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INCONVENIENT KNOWLEDGE | Drugs Policy Iconoclast Slams Safer Nicotine Prohibitionists

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0700

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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EXTRAORDINARY PACE | Consumers Move to Vaping Products at Dramatic Rate | RegWatch Rewind

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0700

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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FLAWED BASELINE | FDA Formalizes De Facto Flavor Ban | RegWatch

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:34:30 -0700

The FDA recently issued new draft guidance clarifying how the agency evaluates whether a flavored nicotine vaping product is appropriate for the protection of public health.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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DÉJÀ VU | Insights on Youth Use from JUUL Researcher | RegWatch Rewind

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0700

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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COP-OUT | Who FCTC Punts On E-Cig Regulation | RegWatch Rewind

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0700

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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PLANNED DENIAL | FDA’s Shifting Standards for Vape Authorization | RegWatch

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:09:00 -0700

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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TPD STRUGGLES | Romania Braces for Oppressive Excise Tax | RegWatch Rewind

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0700

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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SOUND SCIENCE | Tobacco Researcher Says ‘Trust the Data’ | RegWatch Rewind

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0700

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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KEEP DIGGING | Consumer Concerns Over WHO’s Upcoming COP10 | RegWatch Rewind

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0700

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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BANNED IN MEXICO | Physicist Reacts to Draconian Vape Laws | RegWatch Rewind

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0800

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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PANIC OVER | Teen Vaping Decline Spells Trouble for Tobacco Control | RegWatch Rewind

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0800

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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SHAME ON YOU | Vaping Activist Responds to Critics | RegWatch Rewind

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0800

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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SUBSTITUTION EFFECT | Canadian Flavour Bans Increase Smoking | RegWatch

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:18:20 -0800

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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Released: February 26, 2026
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HARDLY FREE | U.S. Vape Advocacy in Post “Epidemic” Era | RegWatch Rewind

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0800

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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DE-DEMONIZING NICOTINE | Ending Fear to Promote Benefits | RegWatch Rewind

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0800

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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ENDGAME DELUSIONS | FDA Rejects Reality of Safer Nicotine | RegWatch

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:08:31 -0800

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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DISPARATE SCIENCE | Top Researcher Says E-Cigs Are Game Changer | RegWatch Rewind

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0800

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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MYTH OVER METRICS | FDA Commissioner Rejects CDC Data on Teen Vaping | RegWatch

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:00:09 -0800

“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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NO SYMPATHY | How Tobacco Control Ignores People They Purport to Help | RegWatch Rewind

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0800

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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SAVING CHALO | THR Education on The Big Screen | RegWatch Rewind

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0800

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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BASELINE | Discovering the Similarities Between Tobacco and Drug Harm Reduction | RegWatch Rewind

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 07:00:00 -0800

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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IMPERVIOUS TO EVIDENCE | Tobacco Control Blocks Vaping Debate in Australia | RegWatch Rewind

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:42:34 -0800

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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SUICIDAL POLICY | Michelle Minton & America’s War on Safer Nicotine (Part 2) | RegWatch

Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:27:19 -0800

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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PROGRESS & PERIL | A.G. Miller Scores Smoking, Vaping & Public Health | RegWatch

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:32:36 -0800

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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GOOD COP 2.0 | Day 5 of 5 | RegWatch (LIVE)

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:48:36 -0800

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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GOOD COP 2.0 | Day 4 of 5 | RegWatch (LIVE)

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:59:18 -0800

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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GOOD COP 2.0 | Day 3 of 5 | RegWatch (Live)

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:28:34 -0800

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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GOOD COP 2.0 | Day 2 of 5 | RegWatch (Live)

Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:13:32 -0800

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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GOOD COP 2.0 | Day 1 of 5 | RegWatch (Live)

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 01:52:32 -0800

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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HOSTILE WHO | Exclusionary Tactics Threaten Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:19:33 -0800

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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NICOTINE NIGHTMARE | WHO's COP11 Targets Safer Products Over Smoking | RegWatch

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:10:43 -0800

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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GOOD COP RISING | Fighting the WHO’s War on Safer Nicotine | RegWatch

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:51:40 -0800

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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THE ASK | Vapers Demand Freedom from FDA Control | RegWatch (Live)

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:14:25 -0700

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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PROTECTION BUBBLE | DOJ Raids, Hypocrisy & Fight to Save Vapes | RegWatch (Live)

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:29:35 -0700

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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MORAL COLLAPSE | When Public Health Endorses Teen Smoking to Stop Vaping (Public Statement)

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:08:37 -0700

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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TIMES OF WAR | Trump’s FDA Escalates the Fight Against Vaping | RegWatch (Live)

Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:08:55 -0700

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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SMOKELESS SHIFT | Tobacco Exec on PMTA, Science & Missed Opportunity | RegWatch

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:36:28 -0700

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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BURNED AGAIN | FDA Crackdown & WHO’s Sly Corruption | RegWatch

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:00:39 -0700

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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BEHIND THE FEAR | Dr. Mark Tyndall Challenges Myths About Vaping | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:15:28 -0700

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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UNFORGIVING LOGIC | The Crusade That Forgot Its Cause | RegWatch

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:48:36 -0700

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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CLEARING THE AIR | Debunking Nicotine Bias from Bloomberg to Brussels | RegWatch

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:33:06 -0700

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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NICOTINE MYTH | Two-Thirds of U.S. Healthcare Providers Think It Causes Cancer | RegWatch

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:32:15 -0700

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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IMPORTING PANIC | U.S. Influence Drives Global War On Nicotine | RegWatch

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:38:12 -0700

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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SYSTEM FAILURE | How “Kidification” Rewired Tobacco Control | RegWatch

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:43:40 -0700

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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TECTONIC SHIFT | Consumers Leave Tobacco Control Behind | RegWatch

Tue, 20 May 2025 15:55:59 -0700

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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TRUTH INTERRUPTED | Public Health Insider Speaks Out About the War on Nicotine

Wed, 07 May 2025 22:50:46 -0700

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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Released: May 7, 2025
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DEMONSTRABLE | FDA’s Anti-Vaping Regime Dismantled | RegWatch

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 23:09:12 -0700

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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DAM BREAKS | King Ousted & SCOTUS Balks | RegWatch

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:52:48 -0700

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 PARADOX | Safer Than Smoking, But Still Under Attack | RegWatch

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:32:59 -0700

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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RISK PROFILE | FDA Authorizes Zyn But Keeps Vapes in Limbo | RegWatch

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:53:17 -0700

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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MICHAEL RUSSELL AWARD | Honouring A Lifetime’s Commitment to Evidence-Based Public Health | Rewind

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 23:01:27 -0800

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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BETTER TOMORROW | BAT & The Science for Tobacco Harm Reduction | Rewind

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:04:30 -0800

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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‘PATIENT’ CONTROL | Clive Bates on GFN & The Big THR Conversation | RegWatch Rewind

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:47:16 -0800

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 TARGETS DEMAND VAPE | RegWatch Responds to Lawsuit

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:09:34 -0800

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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NICOTINE CONTROL | Lies, Bans, Politics & Betrayal | RegWatch

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:20:53 -0800

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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ON EDGE | Health Care Providers Wait for Promised Reform | RegWatch

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:31:24 -0800

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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LOST TRUST | PART 2: Origin of Public Health’s ‘Campaign of Deception’ on Vaping | RegWatch

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:02:38 -0800

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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BURN IT DOWN | Can Vaping Be Saved Under Trump’s FDA? | RegWatch

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:54:43 -0800

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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PRIDE & AGENCY | Drug Policy Advocate Talks THR and Vulnerable Populations | RegWatch Rewind

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:01:16 -0800

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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DESPERATE MEASURES | Why Tobacco Harm Reduction in U.S. Prisons | RegWatch Rewind

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 09:56:51 -0800

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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THE NEXT DECADE | Preview of the 10th Global Forum on Nicotine 2023 | RegWatch Rewind

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 10:55:24 -0800

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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CHANGE REACTION | Tobacco Scientist Compares Vapor to Smoke | RegWatch Rewind

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:10:45 -0800

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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MEASURING TRANSFORMATION | Index Ranks Tobacco Companies’ Push to Reduce Harm | RegWatch Rewind

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:03:01 -0800

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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HARD TO ARGUE | Science Is Settling on Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch Rewind

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 09:58:57 -0800

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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NO HESITATION | The “Old Chemist” Talks Safety & Efficacy of Vaping | RegWatch Rewind

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 11:40:51 -0800

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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BAD INFLUENCE | Misinformation & Malice Behind Taiwan Vape Ban | RegWatch Rewind

Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:02:49 -0800

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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Original Airdate: February 24, 2023

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PRISON VAPE | Impacts of THR Policy on the Scottish Prison Service | RegWatch Rewind

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:30:12 -0800

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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TASTING FREEDOM | Why Vaping Thrives After Prison, But Not on The Inside | RegWatch Rewind

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:16:56 -0800

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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ALL IN | Big Tobacco Pivot to Safer Nicotine Products | RegWatch Rewind

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:02:50 -0800

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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PRESSURE TEST | U.S. Vape Industry Argues Case at Supreme Court

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 20:56:30 -0800

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
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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Is TRUMP’S Pick For SURGEON GENERAL Good For Vaping? | RegWatch

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 11:15:15 -0800

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?”

Judge for yourself, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Released: November 24, 2024
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POLICY FRICTION | Special Interest NGO’s Behind Push to Ban Flavours | RegWatch

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 16:06:31 -0800

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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CRUNCH TIME | Will the Next President Save Vaping? | RegWatch

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:31:22 -0700

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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GAGGED | Vape Industry Fights FDA Speech Restrictions | RegWatch

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 21:54:07 -0700

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.

Hear the details, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Released: October 26, 2024
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HABIT FORMING | How Big Tobacco Spoiled Our Food | RegWatch

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:29:43 -0700

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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EYES ON | BAT Discusses FDA’s PMTA Process, Science & the Battle over THR | RegWatch

Sun, 29 Sep 2024 12:20:27 -0700

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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CRUCIAL DECISION | Supreme Court to Review FDA Errors | RegWatch

Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:24:19 -0700

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
Produced by Brent Stafford

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WAR ON NICOTINE | ABC’s 1994 ‘DayOne’ Coverage That Sparked It All | RegWatch

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:06:23 -0700

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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SHORTCHANGED | Truth on Nicotine & Relative Risk Denied to Public | RegWatch

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:47:04 -0700

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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WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE COMMONWEALTH? | RegWatch @ GFN2024

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:18:29 -0700

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

Hosted By: Brent Stafford
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WHOLLY OWNED | FDA Regs Deliver THR Monopoly to Big Tobacco | RegWatch

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:40:18 -0700

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?

Find out!

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Released: August 1, 2024
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HIGH STAKES | Former NJOY Exec on Tobacco Control & FDA Regulation | RegWatch

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:03:41 -0700

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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MENTHOL BREAKTHROUGH | Former NJOY Exec on FDA's Landmark Flavor Authorization | RegWatch

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:17:47 -0700

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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E-CIG INTEL | Surprising U.S. Vaping Market Data & Insights | RegWatch

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:36:33 -0700

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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CONFOUNDING SCIENCE | Inside Look at Flawed Nicotine & Tobacco Research | RegWatch

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:06:12 -0700

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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DEEP IMPACT | Bloomberg’s Influence on the WHO & US Vaping Policy | RegWatch

Fri, 24 May 2024 15:58:24 -0700

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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HANDS OFF | Vapers Call for Health Minister to Dump Flavour Ban | RegWatch

Thu, 09 May 2024 17:22:58 -0700

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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SCORING ENDGAME | Former CDC Tobacco Control Director Talks Battle Over Vaping | RegWatch

Thu, 02 May 2024 17:44:02 -0700

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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INDUSTRY PLOT? | FDA Commissioner Denigrates Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:36:40 -0700

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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HEALTHY WIN | Ford Government Delivers for Auto Accident Victims | RegWatch

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:41:57 -0700

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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REAL THREAT | Health Minister Unravels Canada’s Tobacco Strategy | RegWatch

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:55:15 -0700

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
Produced by Brent Stafford

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CONSUMER REACTION TO FLAVOUR BAN | Health Canada Webinar | RegWatch (Live)

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:08:23 -0700

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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BIG BAD WOLF | Combating Bloomberg & His Media Minions | RegWatch

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:40:37 -0700

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.

