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SUSPECT SCIENCE | Vaping Suffers Most, Find Out Why | RegWatch (Live)
*Dr. Chris Lalonde, expert in research methodology, unpacks Glantz Study Scandal & Responds to Ontario Vaping Restrictions

Is the science on vaping settled? It’s an interesting question since the answer on either side of the debate is a resounding yes! For vapers, vaping saves lives and after a decade of use—there are 40-million vapers across the world—vaping has proven to be “shown safe.” Yet if you are one of the uncalculatable numbers of public health workers, academic researchers or a regional mouthpiece for a non-profit health group, then you believe vaping is deadly and a scourge of modern-day society.

In the wake of the Stanton Glantz study scandal, Dr. Chris Lalonde Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria and harm reduction advocate returns to RegWatch to examine the how’s and why’s of suspect science and its impact on the vaping debate in Canada.

Who’s anti-science?

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

This episode is supported by: STLTH & DVINE LABS

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HOUSE PASSES FLAVOR BAN | Would Trump Veto? | RegWatch (Live)
*Industry reaction with Jon Glauser, C.E.O. Demand Vape & Exec. Board Member, VTA

It was breaking news yesterday, but like all things government, it took until today to pass. What was it? Well, bill HR 2339 – The Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act. Sponsored by Democratic representatives Frank Pallone of New Jersey and Donna Shalala of Florida. The bill was introduced a year ago, and now the house of representatives HAVE PASSED the bill which is ban on flavored vaping products in all 50 states.

Joining us today to talk about the ban, the potential impact on the industry and whether or not President Trump would veto the bill is Jon Glauser, CEO of Demand Vapes, Exec Board Member of the vapor technology association and anchor supporter of RegWatch.

Live Streamed: February 28, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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Released: February 28, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

Political turmoil unleashed on the country—in so-called “solidarity” with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs opposed to the $6.6 billion Gaslink pipeline project—is neither spontaneous nor surprising. For decades U.S. non-profits have poured millions of dollars into the organizing, training and activation of Canadian eco-militants in an effort to destroy Canada’s resource sector.

In this special edition of RadicalWatch on RegWatch, learn who’s behind the protests in under 16mins.

Released: February 28, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

Dr. Brad Rodu, professor of medicine and tobacco control expert from the University of Louisville made a career battling forces responsible for promulgating suspect science in the field of tobacco harm reduction: there’s been no shortage of need for his effort.

Regulators, public health agencies and colleagues in academia relentlessly use skewed science and cooked statistics in an effort to delegitimize safer alternatives to smoking.

In this episode of RegWatch Dr. Rodu discusses events behind the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) retraction of a major study by authors Stanton Glantz and Dharma Bhatta of the University of California San Francisco that purported to show nicotine vaping led to an increase in heart attacks. The study fueled national panic over vaping and Dr. Rodu led the effort questioning the work.

Also, Dr. Rodu addresses RegWatch’s recent questioning of the estimates for annual smoking-related deaths: Why is it that smoking rates continue to fall and the forecasts of smoking deaths stay the same?

We dive into Dr. Rodu’s ground-breaking 2008 report: Calculating the ‘Big Kill’

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Live Streamed: February 26, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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Vapers, vape shop owners, and harm reduction advocates in British Columbia attended two rallies on Saturday—one in Victoria and the other in Vancouver—to call on the B.C. provincial government to protect the rights of vapers and adult smokers to choose a less harmful alternative to smoking.

RegWatch caught the Vancouver rally and grabbed great interviews with Dr. Mark Tyndall, Saadiq Daya, and more. Here’s our report hot off the presses.

Released: Saturday, February 16
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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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

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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