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 7, 2021
May 7, 2021
56 min
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
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Apr 24, 2021
Apr 24, 2021
44 min
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
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Apr 15, 2021
Apr 15, 2021
33 min
At times it can be quite maddening trying to sort out the reasoning behind public health’s opposition to tobacco harm reduction. Now it’s true not everyone within public health opposes THR products, such as vaping and smokeless tobacco, but for those who do, they seem to hold all the power.
Joining us for the first time on RegWatch is Dr. Lynn T. Kozlowski, Prof of Community Health and Health Behavior at the University at Buffalo, School of Public Health and Health Professions. Kozlowski is an internationally recognized expert on tobacco use, e-cigarettes, and nicotine policy, and he’s the former head of Behavioral Research on Tobacco at the Addiction Research Foundation, Ontario.
What’s the primary moral reaction towards vaping by harm reductionists within public health?
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Released: April 15, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
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Apr 9, 2021
Apr 9, 2021
29 min
It’s astonishing to witness how swift the Canadian vaping industry’s fortunes have changed following the legalization and regulation of vapour products in 2018. After experiencing explosive growth and successfully navigating the complexities of a newly enacted regulatory regime, the Canadian vaping industry now faces destruction.
Turmoil over the so-called youth vaping “epidemic” and reputational damage done by a smear campaign that falsely implicated nicotine vaping as having caused an “outbreak” of a mysterious lung illness is responsible for sowing doubt and mistrust with the regulator and the public.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Saadiq Daya, the CEO of Canadian e-liquid manufacturer VanGo Vapes. Hear his assessment of Health Canada’s regulatory management and what he fears most about the pending restriction on nicotine levels and potential national flavour ban.
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Released: April 10, 2021
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Apr 3, 2021
Apr 3, 2021
49 min
“Show yourself and your conflicts” is the call from Dr. Roberto Sussman, an advocate for consumers of non-combustible nicotine products in Mexico and Latin America, to the billionaire philanthropist, and anti-vaping crusader, Michael Bloomberg.
To an extraordinary extent, Bloomberg influences public health policymaking within numerous countries, at multiple levels of government, via a complex network of non-profit organizations in which he funds.
Dr. Sussman says it’s time to unmask the motivations behind Bloomberg’s abstinence-only, prohibitionist stance on low-risk nicotine products and expose his paternalistic, anti-democratic treatment of low and middle-income countries.
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Released: April 3, 2021
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Mar 31, 2021
Mar 31, 2021
38 min
Billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg is well-known in America for incessant moralizing over the products he believes government should ban people from consuming, in the name of good public health. But few know the magnitude of Bloomberg’s impact in developing countries around the world.
Over the past decade, Bloomberg-funded organizations have made concerted efforts to eradicate low-risk nicotine products, such as vaping, in low and middle-income countries. They push narrow public health policies that disenfranchise and marginalize local populations.
In part-2 of this RegWatch special series we are joined by Michelle Minton, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Hear why she thinks Bloomberg’s one size fits all policy is “insidious” and a throwback to the “colonialist origins of public health.”
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Released: March 31, 2021
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Mar 28, 2021
Mar 28, 2021
31 min
In a world filled with grand conspiracy theories, it can be difficult to nail down a proper villain. After all, there’s no shortage of bad actors. But when it comes to the war on vaping there’s really only one, the billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
In this special series of RegWatch, we explore how Bloomberg uses his power and money to backstop a tangled web of philanthropic organizations who cajole, strong-arm or buy-off governments of low and middle-income countries so that they would implement harsh restrictions, taxes, and even bans on low-risk nicotine products, such as vaping.
Is Bloomberg doing more harm than good?
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Released: March 28, 2021
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Mar 26, 2021
Mar 26, 2021
15 min
*Guest: Michelle Minton, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute - The law banning the shipment of nicotine vaping products via the U.S. postal service is set to go into effect at the end of next month, leaving many consumers with limited options to secure the products they rely on to quit smoking.
Joining us today on RegWatch to talk about the impact and politics behind the U.S. vape mail ban, and the overall outlook for vaping, in general, is Michelle Minton, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Released: March 26, 2021
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Mar 20, 2021
Mar 20, 2021
21 min
The U.S. vaping industry faces many unforeseen challenges, but none is more threatening than the challenge posed by underage vaping.
Preventing youth use of vaping products is the number one goal of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its onerous Premarket Tobacco Application Process (PMTA.) And while many vaping companies struggle to meet the high bar set by FDA to remain in business, the biggest hurdle could come only after a Marketing Order is approved: Postmarket Reporting.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Taylor Cage, Board Secretary and Communications Chair of SFATA, the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association. Hear Cage discuss SFATA’s new Responsible Industry Network (R.I.N.) program which is a closed-loop system designed to ease the burden of Postmarket Reporting and to help keep vaping products out of the hands of youth.
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Released: March 20, 2021
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Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021
31 min
It’s a legitimate concern for the Canadian vaping industry, how to redesign refillable vaping devices and vaping parts to meet Health Canada regulations for child-resistant containers, during the middle of a pandemic, and under unbelievably tight timelines.
The new requirements could have been an industry killer, but thanks to global leaders like Innokin Technology Canadian vapers are able to vape on.
Joining us today on RegWatch are legendary vape advocates Dimitris Agrafiotis and Phil Busardo, brand ambassadors and designers on behalf of Innokin. Hear about the company’s new CRC-compliant products and get an update on the challenges facing the Canadian and U.S. vaping industries.
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Live Streamed: March 11, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by INNOKIN
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