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***Special Guest: Dimitris Agrafiotis @VapinGreek***

It’s been four weeks since news of vaping-related illnesses first made international headlines and during this short time the prospects for the future of nicotine vaping, as a tool for harm reduction, have been shattered. As a mountain of misinformation promulgated by public health agencies and anti-vaping pressure groups stoked a feverish mainstream media, all too happy to vilify vaping.

Joining RegWatch today for this “end of week round-up” is Dimitris Agrafiotis a.k.a. the VapinGreek. He’s a globally known vaping advocate and executive director of the Tennessee Smoke Free Association.

If you’re looking for frank talk and piercing analysis, you’ve got it!

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: September 20, 2019

Without question, the system is failing. The very people and institutions we rely upon to provide accurate information about health-related matters are captured by rhetoric and slavishly denying science. If the system is failing, is it time for the people to crash it?

Today RegWatch is doing a series of crash tests on our pesky live stream gear. While doing so we provide a blow-by-blow of Canada’s first case of pulmonary lung-illness. Joining us is a national vaping advocate, Thomas Kirsop.

In this totally unscripted episode of RegWatch Live…if we do this right…WE WILL CRASH the live stream!! But don’t worry we will also fix it.

Produced by: Brent Stafford

Released: September 18, 2019

Not too long ago the question on everyone’s mind was: Could Trump save vaping? Today the question is: How to save vaping from Trump? In this upcoming episode of RegWatch Live Schell Hammel, national vaping advocate and Texas retail chain owner, tackles the Trump administration’s misguided plan to ban flavored vaping products. While providing frank Texas advice to the President, and to those in vaping, who hope to survive the epic propaganda nightmare that has engulfed the U.S. vaping industry.

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Streamed: September 16, 2019
Produced by: Brent Stafford

In an extraordinarily prescient interview with RegWatch mid-summer Martin Dockrell, the head of tobacco issues at Public Health England feared if vaping products are pulled off the U.S. market “a whole bunch of smokers who might otherwise have quit never will. And they'll die and that will be a tragedy.”

In this full-length edition of our exclusive interview, hear Dockrell outline his concerns over the future of vaping and why the UK approach to the war on smoking has been an enormous success.

Does vaping save lives? Find out!

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: September 14, 2019

President Trump said the U.S. plans to pull most vaping products from the market, citing growing concerns about health hazards and rising use by teenagers of the trendy alternative to traditional cigarettes.

Michelle Minton, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute joins RegWatch to discuss Trump’s War on Vaping and the progressive underpinnings of the battle to ban the vape.

Produced by Brent Stafford
Released September 11, 2019

*** with Dr. Michael Siegel *** The past few weeks have been horrific for the approximately 400 victims (and families) poisoned by illicit THC-vaping products—some fatally. It’s a real tragedy and certainly a public health emergency. But these are not the only victims; tens of millions of people who rely on traditional nicotine-vaping products as a lifeline to quit smoking (or to stay quit) now find access to these products threatened, or in the case of the state of Michigan, revoked, restricted, denied.

In this edition of RegWatch Dr. Siegel evaluates FDA, CDC and non-profit health groups’ lack of clarity regarding the nature of the emergency; an emergency which should have first, and only, been described as a product tampering or tainted product crisis. Instead, health officials warned the public to stop using e-cigarettes; maligning traditional nicotine-vaping and obscuring the truth.

What caused these illnesses? And, why does it appear the CDC is doing everything in its power to protect the illicit THC-vape trade while deflecting blame onto the legal, retail vaping industry?

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***FULL INTERVIEW***

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: September 10, 2019

Weeks prior to the first cases of vaping-related lung illness hitting the news, RegWatch conducted an exclusive interview with Martin Dockrell the Tobacco Programme Lead at Public Health England.

PHE is the UK’s top health protection agency and employs 5,000 staff who are mostly scientists, researchers, and public health professionals. Public Health England is a beacon of sound science and for the past 5-years has a been a strong advocate for the use of e-cigarettes as a tool to stop smoking.

While the recent deaths and illnesses associated with vaping are tragic, the confounding of traditional nicotine-vaping with illicit black-market THC-vaping could have dire consequences.

In this snippet of our exclusive interview with Public Health England, hear Dockrell discuss how vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking and learn the science behind this determination.

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: September 7, 2019

It’s a logical conclusion, following a year of incessant misinformation and media hype over the so-called epidemic of teen vaping and the recent crisis over vaping-related lung disease—it seems the epidemic rhetoric has finally metastasized into the desired result: an out-right-ban on vaping products.

On Wednesday Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive order banning the sale of flavored e-cigarettes across Michigan, in an effort to discourage teens and other young people from vaping. The governor says it’s a public health emergency and she has the unilateral power to ban vaping in her state.

Is this order legal? What will be the impact? And, could Michigan set a dangerous precedent for other states to follow?

Gregory Conley, President of the American Vaping Association joins RegWatch to discuss these questions and hear Gov. Whitmer explain the rationale behind her decision.

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: September 5, 2019

Progressives’ war on vaping escalated to a new and dangerous phase in the past few weeks, going well beyond mere misinformation and hysterical rhetoric. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, nearly 100 people, mostly teens, have been hospitalized with severe lung damaged; apparently the result of vaping.

The allegations have made national news, yet medical officials say they do not know what products, brands or substances were being used. So how then is the CDC able to blame vaping?

In this headline edition of RegWatch we talk with Dr. Riccardo Polosa, Director of the Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology at University of Catania, Italy. Dr. Polosa is the world’s foremost researcher studying the effects of vaping on the respiratory system, and in this episode learn why he thinks these allegations of vaping-related lung damage are beyond credible.

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: August 21, 2019

If your house is on fire, is it worth it to worry, about the fire-resistance rating of your living room sofa set? It might be, depending on which room the fire is burning and whether your escape route runs past the living room couch. This type of calculation now besets both the U.S. and Canadian vaping industries.

In this episode of RegWatch hear how an alliance of vaping associations from north and south of the border are working to establish a unified set of standards for Good Manufacturing Practices, ready-made, for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada to embrace.

Could manufacturing standards that are fit for purpose, help douse the cross-border fire which currently engulfs vaping?

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: August 17, 2019