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Released: March 14, 2024
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IT’S NOT OK | Flavour Bans Eschew Good Science | RegWatch

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:24:58 -0700

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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DIRECT ATTACK | Anti-Vape Bills Inundate State Legislatures | RegWatch (Live)

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 22:31:11 -0800

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) GOOD COP / BAD COP | RegWatch (Live)

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:38:56 -0800

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) GOOD COP / BAD COP | RegWatch (Live)

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:55:34 -0800

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) GOOD COP / BAD COP | RegWatch (Live)

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:40:06 -0800

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) GOOD COP / BAD COP | RegWatch (Live)

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:36:39 -0800

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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GOOD COP / BAD COP | Day 1 | RegWatch (Live)

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:49:11 -0800

GOOD COP / BAD COP | Day 1 | RegWatch (Live)

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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MONSTER MISSION | Largest E-Liquid Company On Quest to End Smoking | RegWatch

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:48:03 -0800

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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WILL NOT STOP | Tobacco Control Unlikely to Validate Nicotine Vaping | RegWatch

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:38:30 -0800

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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BLISTERING DECISION | Fifth Circuit Court Rebukes FDA’s PMTA Process | RegWatch (Live)

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:32:07 -0800

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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CONTROL & CRISIS | Relentless Pursuit of New Forms of Harm | RegWatch

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:12:24 -0800

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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BAD COP | Global Tobacco Control Conference in Disarray | RegWatch (Live)

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:11:06 -0800

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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BREAKING POINT | Industry Reaction to Flavour Bans & Tax Threat | RegWatch

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:33:00 -0800

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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PUSHING LIMIT | Canadian Economist Troubled by Vape Taxes & Flavour Bans | RegWatch

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 21:21:38 -0800

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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REVERSE COURSE | Youth Vaping Rates Hit Historic Low | RegWatch

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:11:33 -0800

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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FLAVOUR BAN FEVER | Canadian Provinces Threaten Health Gains | RegWatch

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 22:40:58 -0700

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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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES | Perils of Flavor Bans & Vape Taxes | RegWatch

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:23:54 -0700

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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IT’S BROKEN | Unpacking Ontario’s Auto Insurance System | RegWatch

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:00:23 -0700

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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PROVEN CORRECT | Largest U.S. Study Shows E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit | RegWatch

Sat, 07 Oct 2023 10:54:21 -0700

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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USEFUL IDIOTS | Misguided Assumptions Leave Vapers Ignored | RegWatch

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:59:02 -0700

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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SQUARE PEG | Ontario Auto Insurers Push Cookie-Cutter Healthcare | RegWatch

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 22:53:29 -0700

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?

Find out!

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Released: September 13, 2023
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BAD TO WORSE | Australia Careens Towards Prohibition | RegWatch

Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:56:31 -0700

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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Released: August 10, 2023
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NATURAL FIT | BAT Talks Switching Smokers to Vapes | RegWatch

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:41:35 -0700

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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Released: August 3, 2023
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VITAL WARNING | WHO Is Coming for Your Vapes at COP10 | RegWatch

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:56:23 -0700

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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GREATEST THREAT | Orchestrated Campaign Tying Fentanyl to Nicotine Vapes | RegWatch

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 01:24:44 -0700

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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Released: July 14, 2023
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SLICE & DICE | Ontario Auto Insurance Fails Crash Victims & Healthcare Providers | RegWatch

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 21:51:36 -0700

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
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GRAND THEFT VAPING | FDA’s Struggle to Regulate in An Age of Moral Panic | RegWatch

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:27:04 -0700

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
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LOST ARGUMENT | Is Recreational Nicotine the Answer to FDA Quagmire? | RegWatch

Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:57:47 -0700

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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Released: June 9, 2023
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WHO BENEFITS? | ‘Sweet Deal’ For Ontario Auto Insurers, Helps Weaken Health Care | RegWatch

Mon, 05 Jun 2023 23:23:14 -0700

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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Released: June 5, 2023
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ON “GATEWAY” THEORY | Royal College of Physicians | RegWatch

Sat, 27 May 2023 14:15:47 -0700

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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ON QUEBEC FLAVOUR BAN | Royal College of Physicians | RegWatch

Sat, 27 May 2023 14:12:21 -0700

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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TAKING STOCK | Royal College of Physicians on Vape Debate | RegWatch

Sat, 27 May 2023 14:07:26 -0700

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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TIDE TURNING | U.S. Courts Wake Up To “Unlawful” FDA Regulation | RegWatch

Fri, 12 May 2023 17:55:59 -0700

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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CROSS-EXAMINATION | FDA Grilled Over Destructive Vaping Regulations | RegWatch

Thu, 11 May 2023 08:53:20 -0700

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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THINK TWICE | UK Reaction to Quebec Flavour Ban | RegWatch

Tue, 09 May 2023 16:50:40 -0700

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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BURNING OUT | Ontario Regulator Puts Squeeze on Health Professionals | RegWatch

Wed, 03 May 2023 23:49:06 -0700

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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WILL IT WORK? | UK’s Free Vape Scheme, It’s Impact at Home and Abroad | RegWatch

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:53:04 -0700

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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FORBIDDEN | Quebec Unleashes Black Market with Vape Flavour Ban | RegWatch

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:20:00 -0700

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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‘SWAP TO STOP’ | UK to Provide One Million Smokers Free Vape Starter Kits | RegWatch

Sat, 15 Apr 2023 09:40:01 -0700

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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UPSIDE DOWN | Tennessee Vape Vendors Push Back on Big tobacco | RegWatch

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 17:39:52 -0700

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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BANNED | Canadian Vape Advocates Denied Entry to Conferences | RegWatch

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 23:45:39 -0700

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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BIG THREAT | COP10 Bureaucrats to Decide Future of Vaping | RegWatch

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:50:44 -0700

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, 2023
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BLIND EYE | South Africa Makes No Distinction Between Vaping and Smoking | RegWatch Rewind

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:25:15 -0800

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, 2022
Posted: March 8, 2023

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CRIME SCENE | Quebec Moves to Ban Flavours | RegWatch

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 22:56:08 -0800

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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STRANGE & PERPLEXING | Public Health Intransigence Over Nicotine Vaping | RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:51:09 -0800

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, 2022
Posted: March 1, 2023

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PUSHING PANIC | Public Health Stokes Fear Over Vaping | RegWatch

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 21:42:30 -0800

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, 2023
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UNIFIED STANCE | Vape Groups Align for Fight to Save Vaping | RegWatch

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:53:54 -0800

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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ALL IN (PART 2) | Is Big Tobacco A Threat to Vaping? | RegWatch

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 11:49:38 -0800

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, 2023
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IDEOLOGY & ARROGANCE | Public Health’s Struggle with Idealism | RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:13:23 -0800

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, 2022
Posted: January 23, 2023

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BREAKDOWN | Assessing the War on Vaping | RegWatch

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:44:26 -0800

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, 2023
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ILL-INFORMED | Unpacking the Timcast Vaping Debacle | RegWatch

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 15:59:19 -0800

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, 2023
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VAPING IS WORSE THAN SMOKING | Says Tayler Hansen on Timcast IRL | RegWatch

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:27:19 -0800

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, 2022
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STRUGGLE TO FUNCTION | FDA Tobacco Program Panned by Expert Panel | RegWatch

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:30:18 -0800

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, 2022
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HIJACKED | FDA Approval Process in Shambles | RegWatch

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:05:08 -0800

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, 2022
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HARMFUL & DANGEROUS | YouTube Forces Label on Vape Content Creators | RegWatch

Tue, 06 Dec 2022 22:15:28 -0800

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, 2022
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HIGH CERTAINTY | Nicotine Vapes More Effective to Help Smokers Quit | RegWatch

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:36:23 -0800

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
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UNHINGED | Public Health’s Manufactured Crisis Over Vaping | RegWatch

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 22:38:14 -0800

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
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NO MYSTERY | Canada’s Excise Tax on Vaping Means More Smoking | RegWatch

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:58:55 -0800

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
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CROSSED THE LINE | Using Coercion & Force ‘For Your Own Good’ | RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 09:22:57 -0800

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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GROUND ZERO | U.S. War on Vaping Mars Global Debate | Pt. 2 Alex Wodak Interview | RegWatch

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 21:34:46 -0700

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
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HOT MESS | Clive Bates on FDA, EVALI & Youth Vaping Stats | RegWatch

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:11:30 -0700

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
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NICOTINE CONFIDENT | Helping Doctors Advise Patients on Smoking Cessation | RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 10:27:01 -0700

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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FACING RESISTANCE | THR Advocacy in Africa | RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 10:22:18 -0700

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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TAX FEARS | Vape Product Tax Hits 50% Over Retail, Could Get Worse | RegWatch

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 23:18:11 -0700

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
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WREAKING HAVOC | FDA Causes Great Damage with Its War on Vaping | RegWatch

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 23:47:41 -0700

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
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HEAVY DECISIONS | New Excise Tax Rocks Canadian Vape Industry | RegWatch

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:50:08 -0700

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
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PUBLIC HEALTH BLUNDER | Canada’s Vape Excise Tax Could Lead to More Smoking | RegWatch

Sat, 24 Sep 2022 21:09:00 -0700

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
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HARD TO SWALLOW | E-Cig Policy Compromises That Could Save Lives | RegWatch

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:10:56 -0700

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
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COLLECTIVE FOCUS | How Asia Pacific Advocates Fight for Safer Nicotine | RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:00:43 -0700

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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BIG PHILANTHROPY | Professional ‘Givers’ Quest to Destroy Vaping | RegWatch

Fri, 09 Sep 2022 22:46:46 -0700

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
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REGWATCH on REBEL News | Canada’s Vape Excise Tax

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:31:24 -0700

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.

Check out the video and accompanying in-depth article here:
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Aired: 2022-07-30
Produced by: Drea Humphrey (Rebel News)

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OFF-RAMP | VTA Argues for Menthol Cig Ban, Plus FDA Roundup | RegWatch

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:26:08 -0700

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
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OUT OF SYNC | Sweanor Calls For “Rethink” On Vaping at Health Canada | RegWatch

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 21:12:20 -0700

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?

Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

*Guest: David Sweanor, Adj. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa & Tobacco-control Policy Expert

Shot on location in Warsaw, Poland, at the Global Forum on Nicotine 2022.

Released: August 17, 2022
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DON’T DO STUPID | Message to FDA from Tobacco Expert | RegWatch

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 23:27:43 -0700

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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Shot on location in Warsaw, Poland, at the Global Forum on Nicotine 2022.

Released: August 12, 2022
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SAFER NICOTINE PRODUCTS | Getting Serious About Alternatives | RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 11:05:34 -0700

Canada’s top harm reduction advocate says it’s time to consider alternatives to combustible tobacco, over prohibition.

