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
Dec 30, 2019
Dec 30, 2019
55 min
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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Dec 12, 2019
Dec 12, 2019
1 hr 17 min
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
Dec 10, 2019
Dec 10, 2019
1 hr 13 min
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?
Find out, on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.
Streamed: December 10, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by: Demand Vape
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Dec 9, 2019
Dec 9, 2019
1 hr 10 min
The deep, dark, ugly truth is often too much to bear. Do you dare to hear the truth?
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Live Streamed: December 9, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford
Dec 6, 2019
Dec 6, 2019
1 hr 42 min
At times it seems like it will never end, the stream of shameful, slanderous, pseudo-scientific research belched from the halls of academia and the darkened corridors of public health. With each new study the same old rehash of claims chips away at the truth, that vaping is a safer alternative to smoking.
Thankfully a small cadre of scientists have dedicated careers to debunking bogus studies and one of the most prolific and well-known of these scientists is Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos, cardiologist and research fellow from the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Department of Pharmacology, University of Patras, Greece.
In this special edition of RegWatch hear Dr. Farsalinos confront the most pernicious of the recent retreads of suspicious studies and learn whether he thinks truth in science still has a chance to win-out.
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Streamed: December 6, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by: FlavourArt & STLTH
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Dec 5, 2019
Dec 5, 2019
2 min
We’re beyond the cliché of a post-truth world. Tobacco control policy expert David Sweanor says journos @KCroweCBC @carlyweeks and rest of MSM traded ethics for activism and joined the moralist battle against #vaping @CBCNews @globeandmail @tDocsVsTobacco @GovCanHealth #cdnpoli
Watch the full episode "Got it Wrong"
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Streamed: December 5, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Dec 5, 2019
Dec 5, 2019
5 min
The notoriously secretive political advocacy group Physicians for A Smoke-Free Canada, are major players in the War on Vaping in Canada. Who are they? What motivates their activism? And is Health Canada one of PSC financial backers?
Watch the full episode "Got it Wrong"
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Streamed: December 5, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Dec 5, 2019
Dec 5, 2019
16 min
Moralists, prohibitionists and public health make for an unhealthy mix, for thousands of Canadians who teeter on the losing end of mass anti-vaping hysteria
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Streamed: December 5, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Dec 3, 2019
Dec 3, 2019
1 hr 37 min
By now it should be clear to all observers that politicians, public health officials, non-profit health groups and the national media are joined in common cause to force Health Canada into abject retreat on vaping.
The endgame is a complete policy reversal on the regulations allowing adult access and choice to vaping products in Canada.
But more than just a U-turn, opponents appear to be demanding from Health Canada an admission that the agency, concerning the science on vaping, ‘got it wrong’ and miscalculated the health risks, impact of flavors on youth use, and the hazards of nicotine.
The pressure campaign is in full swing behind the scenes in Ottawa and supported by legislatures and public health groups from across the country. It’s out in full public view, propagated by activists in the media, such as Kelly Crowe from the CBC and Carly Weeks at the Globe and Mail; to name just a few.
In this edition of RegWatch we are joined by David Sweanor, Ottawa lawyer, renowned tobacco-control policy expert and harm reduction advocate. We’ll dive into the issues and ask: What and who is driving this train towards total abstinence and what if anything could be done to stop it?
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Streamed: December 3, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by: STLTH
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Nov 26, 2019
Nov 26, 2019
1 hr 3 min
*Guest: Schell Hammel, Candidate for U.S. Congress
It’s the central question driving the entire debate over vaping: Keep flavors or lose flavors? No other issue commands the same urgency, not even nicotine. Consider that anti-vaping opponents believe flavors are the primary problem and allege flavors alone are responsible for attracting youth to vaping in the first place. Which then allows nicotine to its dirty business of addicting another generation of youth.
For vaping proponents, the answer to the question of flavors is far from clear. Debate over the issue has left many relationships twisted and tortured as vapers square off, choosing what terrible price vaping should pay, in order to relieve the incessant pressure destroying the industry.
Of course, flavors dominated the discussion at the White House listening session on Friday, which brought vaping industry leaders and anti-vaping opponents face-to-face with President Trump. But were any concrete plans offered to help the industry get out of this mess?
In tonight’s episode of RegWatch we are joined by Schell Hammel, national vaping advocate and candidate for U.S. Congress for the 22nd district in the state of Texas.
Is the vaping industry being forced into a devil’s bargain?
Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.
Streamed: November 26, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by: Demand Vape