Incisive coverage of the issues important to vaping. Plus critical debate over the issues and impacts of regulation in both Canada and the U.S.
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Oct 20, 2023
Oct 20, 2023
36 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Oct 7, 2023
Oct 7, 2023
42 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Sep 29, 2023
Sep 29, 2023
22 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Sep 13, 2023
Sep 13, 2023
29 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Aug 10, 2023
Aug 10, 2023
27 min
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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Aug 3, 2023
Aug 3, 2023
18 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Jul 27, 2023
Jul 27, 2023
14 min
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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Released: July 27, 2023
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Jul 14, 2023
Jul 14, 2023
40 min
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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Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023
31 min
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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Jun 14, 2023
Jun 14, 2023
24 min
While the FDA didn’t necessarily create the moral panic over teen vaping, the agency appears to have stoked the fire, doing very little to stop it. There may be no excuses for the FDA’s handling of nicotine vaping products, but regulating in an environment prone to moral panics isn’t easy.
In this episode of RegWatch, Dr. Cheryl K. Olson, health and behavior researcher and behavior science advisor at McKinney Regulatory Science Advisors, discusses FDA’s struggle to follow the science and the parallels she sees between the moral panic over teen vaping and the long-simmering moral panic over violent video games.
Is there reason to be optimistic about FDA regulation?
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Released: June 14, 2023
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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