*Guest: Dr. Mark Tyndall, Physician, Infectious Disease Specialist, Former Exec. Dir. BC Centre for Disease Control, Harm Reduction Advocate

Original Airdate: March 3, 2022
Posted: August 9, 2022

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DRIVEN BY SNOBBERY | Prohibitionists’ War on Vaping | RegWatch

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:47:36 -0700

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
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CALCULATING CRISIS | Truth Behind Teen Vaping & Tobacco Mortality Data | RegWatch

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:12:39 -0700

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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*Shot on location at the Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw, Poland

Released: July 22, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford

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RAVAGED BY REGS | Vape Retailer Calls for More Enforcement | RegWatch

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:35:59 -0700

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
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Part of our “Last Stand” Canada coverage

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JUUL BAN | Consumer Impact & Industry Future | RegWatch

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:13:47 -0700

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
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WRONG TURN? | Researcher Reflects on Health Canada’s Vape Restrictions | RegWatch

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:56:09 -0700

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
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CLEAR EVIDENCE | Nicotine Vapes Help Smokers to Quit | RegWatch

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 23:19:44 -0700

*Guest: Dr. Jonathan Foulds, Prof., Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry, Penn State, Cancer Institute

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
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HEALTHY OUTCOMES | Switching to Nicotine Vapes Improves Well-being | RegWatch

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 21:45:49 -0700

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
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TEMPTING PROGRESS | U.S. Vaping Industry Nurtures Wins & Ponders Losses | RegWatch

Mon, 23 May 2022 23:14:17 -0700

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
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DOING HARM | Health Canada’s Confused Message on Vaping | RegWatch

Sat, 14 May 2022 08:47:32 -0700

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
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GRAND SCHEME | NJOY Approved & Menthol Cigs Cancelled | RegWatch

Mon, 02 May 2022 12:19:23 -0700

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
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PRETTY BRUTAL | State of U.S. Vaping 2022 | RegWatch

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 21:30:18 -0700

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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ANXIOUS & ACTIVATED | Canadian Vapers Fight for Survival | RegWatch

Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:18:29 -0700

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
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PRISON TIME? | War on Vaping Goes Criminal | RegWatch

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 22:24:25 -0700

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
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CLEAR THINKING | Insights from Harm Reduction Forum | RegWatch

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 20:30:03 -0700

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
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FOR “ALL CANADIANS” | Did Health Canada Miss the Mark on Vaping Regs? | RegWatch

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 23:49:04 -0700

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
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NEW POWERS | FDA Gains Authority Over Synthetic Nicotine | RegWatch (Live)

Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:24:34 -0700

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
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PUNTED? | Provinces Could Have Final Say on Flavour Bans | RegWatch

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:25:37 -0800

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
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SCHISM | Battle Over Vaping Within Public Health | RegWatch

Sat, 05 Mar 2022 10:51:34 -0800

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
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TAX TROUBLE | Canadian Vape Industry Facing New Excise Tax | RegWatch

Fri, 25 Feb 2022 18:42:13 -0800

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
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“SURPRISE SWITCHEROO” | Industry Legal Challenge to FDA Denial Orders | RegWatch

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 16:29:40 -0800

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
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CASE CRUMBLES | Losing Logic Behind Flavour Bans | RegWatch

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:52:28 -0800

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
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IS VAPING IMMORAL? | Flavour Ban Advocates at Health Canada May Think So | RegWatch

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 22:23:02 -0800

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
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WISHING WELL | Saying “Happy Birthday Mr. Bloomberg” | RegWatch

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:58:36 -0800

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!

Learn how you can get involved with the bloombergbirthday.info project.

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Released: January 26, 2022
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STRICT READING | Could China’s E-Cig Regs Upend Global Open System Supply? | RegWatch

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 09:56:27 -0800

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
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HARD TRUTHS | Arguments Vapers Should Stop Using In 2022 | RegWatch

Sat, 15 Jan 2022 09:32:57 -0800

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
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STOP SMOKING | Healthy Truth About Vaping | RegWatch

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:28:34 -0800

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
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RISKY REGS | Flavour Bans Push Vaping into Black Market | RegWatch

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:20:28 -0800

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
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TAX WIN! | Biden Vape Tax Dead on Arrival | RegWatch

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:43:26 -0800

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
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HARM PROMOTION | Public Health Schism Over E-Cigarettes | RegWatch

Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:00:25 -0800

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
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SAVING FLAVOURS? | Responding to Health Canada Webinar | RegWatch (Live)

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 22:02:05 -0800

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
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HEALTH CANADA | How Vaping Regulations Are Decided, Drafted and Dev | RegWatch

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 19:31:37 -0800

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
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TAXED TO DEATH | Biden Vape Tax Pushes People Back to Smoking | RegWatch

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 16:31:22 -0800

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
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PATIENCE WEARING THIN | Tourism Industry Calls for End to PCR Test Requirement | RegWatch

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:05:44 -0800

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
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ROMAN RUINS | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 19:46:58 -0700

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
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NORBERT SCHMIDT | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 19:33:04 -0700

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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Released: November 6, 2021
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MARK OATES | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 19:20:29 -0700

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
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ETHAN NADELMANN | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 19:05:43 -0700

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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Released: November 6, 2021
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GRZEGORZ KRÓL | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:49:24 -0700

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
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WILL GODFREY | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:32:26 -0700

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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Released: November 6, 2021
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DAVID MACKINTOSH | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 18:16:28 -0700

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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Released: November 6, 2021
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TOM GLEESON | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:45:58 -0700

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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Released: November 6, 2021
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CHARLES GARDNER | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 16:02:13 -0700

CHARLES GARDNER | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

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
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JEANNIE CAMERON | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 08:30:41 -0700

What governments get wrong on vaping | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with Jeannie Cameron, Fmr V.P. Regulatory Engagement, Juul Labs; Fmr Head of International Advocacy, BAT; CEO/Managing Dir., JCIC International.

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Released: November 6, 2021
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GERRY STIMSON | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 22:12:54 -0700

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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Released: November 4, 2021
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DEREK YACH | Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 22:10:21 -0700

COP9 threats and challenges | RegWatch at GSTHR in London, 2021. Interview with Derek Yach, Global Leader in Tobacco Control Policy.

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Released: November 3, 2021
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DÉJÀ VU | New Alarm Over Youth Vaping in Canada | RegWatch (Live)

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 21:46:03 -0700

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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CHAOS & DISORDER | FDA Floats Trial Balloon with Vuse Authorization | RegWatch

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:42:22 -0700

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
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BURIED LOGIC | Public Health Ignores Declining Youth Vaping Rates | RegWatch

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:25:54 -0700

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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Released: October 7, 2021
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INDIFFERENT TRUTH | Youth Vaping Falls, Yet War on Vaping Continues | RegWatch

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:48:35 -0700

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
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INSPIRING | Amanda Wheeler Speaks at GTNF 2021 London

Fri, 24 Sep 2021 12:00:53 -0700

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.

About GTNF 2021
Offers tobacco and nicotine stakeholders the opportunity to reconnect with each other at a time of accelerating change. Together, we can consider and rise to the challenges of balancing innovation and sustainability.

Are you ready to tackle the obstacles and explore the opportunities that the new landscape offers?

Recorded: Sept 23, 2021
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ELECTION IMPACT | Outlook for Vaping with Liberals Return to Power | RegWatch

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:55:50 -0700

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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Released: Sept 23, 2021
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FATAL ASSUMPTION | Spurious Cost-Benefit Analysis Drives Risky Flavour Ban | RegWatch

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:31:21 -0700

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
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RECKLESS REGULATOR | FDA Leaves U.S. Vaping Industry Mired in Chaos | RegWatch (Live)

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:43:57 -0700

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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Streamed Live: September 10, 2021
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RISK REACTION | Tobacco Control Experts Call for Re-Think on Vaping | RegWatch

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 20:45:53 -0700

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
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FORTUNES TIED | Cannabis Industry Joins Vape Mail Fight | RegWatch

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 11:51:18 -0700

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
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PUSH PAUSE | Top Epidemiologist Says Flavour Bans Unhelpful | RegClips (10mins)

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:52:44 -0700

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?

*Guest: Dr. Raymond Niaura, Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, NYU School of Global Public Health

Released: August 24, 2021
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SMOKING RETURNS | NYU Epidemiologist Talks War on Vaping | RegWatch

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:03:14 -0700

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
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*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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‘LAST STAND’ SPECIAL | Challenging Health Canada’s War on Vaping | RegWatch (Live)

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:46:16 -0700

*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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Live Streamed: July 27, 2021

Produced by Brent Stafford and Maria Papaioannoy-Duic

This episode is supported by SIR VAPE-A-LOT - LA VAPOTE - CANADA E-CLOUDS

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? | Deep Dive into The State of U.S. Vaping, Mid-2021 | RegWatch

Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:30:23 -0700

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
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FULLY AWARE | Health Canada Pushes People Back to Smoking | RegWatch

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 18:04:13 -0700

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
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IN FOR A SHOCK | Decoding the war on safer nicotine products | RegWatch

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 16:37:40 -0700

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
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CAPTURING HEALTH CANADA | Big Advocacy Gets Its Way | RegClips (6mins)

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:24:35 -0700

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
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VAPING | The Unintended Consequence of Tobacco Control | RegClips (3:30)

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:14:47 -0700

Is Health Canada paying attention to the unintended consequences of its war on vaping?

*Guest: Janine Timmons, former smoker, vaping products consumer

Released: July 5, 2021
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PUNISHING RESULT | Health Canada Unwinds Legal Vaping | RegWatch (Live)

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:16:03 -0700

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
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Unfiltered | FDA may save vaping | RegWatch

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:06:35 -0700

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
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BALANCE CONCERN | ‘Don’t Obsess Over Teen Vaping’ Says Ian Irvine | RegWatch

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:06:36 -0700

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
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NEWS ALERT | New Brunswick Bans Flavours | RegWatch

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 15:59:52 -0700

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
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LOSING GROUND | Worrying state of vaping in Canada | RegWatch

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:56:54 -0700

Guest: Mike Meatherel, President & Founder, Dvine Laboratories

Released: June 11, 2021
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FATAL FLAW | How Science & Public Policy Fail Tobacco Harm Reduction | RegWatch

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:44:29 -0700

*Guests: David Sweanor & Chris Lalonde

Released: June 8, 2021
Original Stream: May 30, 2021

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WORLD VAPE DAY 2021 | Complete 3-Hour Show | RegWatch (Live)

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:15:13 -0700

Complete 3-hour North American Coverage hosted by RegWatch in partnership with Rights4Vapers and presented by DViNE Laboratories.

Live Streamed: May 30, 2021
Released: June 1, 2021

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CEASEFIRE | Tobacco Control Veteran Issues Call to End War Over Vaping | RegWatch

Sun, 23 May 2021 23:15:48 -0700

*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
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IRON RULE | Fight to Save Flavours in Canada | RegWatch

Thu, 20 May 2021 22:36:03 -0700

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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DEATH & TAXES | U.S. Approach to Vaping | RegWatch (Live)

Fri, 07 May 2021 22:53:56 -0700

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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Live Streamed: May 6, 2021
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FUTURE FOR NICOTINE | GFN21, Global Forum on Nicotine | RegWatch

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 09:21:56 -0700

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.

Is there a future for nicotine? Find out!

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Released: April 24, 2021
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MORAL REACTION | Examining Public Health’s Response to Vaping | RegWatch

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:18:04 -0700

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
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Wiped Out | Canadian E-Liquid Manufacturer Talks Nic Caps & Flavour Bans | RegWatch

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 21:32:52 -0700

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
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E357 - SCRUTINIZED | BLOOMBERG’S WAR ON VAPING PT. 3 | REGWATCH

Sat, 03 Apr 2021 13:46:33 -0700

“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
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E356 - CALL IT COLONIALISM | BLOOMBERG’S WAR ON VAPING PT. 2 | REGWATCH

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:11:17 -0700

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
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E355 - NO SHAME | BLOOMBERG’S WAR ON VAPING PT. 1 | REGWATCH

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 11:40:39 -0700

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
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E354 - LONG MARCH | UNPACKING U.S. VAPE MAIL BAN | REGWATCH

Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:52:43 -0700

*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
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E353 - COMPLY OR DIE | SFATA RELEASES PROGRAM TO EASE FDA REPORTING BURDEN | REGWATCH

Sat, 20 Mar 2021 10:25:36 -0700

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
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E352 - STANDARD-BEARER | MEETING THE CHILD-RESISTANT CHALLENGE | REGWATCH

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:12:04 -0800

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
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E351 - HALE | VENTURED-BACKED VAPING DEVICE TO WEEN USERS’ OFF NICOTINE | REGWATCH

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 15:40:48 -0800

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
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E350 - ART OF WAR | STANDING UP TO NIC CAPS & FLAVOUR BANS | REGWATCH

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:07:39 -0800

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
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E349 - NIC CAPS & FLAVOUR BANS | CANADIAN VAPE RETAILER RESPONDS TO RECENT TURMOIL | REGWATCH

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 09:07:58 -0800

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
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E348 - SUPREME COURT | BIG TIME VAPES & USVA CHALLENGE TOBACCO CONTROL ACT | REGWATCH

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:33:32 -0800

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
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REG CLIPS #35 - FDA ENFORCEMENT | IS YOUR VAPE BUSINESS UNDER THREAT? (2MINS)

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:39:53 -0800

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
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E347 - IS VAPING A SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUE? | REGWATCH (5MINS)

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:16:02 -0800

Hear Professor Lynne Dawkins’s take on whether vaping should be considered a social justice issue.

