode of RegWatch meet Cindy Schmidt: 12 months ago, she was a smoker, today she’s a ticked-off vaper who’s deployed her skills as a lawyer to investigate the CDC’s deception in the lung scare and to become one of the most poignant vaping advocates on Twitter.
Hear her story and learn how vaping shattered her progressive outlook.
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Live Streamed: March 12, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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It’s astonishing how wide the gap is between the public health position on vaping in England and that of the United States and Canada. One side values evidence and the other, emotion and hysteria.
Public Health England (PHE) just released the sixth report in its series of independent reports commissioned by PHE to summarise evidence on e-cigarettes to inform policies and regulations.
The report meticulously addresses each of the issues anti-vaping activists expound as dangers of vaping and simply refutes each one with impeccable science.
In this exclusive RegWatch interview with Linda Bauld, Professor of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh and co-author of PHE’s 2020 Evidence Update; we walk through the findings: youth vaping epidemic, vaping-related lung illness, perception of harm, risk of nicotine use, vaping and pregnancy…
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Live Streamed: March 9, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Canada is a nation unmoored from tradition and is frightened to recognize good ideas from its past. Every idea or policy must drive towards change, and not just any old change, it must be radical change; otherwise, the action is deemed illegitimate and often even racist.
The vast majority of divisive issues facing our country, such as immigration and diversity, indigenous rights, resource extraction, growth of government, global warming and the redistribution of wealth all are impacted by the imperative of radical change.
In this special edition of RegWatch, Maxime Bernier the leader of the People’s Party of Canada joins the show for an in-depth discussion of the key issues challenging our nation today.
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Live Streamed: March 5, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Strangling Canada’s resources and dividing its people destroys wealth and hope. Levelling is the endgame and the only direction is down – Full Int. https://regwat.ch/3cj3ckR @CoastalGasLink @WexitAlberta #Wetsuweten #shutdownCanada #bcpoli #cdnpoli
Released: March 3, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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NORTHERN IMPACT | Response to Proposed Wet'suwet'en Agreement |In under 16mins
Radical environmental activists are hell-bent on destroying Canada’s resource economy, and they are winning. Hurt most are the people in isolated communities where projects once hoped to lift out of poverty, now lie dormant or dead on arrival.
In this special edition of RegWatch, learn about the protest impact in Northern B.C. in under 16mins.
Released: March 3, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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NORTH MATTERS | Grassroots Fight for Economic Survival | RegWatch (Live)
For the great people of Northern British Columbia calculating the economic impact of the Wet’suwet’en pipeline protests is just another exercise in a long treacherous battle with radical environmental activists hell-bent on destroying the resource economy. And, the battle has taken its toll.
What the protestors want is to level and not just level the playing field, but to level results. To achieve leveling activists thwart multi-billion-dollar resource projects through obstinacy and militancy. They strangle resource development at the local level; destroying family and community throughout.
Joining RegWatch Live from Kitimat in northern B.C. is Dave Johnston, founder of The North Matters a pro-resources grassroots advocacy group that promotes unity and action in solidarity with B.C.’s resource citizens. Hear Dave’s account of the coordinated “misinformation” attacks playing out in the protests and learn what (if anything) could be done to stop them.
Live Streamed: March 1, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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SUSPECT SCIENCE | Vaping Suffers Most, Find Out Why | RegWatch (Live) *Dr. Chris Lalonde, expert in research methodology, unpacks Glantz Study Scandal & Responds to Ontario Vaping Restrictions
Is the science on vaping settled? It’s an interesting question since the answer on either side of the debate is a resounding yes! For vapers, vaping saves lives and after a decade of use—there are 40-million vapers across the world—vaping has proven to be “shown safe.” Yet if you are one of the uncalculatable numbers of public health workers, academic researchers or a regional mouthpiece for a non-profit health group, then you believe vaping is deadly and a scourge of modern-day society.
In the wake of the Stanton Glantz study scandal, Dr. Chris Lalonde Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria and harm reduction advocate returns to RegWatch to examine the how’s and why’s of suspect science and its impact on the vaping debate in Canada.
