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*Guest: Dr. Raymond Niaura, NYU College of Global Public Health

Fear is appealing, infectious and proven to motivate people to change the way they think and act. It’s no wonder then that the public health profession employs fear as a textbook tactic in its effort to persuade the public to modify behavior. To be effective, fear appeals must operate at the population level, thus national panics over the so-called youth vaping epidemic and vaping-related lung illnesses are born.

In this edition of RegWatch we are joined by Dr. Raymond Niaura, Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Professor of Social and Behavioural Science at NYU College of Global Public Health to discuss new research he co-authored that shows fears of a youth vaping epidemic may be overblown.

What are the facts concerning youth vaping in the United States? Are flavors a prime motivator? And, did public health authorities use unfounded fear to pump hysteria over vaping-related lung illness?

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Live Streamed: January 31, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape

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It’s hard to overstate the importance of the policy shift on vaping announced this week by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. In its latest national smoking cessation guidelines, the College now supports GPs and other health professionals if they wish to recommend vaping to smokers who have tried to quit but were unsuccessful with currently available medications.

As is the case in most western countries GPs in Australia are typically the first point of contact in matters of personal health for millions of smokers. Now smokers can ask their GP about vaping and learn that vaping is an effective tool to quit smoking and that it’s 95% less harmful than smoking.

It’s an extraordinary development considering Australia remains one of the more hostile regulatory and public health environments towards vaping.

Joining us for this edition of RegWatch Live is Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, Founding Chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association and member of the Expert Advisory Group that develops the Australian national smoking cessation guidelines.

Could this policy shift be a game-changer for Australia?

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Live Streamed: January 29, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: STLTH & DVINE LABS

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Public health’s war on nicotine vaping is unrelenting and without mercy. Over the past 18-months an unprecedented amount of disinformation—regarding the health impacts of vaping—flooded the mainstream media, poisoned public perception and triggered vaping product bans across North America. Clearly, scaremongering works.

One company that’s had enough with the disinformation and is fighting back is Imperial Tobacco Canada the maker of the Vype brand vaping device, and the largest tobacco company in the country.

In this episode of RegWatch Eric Gagnon, Head of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at Imperial Tobacco Canada, discusses their just launched “Facts Not Fear” campaign, and how media and government must “not give free reign to anti-tobacco groups as they spread inaccurate and misleading information about nicotine vaping.”

What is Imperial Tobacco Canada’s reaction to vaping-related lung illness; youth vaping epidemic; provincial flavour bans, advertising restrictions, and more?

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Live Streamed: January 23, 2020
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Nick (Grimm) Green joins RegWatch to talk: the hysteria ginned up by the CDC over the mysterious lung-related illness; advocacy efforts underway to fight flavor bans, how vaping advocates put an army of vapers on Twitter; and how he and other vape focussed YouTubers are surviving the crush of increasing censorship and constant threats of revenue model destruction.

It’s a jammed packed don’t miss episode!

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Live Streamed: January 16, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape & STLTH

Joining us on RegWatch is Dr. Riccardo Polosa the world’s foremost researcher on nicotine vaping and its effects on the lung and respiratory system. Dr. Polosa is a Respiratory Physician, professor, and Director of the Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology at the University of Catania, Italy.

Dr. Polosa is an expert in lung disease and over numerous studies, his research provides clinical evidence supporting the health benefits of vaping; not only to reduce harm but in some cases, even reverse the harm caused by smoking.

What does he think about the CDC sponsored smear campaign that falsely implicated nicotine vaping as a cause of the deadly lung-illness? What does science say about the relative harms (and benefits) of vaping on the lung? And, is the damage done to vaping’s reputation permanent?

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Live Streamed: January 14, 2020

Produced by: Brent Stafford

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Back in November when the government of British Columbia announced it would enact new vaping restrictions in order to protect youth, little concern was paid to the tens of thousands of adults in the province who rely on vaping as a tool to quit smoking. In mid-December, the provincial government released details of the changes in what it calls an “Intentions Paper,” which if enacted, would destroy adult access and choice to vaping products in the province.

In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Stacey White the co-owner of Thunderbird Vapes and ardent defender of vaping rights in B.C. Hear her reaction to how the proposed regulations would classify nicotine as a “Health Hazard,” cap nicotine strength, cap e-liquid containers, cap tank size, ban zero nic e-liquid, and ban most, if not all flavours.

Add on top a 20% sales tax and intentions are clear: the BC NDP-led provincial government aims to crush vaping with a ban, in all but name.

As the deadline for public consultation fast approaches: what could be done to stave off disaster?

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Live Streamed: January 8, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: DViNE Labs

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One would hope the forces allied against vaping would observe a cessation of hostilities and allow for a peaceful holiday season, but hope is all that it would be. Over the holidays, in a series of surprise meetings and after a quick pass through the regulatory process, the Trump flavored vape ban moved from dormant to a fait accompli.

First to break the news was Paul Blair, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Americans for Tax Reform. Blair held the pulse of the process as the vape ban went from rumour to reality over the course of 10-days.

Joining RegWatch for our first episode of 2020, Blair walks viewers through the details of what happened, how it happened and what will the impact be on the industry?

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Live Streamed: January 6, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape

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2019 demonstrated in brutal fashion public health’s penchant for orchestrated lying. CDC’s obfuscation and outright deception, regarding the potential cause of the mysterious lung illness, falls nothing short of a national public health scandal, with worldwide impact.

In our final edition of RegWatch for 2019, Guy Bentley director of consumer freedom at the Reason Foundation recaps CDC’s disastrous misjudgment of the lung crisis and the media’s relentless efforts to smear vaping.

Moral panic over vaping runs against reason, find out why!

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Released: December 30, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape

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It should come as no surprise that Massachusetts, the state which nurtured the most notorious cases of mass hysteria in American history, the Salem Witch Trials, is also the same state currently perfecting the witch hunt against vaping. On Wednesday the Massachusetts Public Health Council made permanent its ban on the sale of flavored vaping products and mandated signs warning consumers of “severe lung disease” to be posted at retail locations where unflavored vaping products might still be sold.

Massachusetts is not alone as public health bureaucrats in the state of New York voted this week to extend its ban on flavored e-cigarettes, even though the ban is currently held up in court.

What’s driving the vape ban mayhem? And how are consumers being affected?

Find out in this episode of RegWatch with Alex Clark CEO of CASAA, the national consumer advocacy organization for smoke-free alternatives.

Streamed: December 12, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: FlavourArt & Demand Vape

Every attempt to isolate a cause to explain the war on vaping faces its difficulties, as no cause is entirely defective in explanation, yet neither is any satisfyingly sufficient to explain the level of hysteria engulfing the nation. Clues are best found by examining similar phenomenon and terrifyingly, there’s no better example than the decades-long battle in the “War on Drugs.”

In this edition of RegWatch we’re joined by Ethan Nadelmann, founder and former director of the Drug Policy Alliance and member of the advisory board of the Open Society Foundation’s Global Drug Policy Project.

For decades Nadelmann led the fight to end the “War on Drugs,” so he knows all too well the dehumanizing, slanderous, coercive tactics used by moral crusaders. Today he sees those same tactics deployed against vaping; raising his ire and compelling him to join the fight.

What are the similarities between the “War on Drugs” and the “War on Vaping?” And, could the vaping battle be lost?

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Streamed: December 10, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: Demand Vape

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