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E346 - DANGER & DELUSION | IS TOBACCO CONTROL OUT OF CONTROL? | REGWATCH

Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:59:16 -0800

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
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E345 - PRIDE & PREJUDICE | U.S. VAPE INDUSTRY IN 2021 | REGWATCH

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 22:37:06 -0800

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
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E344 - NICOTINE NAYSAYERS | COULD NICOTINE RESTRICTIONS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD? | REGWATCH

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:12:04 -0800

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?

Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Released: January 12, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford

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REG CLIPS #34 - GREAT VAPING RESET | (15MINS)

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:00:31 -0800

Key clips from our episode GREAT VAPING RESET - Guest: Darryl Tempest, Executive Director at the Canadian Vaping Association

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Released: December 28, 2020

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E343 - GREAT VAPING RESET | CANADA MOVES TO RESTRICT NICOTINE LEVELS | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:53:08 -0800

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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REG CLIPS #32 - IS EPIDEMIOLOGY COMPROMISED?

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:40:12 -0800

Key clips from our episode DESTIGMATIZED | Unpacking the Nicotine Controversy - Guest: Dr. Karl Fagerstrom, world-renowned nicotine researcher.

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Org. Stream: December 13, 2020
Released: December 17, 2020

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E342 - DESTIGMATIZED | UNPACKING THE NICOTINE CONTROVERSY | REGWATCH

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:16:52 -0800

*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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E341 - HUGS OVER MASKS | COVID-19 PROTEST VANCOUVER | REGWATCH

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 19:54:25 -0800

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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E340 - CULTURE WAR | DISPATCH FROM GROUND ZERO | REGWATCH

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 11:24:45 -0800

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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E339 - SHUNNED | ESCALATING ATTACK ON TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION ADVOCATES | REGWATCH

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 09:26:36 -0800

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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E338 - IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT | PRINCIPLE BEHIND PUBLIC HEALTH’S WAR ON VAPING | REGWATCH

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 21:39:49 -0800

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

Produced by Brent Stafford

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E337 - SYSTEMIC EXCLUSION | CANADIAN VAPE ACTIVISTS OSTRACIZED | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:57:32 -0800

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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REG CLIPS #31 (E335) - PMTA PROTECTION | BUYBACK PROGRAM FOR U.S. VAPE RETAILERS (5MINS)

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:58:56 -0800

Key clips from our episode CONTAINING CHAOS - Guest: Jon Glauser, CEO Demandvape

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Length: 4:30
Org. Stream: November 6, 2020

Released: November 16, 2020
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E336 - GRINDHOUSE | REGWATCH SIZZLE REEL | SUPPORT TODAY

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:51:44 -0800

Celebrating 5-Years of Vaping Coverage!

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E335 - CONTAINING CHAOS | VAPE INDUSTRY REACTION TO 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 19:01:31 -0800

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?

Find out! Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Live Streamed: November 6, 2020

Produced by Brent Stafford

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REG CLIPS #30 (E334) - SMOKING, VAPING & AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE (6MINS)

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:17:21 -0800

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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Length: 5:56
Org. Stream: October 30, 2020

Released: November 4, 2020
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E334 - MANUFACTURING HARM | HOW COVID-19 IS BEING USED TO DESTROY VAPING | REGWATCH

Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:48:41 -0700

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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Released on October 30, 2020
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E333 - COCHRANE REVIEW | VAPES MORE EFFECTIVE TO QUIT SMOKING THAN GUM OR PATCH | REGWATCH

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 16:10:49 -0700

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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REG CLIPS #29 | WHY CVA ENDORSED THE BC NDP (7MINS)

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 17:29:57 -0700

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.

Key clips from our episode POLITICAL PLAYBOOK - Guest: Darryl Tempest, CVA’s Executive Director and Lead Advocate

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Length: 6:42

Org. Stream: October 14, 2020
Released: October 15, 2020

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E332 - POLITICAL PLAYBOOK | CVA ENTERS ELECTION FRAY WITH ENDORSEMENT | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 20:18:08 -0700

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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E331 - LIP SERVICE? | PACE OF CIGARETTE PHASE-OUT IS NEGLIGIBLE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 06 Oct 2020 19:38:16 -0700

*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?

Find out! Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Live Streamed: October 6, 2020

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E330 - SCIENTISTS SAY SO | MARC MORANO ON CLIMATE CHANGE, COVID LOCKSTEP | REGWATCH

Sat, 03 Oct 2020 06:00:00 -0700

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

Produced by Brent Stafford

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E329 - STRESS TEST | IS UK’S ENTHUSIASM FOR VAPING ON THE WANE? | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:06:58 -0700

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

Produced by Brent Stafford

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REGCLIPS #28 - SYSTEM IS BROKEN | VAPE SHOP OWNERS REACT TO NOVA SCOTIA’S WAR ON VAPING

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 15:00:45 -0700

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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E328 - NO APPEASEMENT | INDUSTRY FIGHTS NOVA SCOTIA’S WAR ON VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 19:36:04 -0700

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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REG CLIPS #27 - SECONDHAND SMOKE HOAX | STANTON GLANTZ RETIRES, LEGACY MARRED BY FRAUDULENT SCIENCE

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 17:24:19 -0700

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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Length: 13:52
Org. Stream: September 9, 2020

Released: September 19, 2020
Exec. Producer: Brent Stafford

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E327 - BANS, TAXES & CONFUSION | NOVA SCOTIA’S WAR ON VAPING | REGWATCH

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:41:06 -0700

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

Exec. Producer: Brent Stafford

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BOOKREAD#1 - HYPOCRISY | BOOK READ FROM THE BUNKER | HANNAH ARENDT

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:38:21 -0700

"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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E326 - DOWN TO THE WIRE | B.C. DEADLINE LEAVES VAPE RETAILERS HANGING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:22:18 -0700

*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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E325 - PICKING UP THE PIECES | SPECIAL COVERAGE OF FDA’S ANTI-VAPING REGULATION | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:43:41 -0700

*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

Sr. Producer: Cindy Schmidt
Exec. Producer: Brent Stafford

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DEADLINE DAY | Special Coverage of FDA’s Anti-Vaping Regulation | RegWatch (Live)

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:30:33 -0700

*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

Sr. Producer: Cindy Schmidt

Exec. Producer: Brent Stafford

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E323 - ONE VOICE | VAPERS RALLY TO SAVE THE VAPE, WASHINGTON, DC | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 21:43:54 -0700

*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

Sr. Producer: Cindy Schmidt
Exec. Producer: Brent Stafford

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E322 - OBLITERATED | U.S. VAPING MARKET PREPARES FOR THE WORST | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:01:50 -0700

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

Sr. Producer: Cindy Schmidt
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REG CLIPS #26 (E321) - SEISMIC SWITCH | CIG SALES REBOUND AS VAPING GETS HAMMERED

Sat, 15 Aug 2020 21:49:40 -0700

*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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REG CLIPS #25 - RESEARCH FIASCO | SHOCKING YOUTH SMOKING RISE “CORRECTED”

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 23:47:07 -0700

*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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E320 - PMTA PURGE | SHOT IN THE DARK, HOPE FOR THE BEST | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:37:39 -0700

*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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E319 - PRESSURE TACTICS | HOW BIG TOBACCO SOURED VAPING AT C-STORE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 20:05:18 -0700

*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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E318 - PIVOTAL MOMENT | DR. DAVID HAMMOND BURIES CORRECTION ON TEEN SMOKING RATES | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 22:41:32 -0700

*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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E317 - NEAR MISS? | B.C. VAPING REGS GROW PROVINCIAL PATCHWORK | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:04:51 -0700

*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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E316 - RECRUITS WANTED | GLOBAL STUDY SEEKS TO CONFIRM VAPING IS SAFE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 23:30:57 -0700

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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E315 - HAZARD OR BENEFIT? | UNPACKING CANADA’S NEW VAPING REGS (2020) | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 22:25:03 -0700

*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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E314 - BAN DELAYED | AUSTRALIAN VAPERS WIN REPRIEVE, BATTLE IS NOT OVER | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 22:44:08 -0700

*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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COVID19 | UK Impact (RegClips)

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:00:13 -0700

*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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E313 - SLICE & DICE | VAPE CRUSADER FIGHTS TOE-TO-TOE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 23:02:28 -0700

*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!

This conversation could go anywhere, don’t miss it!

Live Streamed: June 25, 2020

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E312 - PUBLIC PERSUASION | FINDING A WINNING MESSAGE TO SAVE VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 24 Jun 2020 23:13:32 -0700

*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
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E311 - IGNORING ENDGAME | WORLDWIDE ATTACK ON HARM REDUCTION INTENSIFIES | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 21:16:14 -0700

*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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E310 - VESTING CLAUSE | VAPING V. THE POWER OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:30:40 -0700

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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E309 - MIND-BENDING HYPOCRISY | UNPACKING THE ‘MANIACAL’ WAR ON VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:50:29 -0700

*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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E308 - WORLD VAPE DAY | VAPING ADVOCACY MARSHALS FORCES | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Sat, 30 May 2020 21:26:41 -0700

*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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E307 - SWEET & SOUR | INSIDE THE HIT YOUTUBE CHANNEL BY DASHVAPES | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 27 May 2020 21:50:24 -0700

*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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REG CLIPS #15 - ‘WOKE’ STRIKES BACK | COVID19 LOCKDOWN | DAY #50 (5mins)

Sun, 24 May 2020 14:07:49 -0700

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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REG CLIPS #11 - (EXTENDED CUT) OUTSIDE THE HERD | COVID19 LOCKDOWN | DAY #6 (40MINS)

Sun, 24 May 2020 13:50:51 -0700

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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Org. Stream: March 19, 2019
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E306 - INDOCTRINATION? | EDUCATION UNDER THE GRIP OF COVID19 | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Sat, 23 May 2020 20:00:07 -0700

*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
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REG CLIPS #14 - THE BODY ARGUMENT | TOOLS TO WIN THE WAR ON VAPING (8mins)

Sat, 16 May 2020 11:01:36 -0700

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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REG CLIPS #13 - BEG FOR MERCY | COVID19 LOCKDOWN | DAY #50 (8MINS)

Fri, 15 May 2020 10:40:55 -0700

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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Released: May 15, 2020
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E305 - DELICIOUS IRONY? | NEW STUDIES SHOW SMOKERS DO BETTER WITH COVID19 | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 13 May 2020 22:17:00 -0700

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
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REG CLIPS #12 - NURTURING VIRTUE | BALLAD OF DR. BONNIE HENRY (4mins)

Thu, 07 May 2020 22:37:00 -0700

*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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Released: May 7, 2020

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E304 - RIGGED GAME | CONSERVATIVE FIREBRAND FIGHTS FOR VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 07 May 2020 22:14:00 -0700

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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E303 - JUST SCIENCE? | PLAIN TALK ABOUT THE EFFORT TO DEMONIZE VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 05 May 2020 22:13:00 -0700

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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E302 - WHAT NEW NORMAL? | VAPE BANS, JUNK SCIENCE & DEMONIZATION | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Mon, 04 May 2020 22:12:00 -0700

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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E301 - COVID CHAOS | DAY 3 OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Sun, 03 May 2020 22:10:00 -0700

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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REG CLIPS #10 - OUTSIDE THE HERD | COVID19 LOCKDOWN | DAY #6 (8MINS)

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:36:00 -0700

*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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Released: April 27, 2020
Org. Stream: March 19, 2020

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REG CLIPS #5 - PROGRESSIVE PRIMER #4 | TERRIFIED OF CHANGE

Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:29:00 -0700

*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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Released: April 26, 2020
Org. Stream: March 9, 2020

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E300 - KNOCK OUT BLOW? | VAPING IN AMERICA UNDER COVID19 | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:09:00 -0700

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?

Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Live Streamed: April 22, 2020

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E299 - BROKEN POLICY | WILL VAPING SURVIVE COVID19? | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:08:00 -0700

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

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REG CLIPS #9 - MEDIA HIT JOB | HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE (PT.1) | DAY #6 COVID19 LOCKDOWN

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:35:00 -0700

*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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Length: 8:45
Released: April 19, 2020
Org. Stream: March 19, 2020

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REG CLIPS #8 - WHITE HORSE VAPOR | REGWATCH FUNDRAISER

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 22:34:00 -0700

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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Length: 1:45
Released: April 18, 2020
Org. Stream: April 15, 2020

https://youtu.be/bhHHQKJklk8

E298 - FANTASTICALLY CORRUPT | Vaping to COVID19, Has Public Health Lost Its Way? | RegWatch (Live)

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:07:00 -0700

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
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REG CLIPS #7 - PROMOTING PANDEMIC | DAY #1 COVID19 LOCKDOWN | PREDICTIONS

Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:32:00 -0700

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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Length: 11mins
Released: April 12, 2020
Org. Stream: March 14, 2020

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REG CLIPS #6 - PROTECTING THE LIE | SPORTS SHUTDOWN | COVID CHAOS

Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:31:00 -0700

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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Released: April 12, 2020
Org. Stream: March 14, 2020

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REG CLIPS #4 - PROGRESSIVE PRIMER #3 | WHEN VIRTUE AND TERROR BECOME ONE

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 22:28:00 -0700

*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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Released: April 9, 2020
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REG CLIPS #3 - PROGRESSIVE PRIMER #2 | THE UGLY TRUTH

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 22:26:00 -0700

*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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Length: 8:22
Released: April 7, 2020
Org. Stream: December 9, 2019

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REG CLIPS #2 - PROGRESSIVE PRIMER #1 | VAPERS GOT IN THE WAY

Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:23:00 -0700

*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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Length: 6:18
Released: April 5, 2020
Org. Stream: October 8, 2019

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E297 - NOT ADDING UP | FIRST NATIONS LEADER WARNS PROSPERITY IN PERIL | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 22:04:00 -0700

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!

Find out why, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Live Streamed: April 2, 2020

Produced by: Brent Stafford

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https://youtu.be/tDdqxQUIJZg

E296 - SCIENCE IN CRISIS | PRECIPITOUS FALL FROM CLIMATE, TO VAPING TO COVID19 | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:03:00 -0700

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

Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E295 - TIME RUNNING OUT? | COVID-19, PMTA, SUSPECT SCIENCE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:02:00 -0700

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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E294 - SOUND SCIENCE? | RENOWNED RESEARCHER TALKS VAPING POLICY & PANIC | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:00:00 -0700

*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?

Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Live Streamed: March 26, 2020

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https://youtu.be/HNebkaQDaHI

E293 - UNRAVELLING | BRENT RANTS ON GRIMMGREEN’S TURF | PICKUP STREAM

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 21:59:00 -0700

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

E292 - ONTARIO GOV. TURNS BACK ON VAPERS | ESSENTIAL SERVICE UPDATE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 24 Mar 2020 21:56:00 -0700

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

Time: 2:00pm ET / 1:00pm CT / 11:00am PT

Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E291 - IS VAPING AN ESSENTIAL SERVICE IN CANADA? | REGWATCH

Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:49:00 -0700

DR. JOHN OYSTON MB, FRCA
Anesthesiologist, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Length: 2:15
Released: March 23, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

https://youtu.be/7bfbONpBNjQ

E290 - BOOK RANT | REVOLUTIONARIES

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:31:00 -0700

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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E289 - CONVERGENCE | COVID19 PANIC FEEDS OFF VAPING HYSTERIA | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 16:14:00 -0700

*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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E288 - WHY VAPERS SHOULD DOUBT THE NARRATIVE | COVID19 COVERAGE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:07:00 -0700

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

https://youtu.be/DlOk4-Z-Hoc

E287 - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH | CONSERVATIVE FIREBRAND TACKLES THE HERD| REGWATCH (LIVE)

Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:06:00 -0700

*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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https://youtu.be/SLNgaC74aSs

E286 - TOTAL POWER | PROGRESSIVES POUNCE WITH SOCIETY SHUTDOWN | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:04:00 -0700

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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https://youtu.be/lqyvoSveY2M

E285 - INNOCENCE LOST | HOW VAPING RED-PILLED A DIEHARD DEMOCRAT (REGWATCH LIVE)

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:43:00 -0700

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.

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Live Streamed: March 12, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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#RegWatch #Vaping #NoFlavorBan

https://youtu.be/zpU80xP3cl8

E284 - EXCLUSIVE | LINDA BAULD TALKS PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND 2020 EVIDENCE UPDATE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:14:00 -0700

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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https://youtu.be/O52SX9DCAsc

E283 - NATION UNMOORED | BERNIER TALKS PROTESTS, CLIMATE SCARE & CORONA VIRUS | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:59:00 -0800

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.

Don’t miss it. Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Live Streamed: March 5, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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https://youtu.be/yzbNSMZvTyw

E282 - LEVELLING | PROTESTS PUSH DOWN NOT UP

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:58:00 -0800

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

https://youtu.be/y2ofabhxR2A

E281 - NORTHERN IMPACT | RESPONSE TO PROPOSED WET'SUWET'EN AGREEMENT |IN UNDER 16MINS

Tue, 03 Mar 2020 10:57:00 -0800

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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E280 - NORTH MATTERS | GRASSROOTS FIGHT FOR ECONOMIC SURVIVAL | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:56:00 -0800

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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E279 - SUSPECT SCIENCE | VAPING SUFFERS MOST, FIND OUT WHY | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:55:00 -0800

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?

Find out. Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Live Streamed: February 29, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E278 - HOUSE PASSES FLAVOR BAN | WOULD TRUMP VETO? | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:53:00 -0800

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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E277 - RACE CARD | INCLUDE ALL CANADIANS IN PROTEST DIALOGUE

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:13:00 -0800

@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

E276 - WHO’S BEHIND THE PROTESTS? | IN UNDER 16MINS

Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:10:00 -0800

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

E275 - THE ‘BIG KILL’ | GLANTZ STUDY SCANDAL & TRUTH BEHIND SMOKING DEATH RATES

Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:12:00 -0800

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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E272 - FACTS FIRST | B.C. VAPERS CALL FOR BALANCED REGS | REGWATCH

Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:09:00 -0800

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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E270 - FEAR APPEALS | YOUTH VAPING EPIDEMIC TO LUNG ILLNESS HYSTERIA | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:08:00 -0800

*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?

Find Out! Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Live Streamed: January 31, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape

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E269 - DOCTOR-APPROVED | AUSTRALIAN GPs SHIFT POLICY TO RECOMMEND VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 00:07:00 -0800

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?

Find out! Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Live Streamed: January 29, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: STLTH & DVINE LABS

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E265 - FACTS NOT FEAR | IMPERIAL TOBACCO TARGETS MISINFORMATION ON VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 23 Jan 2020 23:57:00 -0800

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?

Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Live Streamed: January 23, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E264 - CRAZY TOWN | GRIMMGREEN OPINES ON THE STATE OF VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 23:53:00 -0800

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

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape & STLTH

E263 - CONFLATED HARM | DR. POLOSA TALKS TRUTH ABOUT VAPING AND LUNG HEATH | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:52:00 -0800

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?

Find out on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com

Live Streamed: January 14, 2020

Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E262 - CRUEL INTENTIONS | B.C.’S PROPOSED REGS DESIGNED TO CRUSH VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:51:00 -0800

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?

Find out - only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Live Streamed: January 8, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: DViNE Labs

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E261 - TRUMP DECIDES | PAUL BLAIR TALKS INS AND OUTS OF TRUMP VAPE BAN | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:49:00 -0800

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?

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Live Streamed: January 6, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape

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E260 - AGAINST REASON | PUBLIC HEALTH CAREENS OVER CLIFF ON VAPING

Mon, 30 Dec 2019 23:47:00 -0800

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

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape

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E257 - MASS MAYHEM | EASTERN U.S. EMBRACES WITCH HUNT | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 23:46:00 -0800

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

This episode is supported by: FlavourArt & Demand Vape

E255 - PROHIBITION | HOW DRUG WAR TACTICS COULD CRUSH VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:43:00 -0800

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?

Find out, on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Streamed: December 10, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape

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E256 - UGLY TRUTH | RegRant

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 23:58:00 -0800

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

E254 - JUNK SCIENCE | BOGUS STUDIES SEEK RUIN FOR VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:25:00 -0800

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

This episode is supported by: FlavourArt & STLTH

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E253 - SWEANOR | CANADIAN MEDIA PUSH ANTI-VAPING PROPAGANDA

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 23:24:00 -0800

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

Watch the full episode "Got it Wrong"

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Streamed: December 5, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E252 - SWEANOR | PHYSICIANS FOR A SMOKE-FREE CANADA “THEY LOST THEIR WAY”

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 23:23:00 -0800

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?

Watch the full episode "Got it Wrong"

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Streamed: December 5, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: STLTH

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E251 - SWEANOR | ON THE IDEOLOGICAL CAPTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN CANADA

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 23:21:00 -0800

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

Watch the full episode "Got it Wrong"

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Streamed: December 5, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E250 - GOT IT WRONG | PRESSURE MOUNTS ON HEALTH CANADA TO BUCKLE ON VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 23:41:00 -0800

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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E249 - DEVIL’S BARGAIN | KEEP FLAVORS OR LOSE FLAVORS? | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 23:20:00 -0800

*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?

Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Streamed: November 26, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape

E247 - SLAM DUNK? | VAPING INDUSTRY CONFRONTS OPPONENTS AT WHITE HOUSE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Sun, 24 Nov 2019 01:01:00 -0800

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

This episode is supported by: FlavourArt North America

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E246 - BIG VAPE | ISSUES AND IMPACTS OF THE WAR ON VAPING | RegWatch (Live)

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 01:00:00 -0800

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?

Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Streamed: November 21, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E245 - DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE w. TRISTAN THOMPSON, VAPING LEGION | RegWatch (live)

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:59:00 -0800

*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

This episode is supported by: STLTH

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E244 - JACKBOOTS | SURVIVING VAPE CRACKDOWN IN QUEBEC

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:58:00 -0800

**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

This episode is supported by: STLTH

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E243 - HIT JOB? | VAPING INDUSTRY RESPONDS TO GLOBE AND MAIL EXPOSÉ | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:56:00 -0800

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?

Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Streamed: November 18, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: STLTH

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E241 - BEST IT GETS? | REACTION TO B.C.’S CRACKDOWN ON VAPING | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:55:00 -0800

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

E240 - IT’S A SMACK IN THE FACE | PAUL BLAIR | Americans for Tax Refrom

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:54:00 -0800

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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E239 - IT'S A PUBLIC HEALTH SCANDAL | GUY BENTLEY | REASON.ORG

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:53:00 -0800

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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E238 - #8 - UNITED VAPERS ALLIANCE MESSAGE - VAPERS RALLY, WASHINGTON DC

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:52:00 -0800

#8 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (United Vapers Alliance)

Released: November 11, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E237 - #7 - MARISSA AND JAMES HOWARD MESSAGE - VAPERS RALLY, WASHINGTON DC

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:52:00 -0800

#7 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Marissa & James Howard)

Released: November 11, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E236 - #6 - CARL RISK MESSAGE - VAPERS RALLY, WASHINGTON DC

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:51:00 -0800

#6 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Carl Risk)

Released: November 11, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E235 #5 - TIFFANY RUBELLO MESSAGE - VAPERS RALLY, WASHINGTON DC

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:50:00 -0800

#5 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Tiffany Rubello)

Released: November 11, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E234 #4 - GREG CONLEY MESSAGE - VAPERS RALLY, WASHINGTON DC

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:50:00 -0800

#4 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Greg Conley)

American Vaping Association

Released: November 11, 2019.
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E233 #3 - CHRIS LAUTZ MESSAGE - VAPERS RALLY, WASHINGTON DC

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:49:00 -0800

#3 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Chris Lautz)

Released: November 11, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E232 #2 - SUZANNE SOUSA MESSAGE - VAPERS RALLY, WASHINGTON DC

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:48:00 -0800

#2 - Message to President Trump - Vapers Rally (Suzanne Sousa)

Released: November 11, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E231 - #1 - BRENDA LEWRY MESSAGE - VAPERS RALLY, WASHINGTON DC

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:47:00 -0800

#1 - Message to President Trump – Vapers Rally (Brenda Lewry)

Released: November 11, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E230 - VTA INTERVIEW | VAPERS RALLY, WASHINGTON DC | REGWATCH

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 21:42:00 -0800

Tony Abboud, Executive Director, Vapor Technology Association

Released: November 10, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E229 - VICIOUS DEBATE | BUZZFEED NEWS TALKS VAPING BAN | REG WATCH (LIVE)

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 21:41:00 -0800

*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?

Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Streamed: Thursday, November 7, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

E228 - DEMOLISHED | CLIVE BATES TALKS IMPACT OF TRUMP FLAVOR BAN | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:40:00 -0800

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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E227 - RALLY CRY | SILENT NO MORE | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:40:00 -0800

**Guests: Tristan Thompson (UVA, Vaping Legion) & Matt Culley (Suck My Mod)

Thousands of people are set to descend on Washington D.C. this Saturday, November 9, for what is expected to be an epic rally in defense of adult access and choice to vaping products. Only the Trump administration knows whether the rally will come just mere moments after the FDA drops the hammer and bans flavors; leaving thousands of advocates protesting a fait accompli.

In this episode of RegWatch hear from rally organizers: Tristan Thompson head of the Vaping Legion and Board President of the United Vapers Alliance; Matt Culley activist and host of Suck My Mod on YouTube.

If you’re going to the rally learn more about what to expect; if you can’t make it, learn how your voice can be heard. And, join the discussion about the devastating impact of the looming Trump ban on vaping.

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Streamed: November 5, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E226 - BOOK RANT | BELIEVE THE CHILDREN | REGRANT

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 21:39:00 -0700

A wicked take on tobacco-control-led hysteria. A tale only for Halloween.

Streamed: October 31, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

E225 - SILENT SCANDAL | BATTLE COVERAGE WITH JIM MCDONALD | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:37:00 -0700

**Special Guest: Jim McDonald, News Editor at Vaping360.com

Public health officials, anti-vaping pressure groups, and tobacco-control refuse to recognize they have pushed past the limits of sanity. In a deranged effort to prevent youth vaping, anti-vaping crusaders are advocating for policies that they know would destroy adult access to vaping products and force millions of vapers back to smoking.

Nobody knows more about this deranged anti-vaping syndrome than intrepid reporter Jim McDonald. Writing for Vaping360.com, McDonald has filed over 400 stories from the frontline of the ‘Battle to Ban the Vape.’

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Streamed: October 29, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: FlavourArt

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E224 - DIRE CONSEQUENCES | BATTLING FLAVOUR HYSTERIA IN CANADA | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 21:33:00 -0700

On this special edition of RegWatch Live the Canadian Vaping Association’s executive director and lead advocate Darryl Tempest and B.C.-based lobbyist Michael Geoghegan talk through the legislative and regulatory impact of the hysteria over vaping that has gripped the nation. From the proposed flavour ban in the province of British Columbia to Health Canada's reaction to the so-called vaping-related lung illnesses, and more.

It's a don't miss episode of RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Streamed: October 23, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: STLTH and Premium Labs

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E223 - DEEP TRUTH | CONVERSATION WITH VAEP’S KELLIE ANN FORBES | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 21:32:00 -0700

For registered nurse Kellie Ann Forbes it began as a personal mission to better understand the devastating health impacts of smoking. Soon it became a professional crusade to not only better inform patients about the risks of smoking, but to the wide variety of options to quit—including vaping.

This mission brought her at loggerheads with medical colleagues and the mainstream medical profession, ensconced with anti-vaping dogma and misinformation. Thus, the Vaping Advocacy Education Project was born.

VAEP is one of the most active and trusted educational advocacy groups in vaping. In this episode of RegWatch learn more about VAEP’s story, mission and code ethics, and hear what Kellie Ann has to say about the lung-illness hysteria, vaping bans, and the misinformation in the media.

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Streamed: October 22, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: STLTH

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E222 - SCIENTIST SAYS VAPING IS “SHOWN SAFE” | LUNG HYSTERIA IS “MISLEADING”

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:29:00 -0700

As hysteria over the so-called “vaping-related lung illness” proceeds unabated, the attack on science that supports vaping as a less harmful alternative to smoking is renewed in earnest. Key findings of harm reduction science: vaping is 95% safer than smoking; nicotine is not carcinogenetic; vaping is not a gateway to teen smoking; and much more is systematically being undermined by a deliberate campaign to destroy vaping.

In this edition of RegWatch hear world-leading scientist Dr. Lion Shahab from the Institute of Epidemiology & Health, University College London address the what he calls the “misleading” hysteria over vaping-related lung disease and how a decade of use, by over 40 million vapers worldwide, shows vaping to be safe.

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Released: October 21, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E221 - FALLOUT | IS RECOVERY POSSIBLE AFTER U.S. VAPING DISASTER? | REG WATCH (LIVE)

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:29:00 -0700

Many observers liken it to the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The bomb dropped in mid-August and over the past two-months the fallout, resulting from the so-called vaping-related lung illness, poisoned public perception of vaping and fueled a devastating chain reaction of e-cigarette flavor bans across the country.

Is there a possibility for the U.S. Vaping industry to recover? Today on RegWatch we hope to find out as our guest Chris Howard is a true industry insider. Howard is General Counsel & CCO at E-Alternative Solutions, he’s former General Counsel & CCO of Fontem Ventures (blu eCigs) and he holds a leadership role with the county’s largest advocacy organization, the Vapor Technology Association, where he’s Treasurer and Board Member.

If there are answers to be found, we have a good shot of finding them.

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Streamed: Oct 16, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

E220 - KICKED OFF FACEBOOK - CDC DECEPTION | NOT JUST WRONG, BUT HORRIFIC | REG WATCH (LIVE)

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 21:28:00 -0700

*Special Guest: Amelia Howard, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of Waterloo, Vaping Advocate

It could be the largest public health scandal in American history. In a little over two months a cluster of mysterious pulmonary illnesses metastasized into a national health emergency with over 1,300 fallen sick, and as of October 10th, twenty-nine deaths. Americans ranging in age from 17 to 75 years continue to die and the agency responsible for protecting the public from spreading illness—the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—continues to suppress the nearly incontrovertible evidence regarding the cause of this horrific outbreak.

Did CDC’s refusal (that is ongoing) to explicitly identify and warn the public about the extreme risks of using illicit black-market THC products cause needless illness and death? And as CDC sponsored hysteria, which falsely conflates nicotine vaping as the cause, drives millions of vapers back to smoking: Will the federal agency have blood on its hands, decades from now, when millions more die from cancer and smoking-related disease?

Find out only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Streamed: Oct 11, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

E219 - CDC DECEPTION | NOT JUST WRONG, BUT HORRIFIC | REG WATCH (LIVE)

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 21:27:00 -0700

Find out on RegWatch live with public health expert Dr. Michael Siegel.

Streamed: October 11, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E218 - THE WHOLE TRUTH | COLD HARD FACTS ABOUT VAPING LUNG HYSTERIA (SNIPPET)

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:26:00 -0700

A RegWatch Special Series

DR. LION SHAHAB - Assoc. Prof. Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health, University College London

Released: October 9, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E217 - THE WHOLE TRUTH | VAPING IS NOT A GATEWAY TO SMOKING (SNIPPET)

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:26:00 -0700

A RegWatch Special Series

DR. LION SHAHAB - Assoc. Prof. Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health, University College London

Released: October 9, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E216 - THE WHOLE TRUTH | NICOTINE IS NOT CARCINOGENIC (SNIPPET)

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 21:24:00 -0700

A RegWatch Special Series

DR. LION SHAHAB - Assoc. Prof. Behavioural Science and Health, Institute of Epidemiology & Health, University College London

Released: October 9, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E215 - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW (SNEAK PEEK) WITH DR. LION SHAHAB, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:22:00 -0700

Exclusive Interview (Sneak Peek) With Dr. Lion Shahab, University College London

Plus, RegRant on President Trump; Note to Health Canada; BC Liberal's Flavour Ban

Live Streamed: October 8, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

E214- BOOK RANT | WHAT THE H#LL? IS HE TALKING ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE'S WAR ON VAPING AGAIN? | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:20:00 -0700

More RegRant! Deep Book material!

Released: October 8, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

E213 - SHAKY SCIENCE | UNPACKING THE ANTI-VAPING IMPULSE | RegWatch (Live)

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 21:19:00 -0700

***Guest: Jacob Grier author of the just-published book, The Rediscovery of Tobacco: Smoking, Vaping, and the Creative Destruction of the Cigarette***

RegWatch is excited to have Jacob Grier join us for an in-depth conversation about the war on vaping. Grier writes about tobacco, public policy, and other vices; viewers are certain to have read his work in Slate, Reason, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Daily Beast, and many other publications. His latest book, The Rediscovery of Tobacco: Smoking, Vaping, and the Creative Destruction of the Cigarette is an incisive read that is strikingly up to date (published Sept 18, 2019.)

From the historical motivations behind the anti-smoking crusade to the moral impulse driving the current panic over vaping; Grier’s new book covers it all.

How did things get so bad for vaping, so quickly?

Find out, in this special edition of RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Streamed: October 2, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E212 - FALSE PRETEXT | DR. MARK TYNDALL RESPONDS TO VAPING-RELATED LUNG SCARE | RegWatch (Live)

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 21:18:00 -0700

Hysteria over vaping-related lung illness appeared out of nowhere and in a flash consumed the entire North American vaping industry. It began on August 16 with a short media statement issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and by September 11, it had metastasized into a Presidential vaping ban.

Canada was not immune. The following week Dr. Christopher Mackie, medical officer for the Middlesex-London region in Ontario, held a gripping news conference to announce the first confirmed case of vaping-related lung illness in Canada. As was the case in the U.S., although, with more bravo, Dr. Mackie slow-walked the release of critical information regarding the suspect substance i.e. THC or nicotine and then refused to disclose the brand name of the product involved.

Did U.S. and Canadian health officials withhold information that could have protected the public from further exposure, illness or even death?

Find out, in this RegWatch exclusive interview with Dr. Mark Tyndall, North American expert on infectious disease and Professor of Medicine, UBC School of Population and Public Health.

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com

Released: October 1, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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E211 - RIPPED OUT | HOW VAPING BANS ARE DESTROYING THE AMERICAN DREAM | RegWatch (Live)

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:17:00 -0700

The war on vaping escalates with each passing day. On Tuesday the war widened when Massachusetts officially became the first U.S. state to ban the sale of all electronic cigarettes, going further than other states, that have up until now, only restricted flavored vaping products. The ban is effective immediately and will run until January 25. Also, this week, the assault on vaping set its sights on the past, in a new attack on the science—by Public Health England and the Royal College of Physicians—that underpins the harm reduction argument, which drives the support for vaping.

And, with Trump’s national ban on vaping threatening to wipe out what is the fastest growing and most successful small business sector of the past decade, RegWatch talks with two firebrand vapers; women who feel their hearts have been ripped out and stomped on by the President and the ceaseless attacks on vaping.

Hear what they have to say!

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Streamed Live: September 26, 2019

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E210 - CURIOUS CASE OF DR. MACKIE | LUNG SCARE CANADA | RegWatch (Live)

Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:17:00 -0700

It was shocking news to learn just one week ago of the first reported case of illness linked to vaping products in Canada. In a gripping news conference, which we covered here on RegWatch, officials from the Middlesex-London Health Unit in Ontario released details, albeit limited of an Ontario teenager who was put on life-support after using a vaping device.

