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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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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: October 10, 2025
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Saturday Oct 04, 2025
Saturday Oct 04, 2025
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
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Saturday Sep 27, 2025
Saturday Sep 27, 2025
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
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
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
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Saturday Sep 06, 2025
Saturday Sep 06, 2025
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
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
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
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
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
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Thursday Jul 10, 2025
Thursday Jul 10, 2025
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
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Saturday Jun 28, 2025
Saturday Jun 28, 2025
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
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Thursday Jun 05, 2025
Thursday Jun 05, 2025
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
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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