Who’s anti-science?
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Live Streamed: February 29, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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HOUSE PASSES FLAVOR BAN | Would Trump Veto? | RegWatch (Live) *Industry reaction with Jon Glauser, C.E.O. Demand Vape & Exec. Board Member, VTA
It was breaking news yesterday, but like all things government, it took until today to pass. What was it? Well, bill HR 2339 – The Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act. Sponsored by Democratic representatives Frank Pallone of New Jersey and Donna Shalala of Florida. The bill was introduced a year ago, and now the house of representatives HAVE PASSED the bill which is ban on flavored vaping products in all 50 states.
Joining us today to talk about the ban, the potential impact on the industry and whether or not President Trump would veto the bill is Jon Glauser, CEO of Demand Vapes, Exec Board Member of the vapor technology association and anchor supporter of RegWatch.
Live Streamed: February 28, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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@brentstafford calls on political leaders to allow all Canadians a voice in the discussion over resources and the future of Canadian sovereignty. @JustinTrudeau @CoastalGasLink @WexitAlberta @SheilaGunnReid #Wetsuweten #shutdownCanada #bcpoli #cdnpoli
Released: February 28, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
Political turmoil unleashed on the country—in so-called “solidarity” with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs opposed to the $6.6 billion Gaslink pipeline project—is neither spontaneous nor surprising. For decades U.S. non-profits have poured millions of dollars into the organizing, training and activation of Canadian eco-militants in an effort to destroy Canada’s resource sector.
In this special edition of RadicalWatch on RegWatch, learn who’s behind the protests in under 16mins.
Released: February 28, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
Dr. Brad Rodu, professor of medicine and tobacco control expert from the University of Louisville made a career battling forces responsible for promulgating suspect science in the field of tobacco harm reduction: there’s been no shortage of need for his effort.
Regulators, public health agencies and colleagues in academia relentlessly use skewed science and cooked statistics in an effort to delegitimize safer alternatives to smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch Dr. Rodu discusses events behind the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) retraction of a major study by authors Stanton Glantz and Dharma Bhatta of the University of California San Francisco that purported to show nicotine vaping led to an increase in heart attacks. The study fueled national panic over vaping and Dr. Rodu led the effort questioning the work.
Also, Dr. Rodu addresses RegWatch’s recent questioning of the estimates for annual smoking-related deaths: Why is it that smoking rates continue to fall and the forecasts of smoking deaths stay the same?
We dive into Dr. Rodu’s ground-breaking 2008 report: Calculating the ‘Big Kill’
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Live Streamed: February 26, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Vapers, vape shop owners, and harm reduction advocates in British Columbia attended two rallies on Saturday—one in Victoria and the other in Vancouver—to call on the B.C. provincial government to protect the rights of vapers and adult smokers to choose a less harmful alternative to smoking.
RegWatch caught the Vancouver rally and grabbed great interviews with Dr. Mark Tyndall, Saadiq Daya, and more. Here’s our report hot off the presses.
Released: Saturday, February 16 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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*Guest: Dr. Raymond Niaura, NYU College of Global Public Health
Fear is appealing, infectious and proven to motivate people to change the way they think and act. It’s no wonder then that the public health profession employs fear as a textbook tactic in its effort to persuade the public to modify behavior. To be effective, fear appeals must operate at the population level, thus national panics over the so-called youth vaping epidemic and vaping-related lung illnesses are born.
In this edition of RegWatch we are joined by Dr. Raymond Niaura, Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Professor of Social and Behavioural Science at NYU College of Global Public Health to discuss new research he co-authored that shows fears of a youth vaping epidemic may be overblown.
What are the facts concerning youth vaping in the United States? Are flavors a prime motivator? And, did public health authorities use unfounded fear to pump hysteria over vaping-related lung illness?
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Live Streamed: January 31, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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It’s hard to overstate the importance of the policy shift on vaping announced this week by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. In its latest national smoking cessation guidelines, the College now supports GPs and other health professionals if they wish to recommend vaping to smokers who have tried to quit but were unsuccessful with currently available medications.