Dr. Chris Mackie, the region’s medical officer and CEO of health for the Middlesex-London Health Unit didn’t pull any punches regarding his assessment of the cause of the illness, which he says is simply vaping. He makes no distinction between traditional nicotine vaping and the vaping of illicit THC products which have been identified as the likely cause of the outbreak of illness and death in the United States.

During Wednesday's news conference, Dr. Mackie was asked if he could identify the substance in question that was vaped and while acknowledging that he knew the answer he refused to make that information public. He also indicated that he knew the brand of the product, but Mackie again refused to release that information.

In this edition of RegWatch Live industry insiders Maria Papaioannoy-Duic and Jonathan Marshall discuss the controversy and their concerns over the lack of information being provided, and the incessant campaign to demonize vaping.

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Released: September 25, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

E209 - VILIFIED | MISINFORMATION AND IRRESPONSIBLE REPORTING TAKE ITS TOLL | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 21:16:00 -0700

***Special Guest: Dimitris Agrafiotis @VapinGreek***

It’s been four weeks since news of vaping-related illnesses first made international headlines and during this short time the prospects for the future of nicotine vaping, as a tool for harm reduction, have been shattered. As a mountain of misinformation promulgated by public health agencies and anti-vaping pressure groups stoked a feverish mainstream media, all too happy to vilify vaping.

Joining RegWatch today for this “end of week round-up” is 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, you’ve got it!

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: September 20, 2019

E208 - CRASHING THE SYSTEM | LUNG SCARE HITS CANADA | RegWatch (Live)

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:14:00 -0700

Without question, the system is failing. The very people and institutions we rely upon to provide accurate information about health-related matters are captured by rhetoric and slavishly denying science. If the system is failing, is it time for the people to crash it?

Today RegWatch is doing a series of crash tests on our pesky live stream gear. While doing so we provide a blow-by-blow of Canada’s first case of pulmonary lung-illness. Joining us is a national vaping advocate, Thomas Kirsop.

In this totally unscripted episode of RegWatch Live…if we do this right…WE WILL CRASH the live stream!! But don’t worry we will also fix it.

Produced by: Brent Stafford

Released: September 18, 2019

E207 - TRUMP TREATMENT | TEXAS VAPING ICON TACKLES FLAVORED VAPE BAN | REGWATCH (LIVE)

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 21:13:00 -0700

Not too long ago the question on everyone’s mind was: Could Trump save vaping? Today the question is: How to save vaping from Trump? In this upcoming episode of RegWatch Live Schell Hammel, national vaping advocate and Texas retail chain owner, tackles the Trump administration’s misguided plan to ban flavored vaping products. While providing frank Texas advice to the President, and to those in vaping, who hope to survive the epic propaganda nightmare that has engulfed the U.S. vaping industry.

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Streamed: September 16, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

E206 - VAPING SAVES LIVES | IF YOU SMOKE, MAKE THE SWITCH SAYS PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 21:11:00 -0700

In an extraordinarily prescient interview with RegWatch mid-summer Martin Dockrell, the head of tobacco issues at Public Health England feared if vaping products are pulled off the U.S. market “a whole bunch of smokers who might otherwise have quit never will. And they'll die and that will be a tragedy.”

In this full-length edition of our exclusive interview, hear Dockrell outline his concerns over the future of vaping and why the UK approach to the war on smoking has been an enormous success.

Does vaping save lives? Find out!

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: September 14, 2019

E205 - TRUMP’S WAR ON VAPING | INTENDS TO “CLEAR THE MARKET” OF FLAVORED VAPING PRODUCTS

Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:10:00 -0700

President Trump said the U.S. plans to pull most vaping products from the market, citing growing concerns about health hazards and rising use by teenagers of the trendy alternative to traditional cigarettes.

Michelle Minton, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute joins RegWatch to discuss Trump’s War on Vaping and the progressive underpinnings of the battle to ban the vape.

Produced by Brent Stafford
Released September 11, 2019

E204 - OBSCURING TRUTH: DID CDC AND FDA FAIL THE PUBLIC IN LUNG SCARE?

Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:09:00 -0700

*** with Dr. Michael Siegel *** The past few weeks have been horrific for the approximately 400 victims (and families) poisoned by illicit THC-vaping products—some fatally. It’s a real tragedy and certainly a public health emergency. But these are not the only victims; tens of millions of people who rely on traditional nicotine-vaping products as a lifeline to quit smoking (or to stay quit) now find access to these products threatened, or in the case of the state of Michigan, revoked, restricted, denied.

In this edition of RegWatch Dr. Siegel evaluates FDA, CDC and non-profit health groups’ lack of clarity regarding the nature of the emergency; an emergency which should have first, and only, been described as a product tampering or tainted product crisis. Instead, health officials warned the public to stop using e-cigarettes; maligning traditional nicotine-vaping and obscuring the truth.

What caused these illnesses? And, why does it appear the CDC is doing everything in its power to protect the illicit THC-vape trade while deflecting blame onto the legal, retail vaping industry?

Find out. Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

***FULL INTERVIEW***

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: September 10, 2019

E203 - VAPING 95% SAFER? | PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND | SNIPPET

Sat, 07 Sep 2019 21:02:00 -0700

Weeks prior to the first cases of vaping-related lung illness hitting the news, RegWatch conducted an exclusive interview with Martin Dockrell the Tobacco Programme Lead at Public Health England.

PHE is the UK’s top health protection agency and employs 5,000 staff who are mostly scientists, researchers, and public health professionals. Public Health England is a beacon of sound science and for the past 5-years has a been a strong advocate for the use of e-cigarettes as a tool to stop smoking.

While the recent deaths and illnesses associated with vaping are tragic, the confounding of traditional nicotine-vaping with illicit black-market THC-vaping could have dire consequences.

In this snippet of our exclusive interview with Public Health England, hear Dockrell discuss how vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking and learn the science behind this determination.

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: September 7, 2019

E202 - DANGEROUS POWER | MICHIGAN GOVERNOR BANS SALE OF FLAVORED E-CIGARETTES

Thu, 05 Sep 2019 21:00:00 -0700

It’s a logical conclusion, following a year of incessant misinformation and media hype over the so-called epidemic of teen vaping and the recent crisis over vaping-related lung disease—it seems the epidemic rhetoric has finally metastasized into the desired result: an out-right-ban on vaping products.

On Wednesday Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order banning the sale of flavored e-cigarettes across Michigan, in an effort to discourage teens and other young people from vaping. The governor says it’s a public health emergency and she has the unilateral power to ban vaping in her state.

Is this order legal? What will be the impact? And, could Michigan set a dangerous precedent for other states to follow?

Gregory Conley, President of the American Vaping Association joins RegWatch to discuss these questions and hear Gov. Whitmer explain the rationale behind her decision.

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: September 5, 2019

E199 - LUNG SCARE | RESPIRATORY EXPERT QUESTIONS LINKS TO TRADITIONAL VAPING

Wed, 21 Aug 2019 05:08:00 -0700

Progressives’ war on vaping escalated to a new and dangerous phase in the past few weeks, going well beyond mere misinformation and hysterical rhetoric. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, nearly 100 people, mostly teens, have been hospitalized with severe lung damaged; apparently the result of vaping.

The allegations have made national news, yet medical officials say they do not know what products, brands or substances were being used. So how then is the CDC able to blame vaping?

In this headline edition of RegWatch we talk with Dr. Riccardo Polosa, Director of the Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology at University of Catania, Italy. Dr. Polosa is the world’s foremost researcher studying the effects of vaping on the respiratory system, and in this episode learn why he thinks these allegations of vaping-related lung damage are beyond credible.

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: August 21, 2019

E198 - CROSS-BORDER FIRE | COULD MANUFACTURING STANDARDS DOUSE THE FLAMES?

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 05:10:00 -0700

If your house is on fire, is it worth it to worry, about the fire-resistance rating of your living room sofa set? It might be, depending on which room the fire is burning and whether your escape route runs past the living room couch. This type of calculation now besets both the U.S. and Canadian vaping industries.

In this episode of RegWatch hear how an alliance of vaping associations from north and south of the border are working to establish a unified set of standards for Good Manufacturing Practices, ready-made, for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada to embrace.

Could manufacturing standards that are fit for purpose, help douse the cross-border fire which currently engulfs vaping?

Find out! Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: August 17, 2019

E197 - SURVIVAL PLANNING | PMTA ADVICE FOR INDEPENDENT E-LIQUID COMPANIES

Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:48:00 -0700

It’s mostly a cliché to say time is a precious commodity: of course, it is. We all live under the specter of imminent demise. But cruel is life when someone or something intervenes and pronounces an abrupt end, thus stealing away time so vital to life and business.

In this episode of RegWatch we present a practical guide to FDA’s onerous Premarket Tobacco Application process which—thanks to a recent court ruling—is now due in less than 10-months. It seems that time, for the U.S. vaping industry, could be coming to an end.

Is it possible to survive the PMTA process?

Find out! Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: August 6, 2019

E196 - SNIPPET | SURVIVING THE PMTA DEADLINE

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 20:47:00 -0700

Mountains of paperwork, clinical trials, endless frustration and most of all, heartbreak. This describes the onerous Premarket Tobacco Application process (or PMTA) now thrust upon the vaping industry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: it could destroy vaping as we know it.

In this RegWatch preview regulatory lawyer and FDA compliance expert, Deanna Clark-Esposito shares insight into the PMTA process and talk through some of the challenges to surviving the PMTA deadline.

**Full-length interview out next episode**

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: August 1, 2019

E195 - DEAD-END | NYU SCIENTIST PUTS ‘GATEWAY THEORY’ TO REST

Mon, 29 Jul 2019 05:11:00 -0700

Where’s the evidence? It’s a simple question asked by vapers (in rare unanimity,) while suffocating under an endless torrent of inflated and distorted harms promulgated to malign vaping. At times the charges hurled from academia, public health and non-profit pressure groups appear to almost border on malevolence. And for many vapers, the strain is becoming too much the bear.

In this special edition of RegWatch see our full-length interview with Dr. Raymond Niaura, Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at NYU College of Global Public Health, and hear his full analysis of U.S. teen vaping and smoking rates; get an insiders perspective on Truth Initiative and learn what the anti-vaping pressure group knows about nicotine; and learn why Dr. Niaura believes the research on vaping as a gateway-to-smoking is a “dead-end”.

It’s time for evidence!

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: July 29, 2019

E194 - SNIPPET | DR. RAYMOND NIAURA TALKS YOUTH VAPING ‘EPIDEMIC’

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:44:00 -0700

It took many months before public health researchers, or members of the public, could see the data used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the United States Surgeon General to raise alarm over the so-called epidemic of teen vaping.

In this RegWatch preview Dr. Raymond Niaura, Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at NYU College of Global Public Health, shares his analysis of the now released data. Find out why the results could be subject to debate.

**Full-length interview out next episode**

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: July 24, 2019

E193 - STOP SALE | E-LIQUIDS THREATENED BY SURPRISE REGULATION

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:47:00 -0700

U.S. e-liquid manufacturers may have to pull millions of bottles of e-juice off of vape stores shelves following a surprise mandate, issued via tweet, by a recently appointed Republican Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission earlier this year.

The unexpected regulation covers e-liquids containing nicotine that are bottled without special “flow restricted” packaging—both plastic and glass—and comes with an immediate stop sale order that provides U.S. e-liquid manufacturers zero time to bring existing products and production lines into compliance.

Why did CPSC issue the order? What enforcement action is underway? And what is being done to help the vaping industry survive?

Find out on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: July 8, 2019

E192 - JUST A BLIP? | SCRUTINIZING RESULTS OF CONTROVERSIAL TEEN VAPING STUDY

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 18:50:00 -0700

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 again in June 2019 when the study was finally published in the British Medical Journal.

What Professor Hammond and those he selectively shared the data with knew was that the study found a massive increase in the prevalence of teen vaping and smoking (among 16 to 19-year olds) from 2017 to 2018.

The sneak peek Hammond afforded Health Canada provided the regulator enough justification to launch a series of public consultations that are likely to end with new regulations, which may restrict adult access and choice of vaping products, in order to stem the so-called ‘epidemic’ of teen vaping.

