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
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DIGITAL SMOKE SUPPLIES and NORTH ISLAND VAPORS
Part of our “Last Stand” coverage
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Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is part of our “Last Stand” coverage
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Thursday Jun 10, 2021
Thursday Jun 10, 2021
Guest: Mike Meatherel, President & Founder, Dvine Laboratories
Released: June 11, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford & Maria Papaioannoy-Duic
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Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
*Guests: David Sweanor & Chris Lalonde
Released: June 8, 2021
Original Stream: May 30, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford & Maria Papaioannoy-Duic
Segment from World Vape Day Coverage
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Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
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
Produced by Brent Stafford & Maria Papaioannoy-Duic
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Sunday May 23, 2021
Sunday May 23, 2021
*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
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Thursday May 20, 2021
Thursday May 20, 2021
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by STINKY CANUCK - SWITCH 2 VAPES
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Friday May 07, 2021
Friday May 07, 2021
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Saturday Apr 24, 2021
Saturday Apr 24, 2021
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
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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