As is the case in most western countries GPs in Australia are typically the first point of contact in matters of personal health for millions of smokers. Now smokers can ask their GP about vaping and learn that vaping is an effective tool to quit smoking and that it’s 95% less harmful than smoking.
It’s an extraordinary development considering Australia remains one of the more hostile regulatory and public health environments towards vaping.
Joining us for this edition of RegWatch Live is Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, Founding Chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association and member of the Expert Advisory Group that develops the Australian national smoking cessation guidelines.
Could this policy shift be a game-changer for Australia?
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Live Streamed: January 29, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Public health’s war on nicotine vaping is unrelenting and without mercy. Over the past 18-months an unprecedented amount of disinformation—regarding the health impacts of vaping—flooded the mainstream media, poisoned public perception and triggered vaping product bans across North America. Clearly, scaremongering works.
One company that’s had enough with the disinformation and is fighting back is Imperial Tobacco Canada the maker of the Vype brand vaping device, and the largest tobacco company in the country.
In this episode of RegWatch Eric Gagnon, Head of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at Imperial Tobacco Canada, discusses their just launched “Facts Not Fear” campaign, and how media and government must “not give free reign to anti-tobacco groups as they spread inaccurate and misleading information about nicotine vaping.”
What is Imperial Tobacco Canada’s reaction to vaping-related lung illness; youth vaping epidemic; provincial flavour bans, advertising restrictions, and more?
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Live Streamed: January 23, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Nick (Grimm) Green joins RegWatch to talk: the hysteria ginned up by the CDC over the mysterious lung-related illness; advocacy efforts underway to fight flavor bans, how vaping advocates put an army of vapers on Twitter; and how he and other vape focussed YouTubers are surviving the crush of increasing censorship and constant threats of revenue model destruction.
It’s a jammed packed don’t miss episode!
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Live Streamed: January 16, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Joining us on RegWatch is Dr. Riccardo Polosa the world’s foremost researcher on nicotine vaping and its effects on the lung and respiratory system. Dr. Polosa is a Respiratory Physician, professor, and Director of the Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology at the University of Catania, Italy.
Dr. Polosa is an expert in lung disease and over numerous studies, his research provides clinical evidence supporting the health benefits of vaping; not only to reduce harm but in some cases, even reverse the harm caused by smoking.
What does he think about the CDC sponsored smear campaign that falsely implicated nicotine vaping as a cause of the deadly lung-illness? What does science say about the relative harms (and benefits) of vaping on the lung? And, is the damage done to vaping’s reputation permanent?
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Live Streamed: January 14, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Back in November when the government of British Columbia announced it would enact new vaping restrictions in order to protect youth, little concern was paid to the tens of thousands of adults in the province who rely on vaping as a tool to quit smoking. In mid-December, the provincial government released details of the changes in what it calls an “Intentions Paper,” which if enacted, would destroy adult access and choice to vaping products in the province.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Stacey White the co-owner of Thunderbird Vapes and ardent defender of vaping rights in B.C. Hear her reaction to how the proposed regulations would classify nicotine as a “Health Hazard,” cap nicotine strength, cap e-liquid containers, cap tank size, ban zero nic e-liquid, and ban most, if not all flavours.
Add on top a 20% sales tax and intentions are clear: the BC NDP-led provincial government aims to crush vaping with a ban, in all but name.
As the deadline for public consultation fast approaches: what could be done to stave off disaster?
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Live Streamed: January 8, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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One would hope the forces allied against vaping would observe a cessation of hostilities and allow for a peaceful holiday season, but hope is all that it would be. Over the holidays, in a series of surprise meetings and after a quick pass through the regulatory process, the Trump flavored vape ban moved from dormant to a fait accompli.
First to break the news was Paul Blair, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Americans for Tax Reform. Blair held the pulse of the process as the vape ban went from rumour to reality over the course of 10-days.
Joining RegWatch for our first episode of 2020, Blair walks viewers through the details of what happened, how it happened and what will the impact be on the industry?
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Live Streamed: January 6, 2020 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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2019 demonstrated in brutal fashion public health’s penchant for orchestrated lying. CDC’s obfuscation and outright deception, regarding the potential cause of the mysterious lung illness, falls nothing short of a national public health scandal, with worldwide impact.