In this special edition of RegWatch Dr. Chris Lalonde, professor of psychology at the University of Victoria, joins in an examination of the now public results, of what has become, a controversial study.

Does the study’s reported 45% increase in teen smoking square with newly released data by Statistics Canada (also in June 2019) that shows daily teen smoking is statistically near undetectable?

Is the study’s reported 74% increase in teen vaping based on relevant measures?

Find out—Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: July 3, 2019

E189 - UNCONSTITUTIONAL | JUDGE TOSSES KEY PROVISIONS OF QUEBEC’S ANTI-VAPING LAW

Wed, 22 May 2019 18:35:00 -0700

It’s a huge win for the vaping industry. A Superior Court judge invalidates key provisions of Quebec's Tobacco Control Act, which promulgated harsh new regulations and fines, seemingly intended to eviscerate the vaping industry.

The ruling comes after a three-year legal challenge spearheaded by the Canadian Vaping Association, which argued the vaping restrictions infringe on the “right to security of the person” and “freedom of expression” under both the Canadian and Quebec charters of rights and freedoms.

In this episode of RegWatch hear about the ground-breaking ruling directly from Audrey Boctor the lawyer who led the fight and learn exclusive details about the court trial, expert witnesses and what happens next. Also, Daniel Marien president of the 35-store La Vape Shop retail chain joins the show to discuss the draconian rules and hear his reaction to the ruling.

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: May 22, 2019

E187 - CHERRY-PICK | EXPERT ANALYSIS OF LEAKED VAPING STUDY

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 04:53:00 -0700

Since November 2018, when University of Waterloo Professor David Hammond first shared results of his new youth vaping study with Health Canada and the mainstream media, only one interpretation of the data has been made available to the public. And that interpretation is one of high alarm.

In February and April of 2019, Health Canada launched two separate public consultations seeking input on potential regulatory action that might stem the crisis of youth vaping. However, industry stakeholders, harm reduction advocates and members of the public had yet to be afforded access to Professor Hammond’s study in order to evaluate the data and test the interpretation.

RegWatch was provided a copy of the study by a highly-placed source within the tobacco-control community and last Thursday we published the document so that the public may see the same data, findings and conclusions being considered by regulators as they deliberate over the future of vaping in Canada and the U.S.

In this episode of RegWatch hear tobacco control policy expert Clive Bates’s analysis of the study and learn what he thinks of RegWatch’s decision to publish.

Only on RegWatch—By RegulatorWatch.com

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: April 29, 2019

E186 - LEAKED | PUBLIC GETS LONG OVERDUE LOOK AT YOUTH VAPING STUDY

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 04:56:00 -0700

It’s quite possibly the worst kept secret within the tight-knit ranks of tobacco-control, the research study conducted by Dr. David Hammond of the University of Waterloo, which purports to show a substantial increase in youth vaping in both Canada and the United States.

Numerous stakeholders including regulators, academics, tobacco-control activists and even the media have either seen the report or have been briefed on its findings; every one that is, except those in the vaping industry, harm reduction advocates and members of the public.

RegWatch has obtained a copy of the study and in this brief live streamed edition we are releasing it to the public so you may see the same data, findings, and conclusions being considered by regulators as they deliberate over the future of vaping in Canada and the U.S.

Download the report at RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: April 25, 2019

E185 - SHOE DROPS | HEALTH CANADA PUTS FLAVOURS, NICOTINE & ADULT ACCESS ON THE TABLE

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 05:04:00 -0700

***RegWatch Exclusive Interview (Part 2)***

Regulatory intervention on flavours in vaping products (i.e. a flavour ban) is ‘not’ off the table says James Van Loon, Director General of the Tobacco Control Directorate at Health Canada.

The federal regulator is considering every measure to stem the tide of youth vaping and is calling on parents, educators, youth and public stakeholders to weigh in on key issues in a consultation on potential regulatory measures to reduce youth access and appeal of vaping products in Canada.

In part-2 of our exclusive interview with Director General Van Loon, hear a detailed discussion on youth vaping statistics, flavours, nicotine salts, online sales, the upcoming federal election and much more.

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: April 22, 2019

E184 - WITH ALL DUE SPEED | HEALTH CANADA REACTS TO YOUTH VAPING ‘EPIDEMIC’

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:05:00 -0700

***RegWatch Exclusive Interview (Part 1)***

If left unchecked, youth vaping poses an “existential threat” to the vaping industry in Canada. This is the warning James Van Loon, Director General of the Tobacco Control Directorate at Health Canada, gave to industry stakeholders when it became clear to the regulator that the crisis of youth vaping—unfolding in the United States—had spread to Canada. The concern is real and substantial.

Shot on location at Health Canada’s national headquarters, learn what the Director General thinks about the critical issues: youth vaping data; nicotine addiction; the media bias against vaping; relative risk statements; advertising & promotion; adult access; and much more.

What may be asked of the industry to stem the tide of youth vaping?

Find out, in Part-1 of this 2-part exclusive interview.

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: April 16, 2019

E183 - DEMONIZED | CANNABIS VS. NICOTINE PARADOX (DR. MARK TYNDALL)

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 05:07:00 -0700

Public health has a penchant for demonizing the use of particular products that it considers to be unhealthy. And while the practice is recognized as an effective method to modify behavior, there are unintended consequences.

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: April 6, 2019

E182 - MORAL PANIC | DIAGNOSING THE YOUTH VAPING ‘EPIDEMIC’

Sat, 06 Apr 2019 04:57:00 -0700

Stoked by public health special interest groups a litany of frightening headlines has splashed across Canadian newspapers and TV news screens: Vaping Addicts Youth to Nicotine; Youth Vaping Leads to Youth Smoking; Vaping Is an Urgent Threat to Public Health.

For many Canadians, the news is shocking and worrisome, yet also confusing. Considering the fact that less than one-year-ago the Federal Liberal government made vaping products with nicotine legal in Canada—with the full acknowledgment that vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking.

In this RegWatch feature interview, hear what Dr. Mark Tyndall, Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health and former Executive Director of the BC Centre for Disease Control thinks about the pressure campaign to rollback vaping regulations and why he says it's based on a contrived “moral panic.”

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: April 6, 2019

E181 - WHIPLASH | TOP E-JUICE CEO REACTS TO YOUTH VAPING EPIDEMIC

Sat, 30 Mar 2019 04:58:00 -0700

With the ink barely dry on legislation legalizing vaping products in Canada, the industry finds itself facing an existential threat: an epidemic of youth vaping.

In response to the alarm over youth use, tobacco-control activists are lobbying Health Canada to crack down on the advertising and promotion of vaping products, such as JUUL and Vype, while also pressing to limit adult access and choice in order to combat the perceived crisis.

In this edition of RegWatch hear what the CEO of a top Canadian e-juice company thinks of the turmoil rocking the industry—Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: March 30, 2019

E180 - VAPING - IS IT AN URGENT THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH? (REGWATCH LIVE)

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 05:00:00 -0700

Join us this Sunday, March 24th for an in-depth discussion of the widening war against vaping in Canada.
Guest: Thomas Kirsop

Some of the stories to be discussed:
They don’t have to die. But I can’t tell you that | Letter
Vaping an urgent threat to public health: experts (CityNews)
Vaping is an urgent threat to public health (opinion)
Ottawa needs to protect our kids from nicotine addiction
Smoke for thought

Kirsop is a 47 year old father of four who smoked his first cigarette at the age of 9, and his last at the age of 43. Currently Thomas, along with his wife are he sole shareholders in an incorporated small business venture operating two shops in central Alberta offering alternatives to adult smokers. Thomas is an advocate for vaping as a harm reduction tool, has served on the board of the Electronic Cigarette Trade Association (ECTA) of Canada, and continues to support that organization with his research and writing skills.

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Streamed Live: March 24, 2019

E179 - TEEN EPIDEMIC | EXPERT SAYS RESEARCH IS BIASED AND FLAWED

Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:01:00 -0700

Considering the ceaseless media coverage and the constant threat of retribution by regulators and anti-vaping non-profit health groups, one would think there exists a large body of scientific evidence to back up the claim that youth vaping has become a public health crisis; but apparently, there is not. Or, if the evidence exists, it’s not been made available to the public, the industry or to other researchers who specialize in tobacco harm reduction. Why not?

Find out in this extended RegWatch interview with Dr. Brad Rodu, Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville, Kentucky and 25-year veteran tobacco harm reduction.

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: March 21, 2019

E175 - REG RANT | PREJUDICE AGAINST DISTINCTIONS THREATENS SMOKERS

Sat, 16 Mar 2019 05:02:00 -0700

There are plenty of theories about why so many people seem to hold maniacal dispositions against vaping. Are they in bed with big tobacco? Or maybe they work for big pharma? Some may simply have an authoritarian personality and like telling people how to live their lives. It could be all of these reasons and more: Including prejudice.

Find out how in our inaugural edition or “Reg Rant” by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford

Released: March 16, 2019

E173 - BALLISTIC | SURPRISING INSIGHTS ON VAPING BY TOBACCO CONTROL

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 22:57:00 -0700

For many within the tobacco control movement the debate over vaping—considering the decades spent fighting big tobacco—is filled with contradiction. On one hand, you have the cigarette which is proven to be deadly and on the other, you have vaping, which despite relentless demonization is considered by even the most ardent critic, to be a much safer alternative to smoking. As the saying goes within vaping advocacy: Smoking kills and vaping saves lives.

But this axiom presents a difficult challenge as the minute big tobacco got involved in the vaping industry the antennae of long-time tobacco control advocates went ballistic: the tobacco industry’s business is to hook people on a lifelong addiction to nicotine, and for many within tobacco control, the business of vaping appears to be no different.

In this special extended edition of RegWatch hear from top tobacco control advocate Michael Perley as we discuss the reported epidemic of youth vaping; the impact of nicotine use on the adolescent brain; the battle to ban retail sales to minors; and the role specialty vape shops could play in a responsible future.

Surprising insights you don’t want to miss!

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: March 13, 2019

E172 - IS VAPING 95% SAFER? | TOBACCO CONTROL

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:56:00 -0800

Vaping is 95-percent safer than smoking: This fact, courtesy of Public Health England is the go-to rejoinder for every vaping advocate seeking to counter misinformation about the health effects of vaping. But is vaping really this safe?

In this RegWatch special series snippet hear from Michael Perley, Director at Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco and learn what he thinks about 95-percent safer?

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: March 9, 2019

E171 - TOBACCO CONTROL | IS THERE A YOUTH VAPING EPIDEMIC?

Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:56:00 -0800

Since September 15th of last year, a single word haunts the vaping industry: epidemic. The United States Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb used the term to describe an alarming increase in youth vaping, due in no small part to the massive popularity of Juul.

RegWatch is launching a special series of coverage examining the issues facing the Canadian vaping industry as it braces for regulatory action in the wake of the youth vaping epidemic spreading from the U.S. to Canada. But is it an epidemic?

In this special series snippet hear what one of the nation’s top tobacco-control advocates thinks—only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: March 9, 2019

E170 - COLLUSION | DIRTY DETAILS OF THE COORDINATED EFFORT TO KILL VAPING

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 22:55:00 -0800

COLLUSION | Dirty Details of the COORDINATED effort to KILL VAPING
***New Release***

Vapers are more prone to suspicion than the average member of the public. As former smokers, they were the victims of subterfuge and duplicity at the hands of big tobacco. But could wild-eyed theories of government collusion with academia, public health interest groups and the media in an effort to kill vaping, be true?

The answer appears to be yes and the details are not pretty.

In this episode of RegWatch Michelle Minton, Sr. Fellow from the Competitive Enterprise Institute and author of the exhaustive report “Fear Profiteers: How E-Cigarette Panic Benefits Health Activists,” pulls back the curtain to expose the motives and tactics behind the public health war against vaping.

Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: February 7, 2019

E169 - COLONIALISM AND THE WAR ON VAPING (SNIPPET)

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 05:03:00 -0800

Is there a connection between the war on vaping and rabid anti-colonialism? Could the maniacal hatred of everything tobacco be rooted in the founding of America?

In this RegWatch Snippet we set forth this hypothesize: What do you think?

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: January 7, 2019