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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Sep 10, 2021
Sep 10, 2021
48 min
Join RegWatch for a special live episode to unpack the reckless behaviour of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in its decision to delay authorizations of nicotine vaping products for controversial companies such as Juul. While issuing Marketing Denial Orders for millions of products manufactured and sold by thousands of small businesses operating in the U.S. market.
*Guests: Amanda Wheeler, Exec. Dir., Arizona Smoke Free Business Alliance & President, Rocky Mountain Smoke Free Alliance / Dimitris Agrafiotis, Exec. Dir. Tennessee Smoke Free Association / Phil Busardo, Vape Evangelist
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Streamed Live: September 10, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Sep 2, 2021
Sep 2, 2021
32 min
It is a remarkable development in the contentious debate over nicotine vaping. A group of influential tobacco control experts authored a paper, published in The American Journal of Public Health, calling on the broader health community, policymakers, and the media to re-evaluate and reform their positions on vaping in favor of vaping as a tool for harm reduction
Joining us today on RegWatch is Dr. Robin J Mermelstein, Distinguished Prof. of Psychology and IHRP Director at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Chair of FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee. Dr. Mermelstein is one of 15 past presidents of the prestigious Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco that coauthored the paper.
Why does this renowned group of anti-tobacco scientists advocate for greater adult access to nicotine vaping products? Find out.
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Released: Sept 2, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Aug 28, 2021
Aug 28, 2021
32 min
Since the beginning of this year, RegWatch has reported on the situation concerning the United States Postal Service and a new law that bans the shipment of all nicotine vaping products via U.S. mail.
The “Vape Mail” ban could have a devastating impact on the nicotine vaping industry in the United States. But it also threatens another industry, one more popular and on the rise: the cannabis industry. It appears lawmakers intend to sweep cannabis vaping products into the new regulation.
In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by Tami Wahl, Washington lobbyist for the cannabis industry. She’s leading an effort to fight the Vape Mail ban that includes cannabis vaping and nicotine vaping industries. What brought these unlikely partners together in joint action? Find out!
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Released: August 28, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Aug 24, 2021
Aug 24, 2021
9 min
When the government of Canada first made nicotine vaping products legal, many top tobacco researchers from around the world lauded the move. But what about today: now that a pending ban on flavours threatens tobacco harm reduction in the country?
*Guest: Dr. Raymond Niaura, Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, NYU School of Global Public Health
Released: August 24, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Aug 13, 2021
Aug 13, 2021
41 min
Where we have seen severe restrictions and flavor bans on nicotine vaping products, “the smoking rate is going back up,” says Dr. Raymond Niaura, NYU epidemiologist and long-time tobacco researcher. The return of smoking is a disturbing trend that seems to be an accepted consequence of tobacco control’s war on vaping.
What’s driving public health decision-making? Find out.
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Released: August 13, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
*Guest: Dr. Raymond Niaura, Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, NYU School of Global Public Health
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Jul 28, 2021
Jul 28, 2021
1 hr 33 min
*In partnership with Rights4Vapers | It’s not an exaggeration to say Health Canada‘s proposed ban on flavours in nicotine vaping products will push hundreds of thousands of Canadians back to smoking because Health Canada freely admits this fact in the Regulatory Analysis Impact Statement for the proposed new regulations. But if a flavour ban in Canada leads to more people smoking, it also means more suffering, disease, and death. Does Health Canada admit this troubling fact? Does the health regulator even care?
In this jam-packed special edition of RegWatch, we’ll dig into these questions. Joining us as co-host is national vaping activist Maria Papaioannoy-Duic from Rights4Vapers and guests include Shai Bekman, president of DashVapes Inc.; Luke Marshall, owner of County Vape; and David Levesque, founding partner of Digital Smoke supplies.
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Live Streamed: July 27, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford and Maria Papaioannoy-Duic
This episode is supported by SIR VAPE-A-LOT - LA VAPOTE - CANADA E-CLOUDS
Part of our “Last Stand” coverage
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Jul 15, 2021
Jul 15, 2021
47 min
As far as inflection points go, the U.S. vaping industry has met its share of turmoil over the past few years. Yet, the industry still manages to hold on. But what’s next for vaping as we approach the court-mandated September 2021 deadline for FDA to review premarket tobacco product applications?
Joining us today is regulatory and public policy lawyer Azim Chowdhury from the firm Keller & Heckman. For over a decade, Chowdhury’s been one of the most prominent legal advocates for the U.S. vaping industry.
In this episode of RegWatch, we take a deep dive into the most pressing issues facing the industry. Will FDA provide market authorization to more than just a handful of big vape companies? What’s the status on flavors, taxes, and the vape mail ban? Will the U.S. vaping industry survive?
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Released: July 15, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Jul 12, 2021
Jul 12, 2021
23 min
It’s inexplicable. The Canadian government appears hellbent on destroying the health and wellbeing of over one million citizens in a misguided, ill-conceived effort to eradicate nicotine use in the country.
Now the feds are not attempting to eradicate smoking, the habit that kills tens of tens of thousands of Canadians each year. No, it’s nicotine vaping products that the government is poised to ban, which are a vastly safer source of nicotine, and the very same products the Liberal-led Canadian government legalized only three years ago.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Janine Timmons, a concerned Canadian user of nicotine vaping products and long-time supporter of the federal Liberals. Timmons is shaken by Health Canada’s “absolutely reckless” move to ban flavors, which the regulator acknowledges will push some people back to smoking.
What’s going on here? Find out only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com
Released: July 12, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by SELECT VAPES - LUCKY 8 VAPES - MISTER VAPOR
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Jul 8, 2021
Jul 8, 2021
50 min
The global war against safer nicotine vaping products continues unabated with new flavor bans, nicotine restrictions, and vaping taxes. Tobacco control says these measures are intended to eradicate the youth vaping epidemic, but harm reduction activists fear the result will be to drive millions of people back to smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Charles A. Gardener, executive director of INNCO, the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organizations for a deep dive into the tactics used by tobacco control to destroy nicotine vaping as a viable alternative to smoking.
Hear analysis on flavor bans and why teen vaping rates have plummeted by 29% and learn why he thinks anti-vaping activists could be in for a shock when the U.S. FDA announces market authorizations under its PMTA process.
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Released: July 8, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Jul 5, 2021
Jul 5, 2021
5 min
Should Canadian vapers take the blame for Health Canada’s war on vaping? Or is the regulator captured by non-profit health groups operating with political purpose?
*Guest: Janine Timmons, former smoker, vaping products consumer
Released: July 6, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DRAGON VAPE - VAPOUR CHOICE - P SQUARED VAPES
Part of our “Last Stand” coverage
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