In our final edition of RegWatch for 2019, Guy Bentley director of consumer freedom at the Reason Foundation recaps CDC’s disastrous misjudgment of the lung crisis and the media’s relentless efforts to smear vaping.
Moral panic over vaping runs against reason, find out why!
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Released: December 30, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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It should come as no surprise that Massachusetts, the state which nurtured the most notorious cases of mass hysteria in American history, the Salem Witch Trials, is also the same state currently perfecting the witch hunt against vaping. On Wednesday the Massachusetts Public Health Council made permanent its ban on the sale of flavored vaping products and mandated signs warning consumers of “severe lung disease” to be posted at retail locations where unflavored vaping products might still be sold.
Massachusetts is not alone as public health bureaucrats in the state of New York voted this week to extend its ban on flavored e-cigarettes, even though the ban is currently held up in court.
What’s driving the vape ban mayhem? And how are consumers being affected?
Find out in this episode of RegWatch with Alex Clark CEO of CASAA, the national consumer advocacy organization for smoke-free alternatives.
Streamed: December 12, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Every attempt to isolate a cause to explain the war on vaping faces its difficulties, as no cause is entirely defective in explanation, yet neither is any satisfyingly sufficient to explain the level of hysteria engulfing the nation. Clues are best found by examining similar phenomenon and terrifyingly, there’s no better example than the decades-long battle in the “War on Drugs.”
In this edition of RegWatch we’re joined by Ethan Nadelmann, founder and former director of the Drug Policy Alliance and member of the advisory board of the Open Society Foundation’s Global Drug Policy Project.
For decades Nadelmann led the fight to end the “War on Drugs,” so he knows all too well the dehumanizing, slanderous, coercive tactics used by moral crusaders. Today he sees those same tactics deployed against vaping; raising his ire and compelling him to join the fight.
What are the similarities between the “War on Drugs” and the “War on Vaping?” And, could the vaping battle be lost?
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Streamed: December 10, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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The deep, dark, ugly truth is often too much to bear. Do you dare to hear the truth?
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Live Streamed: December 9, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
At times it seems like it will never end, the stream of shameful, slanderous, pseudo-scientific research belched from the halls of academia and the darkened corridors of public health. With each new study the same old rehash of claims chips away at the truth, that vaping is a safer alternative to smoking.
Thankfully a small cadre of scientists have dedicated careers to debunking bogus studies and one of the most prolific and well-known of these scientists is Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos, cardiologist and research fellow from the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Department of Pharmacology, University of Patras, Greece.
In this special edition of RegWatch hear Dr. Farsalinos confront the most pernicious of the recent retreads of suspicious studies and learn whether he thinks truth in science still has a chance to win-out.
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Streamed: December 6, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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We’re beyond the cliché of a post-truth world. Tobacco control policy expert David Sweanor says journos @KCroweCBC @carlyweeks and rest of MSM traded ethics for activism and joined the moralist battle against #vaping @CBCNews @globeandmail @tDocsVsTobacco @GovCanHealth #cdnpoli
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Streamed: December 5, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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The notoriously secretive political advocacy group Physicians for A Smoke-Free Canada, are major players in the War on Vaping in Canada. Who are they? What motivates their activism? And is Health Canada one of PSC financial backers?
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Streamed: December 5, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Moralists, prohibitionists and public health make for an unhealthy mix, for thousands of Canadians who teeter on the losing end of mass anti-vaping hysteria
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Streamed: December 5, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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By now it should be clear to all observers that politicians, public health officials, non-profit health groups and the national media are joined in common cause to force Health Canada into abject retreat on vaping.
The endgame is a complete policy reversal on the regulations allowing adult access and choice to vaping products in Canada.
But more than just a U-turn, opponents appear to be demanding from Health Canada an admission that the agency, concerning the science on vaping, ‘got it wrong’ and miscalculated the health risks, impact of flavors on youth use, and the hazards of nicotine.
