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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May 23, 2022
May 23, 2022
38 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
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May 14, 2022
May 14, 2022
30 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
Part of our “Last Stand” Canada coverage
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May 2, 2022
May 2, 2022
3 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Apr 22, 2022
Apr 22, 2022
23 min
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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Apr 19, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
50 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
Part of our “Last Stand” coverage
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Apr 8, 2022
Apr 8, 2022
31 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Apr 7, 2022
Apr 7, 2022
16 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
Part of our “Last Stand” coverage
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Mar 26, 2022
Mar 26, 2022
34 min
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.
Don’t miss this episode!
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Released: March 26, 2022
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Mar 18, 2022
Mar 18, 2022
30 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Mar 10, 2022
Mar 10, 2022
18 min
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
Part of our “Last Stand” Canada coverage
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