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.
Episodes
Sep 22, 2022
Sep 22, 2022
59 min
Hard compromises that no one will like is how eminent tobacco control scholar Dr. Kenneth Warner describes some of the recently released recommendations in a new policy paper addressing the struggle over e-cigarettes. The article offers a mix of policy proposals covering critical issues that impact vaping: flavors, taxes, youth use, nicotine, misinformation, and regulatory approval of nicotine vaping products.
In this episode of RegWatch, we take a deep dive into the issues with Dr. Warner and co-author Cliff Douglas, director of the University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network and former Vice President for Tobacco Control at the American Cancer Society.
Are these compromises one can live with? Find out!
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Released: September 22, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Sep 20, 2022
Sep 20, 2022
22 min
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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Sep 9, 2022
Sep 9, 2022
41 min
There’s no mystery as to why nicotine vaping suffers a dismal reputation. Non-profits and foundations like Bloomberg Philanthropies, Truth Initiative, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the “body part orgs” have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and applied tremendous pressure to misinform the public and influence policymakers regarding the potential harms of vaping.
Veteran reporter Marc Gunther joins us today on RegWatch to discuss the impact of private money in the war on vaping. Gunther has written about politics, government, media, and business for nearly 50 years and is the reporter behind the ground-breaking investigative series “The Great Vape Debate.”
Is private money powering the destruction of vaping?
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Released: September 9, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Aug 28, 2022
Aug 28, 2022
12 min
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:
https://regwat.ch/3ztygL2
Aired: 2022-07-30
Produced by: Drea Humphrey (Rebel News)
Aug 22, 2022
Aug 22, 2022
48 min
Is the FDA finally getting serious about fighting combustible cigarettes? For the past several years, it’s been hard to tell, considering the agency’s animus towards nicotine vaping. But some say FDA’s recent move to ban menthol cigarettes may be “particularly effective” in reducing smoking, especially if FDA makes mint and menthol flavored e-cigarettes available as an option to switch.
In this episode of RegWatch, hear why Tony Abboud, the Executive Director at the Vapor Technology Association, believes the Menthol Cigarette Rule could be the most significant step FDA has taken to protect public health, but only if the agency follows its own science on e-cigarettes.
Plus, get a full update on the FDA’s Juul ban, the status of synthetic nicotine products, and the startling news about a top FDA official who jumped to a new job at Phillip Morris International, the world’s largest tobacco company.
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Released: August 23, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Aug 17, 2022
Aug 17, 2022
19 min
What’s driving Health Canada’s war on vaping? Does the regulator favour drug harm reduction over tobacco harm reduction? And is it too late to make a policy change?
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*Guest: David Sweanor, Adj. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa & Tobacco-control Policy Expert
Shot on location in Warsaw, Poland, at the Global Forum on Nicotine 2022.
Released: August 17, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by STLTH
Part of our “Last Stand” Canada coverage
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Aug 12, 2022
Aug 12, 2022
11 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Aug 9, 2022
Aug 9, 2022
24 min
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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Jul 26, 2022
Jul 26, 2022
37 min
What motives seemingly rational people: professionals, scientists, and so-called experts in public health to proselytize and propagandize against safer nicotine products?
Joining us today to pick through this question and more is Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and prolific writer on harm reduction policy issues for major publications such as InsideSources, Center Square, Townhall, and Filter.
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Released: July 26, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Jul 22, 2022
Jul 22, 2022
23 min
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
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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