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*Special Guest: Dan Vergano, Science Reporter, BuzzFeed News

It’s an old debate and that’s why it seems so vicious. This is how BuzzFeed News science reporter Dan Vergano describes the battle taking place over the Trump administration’s proposed ban on flavored nicotine vaping products. In this special edition of RegWatch hear Vergano’s assessment of the politics, science, media coverage and public health response to the lung crisis, that’s impacting the future of vaping in the United States.

Is there going to be a Trump vaping ban?

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Streamed: Thursday, November 7, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford

At any moment the Trump administration is expected to announce new policy intended to “clear the market” of flavored nicotine vaping products, in an effort to stem the so-called “epidemic” in youth vaping.

Many observers say the Trump ban could have a devastating impact on adult access and choice of flavored vaping products, products which they insist have proven essential in helping millions of smokers to quit.

What are the twenty things you should know about the U.S. flavor ban? Clive Bates, international tobacco control expert is here with the answers.

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Streamed: November 6, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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**Guests: Tristan Thompson (UVA, Vaping Legion) & Matt Culley (Suck My Mod)

Thousands of people are set to descend on Washington D.C. this Saturday, November 9, for what is expected to be an epic rally in defense of adult access and choice to vaping products. Only the Trump administration knows whether the rally will come just mere moments after the FDA drops the hammer and bans flavors; leaving thousands of advocates protesting a fait accompli.

In this episode of RegWatch hear from rally organizers: Tristan Thompson head of the Vaping Legion and Board President of the United Vapers Alliance; Matt Culley activist and host of Suck My Mod on YouTube.

If you’re going to the rally learn more about what to expect; if you can’t make it, learn how your voice can be heard. And, join the discussion about the devastating impact of the looming Trump ban on vaping.

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Streamed: November 5, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

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A wicked take on tobacco-control-led hysteria. A tale only for Halloween.

Streamed: October 31, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

**Special Guest: Jim McDonald, News Editor at Vaping360.com

Public health officials, anti-vaping pressure groups, and tobacco-control refuse to recognize they have pushed past the limits of sanity. In a deranged effort to prevent youth vaping, anti-vaping crusaders are advocating for policies that they know would destroy adult access to vaping products and force millions of vapers back to smoking.

Nobody knows more about this deranged anti-vaping syndrome than intrepid reporter Jim McDonald. Writing for Vaping360.com, McDonald has filed over 400 stories from the frontline of the ‘Battle to Ban the Vape.’

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Streamed: October 29, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: FlavourArt

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On this special edition of RegWatch Live the Canadian Vaping Association’s executive director and lead advocate Darryl Tempest and B.C.-based lobbyist Michael Geoghegan talk through the legislative and regulatory impact of the hysteria over vaping that has gripped the nation. From the proposed flavour ban in the province of British Columbia to Health Canada's reaction to the so-called vaping-related lung illnesses, and more.

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Streamed: October 23, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: STLTH and Premium Labs

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For registered nurse Kellie Ann Forbes it began as a personal mission to better understand the devastating health impacts of smoking. Soon it became a professional crusade to not only better inform patients about the risks of smoking, but to the wide variety of options to quit—including vaping.

This mission brought her at loggerheads with medical colleagues and the mainstream medical profession, ensconced with anti-vaping dogma and misinformation. Thus, the Vaping Advocacy Education Project was born.

VAEP is one of the most active and trusted educational advocacy groups in vaping. In this episode of RegWatch learn more about VAEP’s story, mission and code ethics, and hear what Kellie Ann has to say about the lung-illness hysteria, vaping bans, and the misinformation in the media.

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Streamed: October 22, 2019
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As hysteria over the so-called “vaping-related lung illness” proceeds unabated, the attack on science that supports vaping as a less harmful alternative to smoking is renewed in earnest. Key findings of harm reduction science: vaping is 95% safer than smoking; nicotine is not carcinogenetic; vaping is not a gateway to teen smoking; and much more is systematically being undermined by a deliberate campaign to destroy vaping.

In this edition of RegWatch hear world-leading scientist Dr. Lion Shahab from the Institute of Epidemiology & Health, University College London address the what he calls the “misleading” hysteria over vaping-related lung disease and how a decade of use, by over 40 million vapers worldwide, shows vaping to be safe.

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Released: October 21, 2019
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Many observers liken it to the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The bomb dropped in mid-August and over the past two-months the fallout, resulting from the so-called vaping-related lung illness, poisoned public perception of vaping and fueled a devastating chain reaction of e-cigarette flavor bans across the country.

Is there a possibility for the U.S. Vaping industry to recover? Today on RegWatch we hope to find out as our guest Chris Howard is a true industry insider. Howard is General Counsel & CCO at E-Alternative Solutions, he’s former General Counsel & CCO of Fontem Ventures (blu eCigs) and he holds a leadership role with the county’s largest advocacy organization, the Vapor Technology Association, where he’s Treasurer and Board Member.

If there are answers to be found, we have a good shot of finding them.

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Streamed: Oct 16, 2019.
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*Special Guest: Amelia Howard, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, University of Waterloo, Vaping Advocate

It could be the largest public health scandal in American history. In a little over two months a cluster of mysterious pulmonary illnesses metastasized into a national health emergency with over 1,300 fallen sick, and as of October 10th, twenty-nine deaths. Americans ranging in age from 17 to 75 years continue to die and the agency responsible for protecting the public from spreading illness—the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—continues to suppress the nearly incontrovertible evidence regarding the cause of this horrific outbreak.

Did CDC’s refusal (that is ongoing) to explicitly identify and warn the public about the extreme risks of using illicit black-market THC products cause needless illness and death? And as CDC sponsored hysteria, which falsely conflates nicotine vaping as the cause, drives millions of vapers back to smoking: Will the federal agency have blood on its hands, decades from now, when millions more die from cancer and smoking-related disease?

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Streamed: Oct 11, 2019.
Produced by: Brent Stafford