The pressure campaign is in full swing behind the scenes in Ottawa and supported by legislatures and public health groups from across the country. It’s out in full public view, propagated by activists in the media, such as Kelly Crowe from the CBC and Carly Weeks at the Globe and Mail; to name just a few.
In this edition of RegWatch we are joined by David Sweanor, Ottawa lawyer, renowned tobacco-control policy expert and harm reduction advocate. We’ll dive into the issues and ask: What and who is driving this train towards total abstinence and what if anything could be done to stop it?
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Streamed: December 3, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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*Guest: Schell Hammel, Candidate for U.S. Congress
It’s the central question driving the entire debate over vaping: Keep flavors or lose flavors? No other issue commands the same urgency, not even nicotine. Consider that anti-vaping opponents believe flavors are the primary problem and allege flavors alone are responsible for attracting youth to vaping in the first place. Which then allows nicotine to its dirty business of addicting another generation of youth.
For vaping proponents, the answer to the question of flavors is far from clear. Debate over the issue has left many relationships twisted and tortured as vapers square off, choosing what terrible price vaping should pay, in order to relieve the incessant pressure destroying the industry.
Of course, flavors dominated the discussion at the White House listening session on Friday, which brought vaping industry leaders and anti-vaping opponents face-to-face with President Trump. But were any concrete plans offered to help the industry get out of this mess?
In tonight’s episode of RegWatch we are joined by Schell Hammel, national vaping advocate and candidate for U.S. Congress for the 22nd district in the state of Texas.
Is the vaping industry being forced into a devil’s bargain?
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Streamed: November 26, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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It was a pinnacle moment for the U.S. vaping industry. At the White House on Friday, vaping industry leaders met face-to-face with anti-vaping opponents, public-health advocates and President Trump in what was billed as a “listening session” to address the surge in underage vaping. Issues concerning flavors (including a flavor ban) captivated the discussion and provided for much of the disagreement.
President Trump did more than just listen he also led the conversation, demonstrating a significant understanding of the importance of flavors to adult vapers and for the success of the industry.
In this episode of RegWatch get critical insights and reactions from inside the meeting with session participant and leading industry rep Tony Abboud, the Executive Director of the Vapor Technology Association, and Jon Glauser, VTA Executive Board Member and industry powerhouse.
Was the meeting a slam dunk? Find out!
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Streamed: Sunday, November 24, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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At no other time has the nicotine vaping industry faced such intense controversy. Under fire for the so-called youth vaping “epidemic” and besieged from all sides over the gross allegation that it’s responsible for the so-called “vaping-related” lung illness—the industry is in a fight for its very survival.
While faced with these challenges the industry has fractured into essentially two camps: the open-systems segment that spawned and nurtured the industry, and the closed-pod systems segment, such as Juul, that have exploded in popularity, and which some say, are responsible for the rise in youth use.
In this special edition of RegWatch we are joined by Daniel David the President & CEO of VITA, the Vaping Industry Trade Association of Canada. In September, several vaping companies, including Juul, Imperial Tobacco Canada, which sells the Vype e-cigarette, and JTI Canada joined forces to launch the new trade organization.
What is VITA’s mission? What are its positions on issues such as flavours, advertising and point-of-sale marketing restrictions, nicotine caps and much more?
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Streamed: November 21, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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*Guest: Tristan Thompson, Vaping Legion
True conspiracies, obvious treachery and the maniacal hive mind of the anti-vaping progressive. This is a conversation you don’t want to miss!
+++update on the fight to save vaping in the state of Massachusetts
Streamed: November 20, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford
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**Guest: John Xydous with special appearance by Tristan Thompson
As the jackboots of authoritarian government stomp across North America, it would do well for vapers to note that in at least one jurisdiction, the province of Quebec there is life after a brutal vape crackdown. The Quebec vaping industry is surviving after almost 4-years of operating under an oppressive anti-vaping regime that strips individuals of the right to speak freely and forces companies to comply with arcane regulations that routinely deliver obscene fines i.e. $8000 for a sticker out of place.
In this episode of RegWatch, John Xydous a vape chain-store owner and advocate in Quebec, provides tips for survival and talks about how a major victory in Quebec Superior Court is the game-changer that every vaping activist in the world should know about.
