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
Oct 18, 2022
Oct 18, 2022
20 min
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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Oct 13, 2022
Oct 13, 2022
35 min
It’s hard to imagine how Canada’s new excise tax on nicotine vaping products won’t drive scores of people back to smoking. When combined with the sales tax, the effective federal tax rate on most vaping products bloats to more than 50 percent over retail.
This massive increase in price pushes vaping products precariously close to the cost of smoking. Smokers lose a prime incentive to quit, and new vapers may abandon their effort and return to smoking.
Ian Irvine, Professor of Economics at Concordia University and Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, is joining us today to discuss the economic and social consequences of the new excise tax. Hear about the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue Canadian vapers are sending to Ottawa and the colossal damage facing the Canadian vaping industry after a half-billion-dollar revenue loss.
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Released: October 14, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford
Part of our “Last Stand” Canada coverage
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Oct 7, 2022
Oct 7, 2022
27 min
Is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration intentionally trying to wreck the U.S. nicotine vaping industry? It's a fair question to ask, considering every regulatory action the FDA has taken toward nicotine vaping products appears myopic and prohibitionist. And these actions are causing significant damage to the lives of people who vape and smoke.
Amanda Wheeler and Greg Conley from the American Vapor Manufacturers Association are joining us to discuss the never-ending saga of the FDA's war on vaping. We take a deep dive into FDA's dysfunctional PMTA process, the damage caused by years of misinformation, the continuing destruction of U.S. vape businesses, and the 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey on youth vaping.
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Released: October 8, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Oct 5, 2022
Oct 5, 2022
30 min
Consumers of nicotine vaping products in Canada are grappling with another rise in the cost of living, and this time, increasing costs are not a result of inflation but a new federal excise tax that went into effect on October 1st.
Poor planning and government delays affecting the availability of excise tax stamps and a lack of access to secure warehousing for the importation and stamping of vaping products mark the introduction of the tax, which could lead to massive shortages of nicotine vaping products across the country.
In this episode of RegWatch, the Canadian Vaping Association’s executive director and lead advocate Darryl Tempest provides a complete update on the implementation of the new excise tax. We discuss specific challenges facing Canadian manufacturers, distributors, and retail shop owners as they struggle to keep their businesses open, and nicotine vapes in the hands of adult consumers.
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Released: October 5, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford
Part of our “Last Stand” Canada coverage
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Sep 24, 2022
Sep 24, 2022
16 min
Canada’s new excise tax on nicotine vaping products is days away from implementation, and the ramifications could be disastrous. Excise taxes are known as “sin taxes,” which governments apply to products perceived as either morally suspect, harmful, or costly to society. The goal of a sin tax, after revenue generation, is to reduce use. But regarding vaping, reducing use could mean a return to smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch eminent tobacco control scholars Dr. Kenneth Warner and Cliff Douglas discuss recent research on e-cigarette taxes and why Canada’s new excise tax on vaping could be a public health blunder.
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Released: September 25, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford
Part of our “Last Stand” Canada coverage
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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
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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
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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