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Streamed: November 20, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading progressive newspaper, published a 5,000-word attack on the Canadian vaping industry at the end of last week and then followed up with a searing editorial on Sunday. As it appears, the purpose of the exposé is to reveal scandalous and potentially criminal marketing practices of numerous Canadian vape companies. In what the Globe and Mail deem is an effort to hook a new generation of young people on nicotine.
Joining us today on RegWatch is ShY Bekman, he’s a board member of the Canadian vaping association and founder and CEO of DashVapes, the largest independently owned e-cigarette retailer and e-liquid manufacturer in Canada addresses the litany of charges leveled by the Globe and Mail.
Is this simply a hit job or is there merit to the claims?
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Streamed: November 18, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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The B.C. provincial government is taking what it calls “bold action” in an effort to stem the rise in youth vaping the province. The new vaping regulations include increasing the provincial sales tax on vaping products, restricting the amount of nicotine in e-liquid to 20 milligrams per milliliter and forcing plain packaging with health warnings on all vapour products.
The new rules stop short of a ban on flavoured vaping products. Instead, B.C. proposes that flavours be restricted to shops that enforce age restrictions on sales. There are approximately 150 such stores in the province that would be able to sell additional flavours.
Many of the proposed changes to vaping in B.C. mirror the policy suggestions made by the Canadian Vaping Association and in this episode of RegWatch hear from Shaun Casey, past President and current board member of the CVA, and the architect of the CVA policy position on vaping.
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Streamed: Thursday, November 14, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
Inarguably, if President Trump decides to dial-back his proposed national ban on flavored vaping products, then millions of American vapers will have only one person to thank and his name is Paul Blair. Blair is a policy strategist for the conservative-based advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform; for many, he’s the hero who crunched Trump’s 2016 state-by-state vote totals and loudly warned the president would lose the 2020 election if he abandons the vaper vote.
In this special edition of RegWatch, shot on location in Washington D.C., we talk with Blair about the still-pending national flavor ban and hear why he thinks CDC misinformation on nicotine-vaping is a “smack in the face.”
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Released: November 11, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Reason Foundation’s Guy Bentley pulls no punches in assessing the role U.S. Centers for Disease Control played in stoking moral panic over nicotine-vaping. Did the CDC know they were wrong about the so-called vaping-related lung illness and did the federal agency purposefully mislead the public?
Find out, in this special edition of RegWatch shot on location in Washington D.C.
Released: November 11, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford
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8 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (United Vapers Alliance)
Released: November 11, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford
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7 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Marissa & James Howard)
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6 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Carl Risk)
Released: November 11, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford
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5 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Tiffany Rubello)
Released: November 11, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford
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4 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Greg Conley)
American Vaping Association
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3 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Chris Lautz)
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2 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Suzanne Sousa)
Released: November 11, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford
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1 - Message to President Trump – Vapers Rally (Brenda Lewry)
Released: November 11, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Tony Abboud, Executive Director, Vapor Technology Association
Released: November 10, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford
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*Special Guest: Dan Vergano, Science Reporter, BuzzFeed News
It’s an old debate and that’s why it seems so vicious. This is how BuzzFeed News science reporter Dan Vergano describes the battle taking place over the Trump administration’s proposed ban on flavored nicotine vaping products. In this special edition of RegWatch hear Vergano’s assessment of the politics, science, media coverage and public health response to the lung crisis, that’s impacting the future of vaping in the United States.
Is there going to be a Trump vaping ban?
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Streamed: Thursday, November 7, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford
At any moment the Trump administration is expected to announce new policy intended to “clear the market” of flavored nicotine vaping products, in an effort to stem the so-called “epidemic” in youth vaping.
Many observers say the Trump ban could have a devastating impact on adult access and choice of flavored vaping products, products which they insist have proven essential in helping millions of smokers to quit.
What are the twenty things you should know about the U.S. flavor ban? Clive Bates, international tobacco control expert is here with the answers.
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Streamed: November 6, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford
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