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If left unchecked, youth vaping poses an “existential threat” to the vaping industry in Canada. This is the warning James Van Loon, Director General of the Tobacco Control Directorate at Health Canada, gave to industry stakeholders when it became clear to the regulator that the crisis of youth vaping—unfolding in the United States—had spread to Canada. The concern is real and substantial.

Shot on location at Health Canada’s national headquarters, learn what the Director General thinks about the critical issues: youth vaping data; nicotine addiction; the media bias against vaping; relative risk statements; advertising & promotion; adult access; and much more.

What may be asked of the industry to stem the tide of youth vaping?

Find out, in Part-1 of this 2-part exclusive interview.

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: April 16, 2019

Public health has a penchant for demonizing the use of particular products that it considers to be unhealthy. And while the practice is recognized as an effective method to modify behavior, there are unintended consequences.

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: April 6, 2019

Stoked by public health special interest groups a litany of frightening headlines has splashed across Canadian newspapers and TV news screens: Vaping Addicts Youth to Nicotine; Youth Vaping Leads to Youth Smoking; Vaping Is an Urgent Threat to Public Health.

For many Canadians, the news is shocking and worrisome, yet also confusing. Considering the fact that less than one-year-ago the Federal Liberal government made vaping products with nicotine legal in Canada—with the full acknowledgment that vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking.

In this RegWatch feature interview, hear what Dr. Mark Tyndall, Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health and former Executive Director of the BC Centre for Disease Control thinks about the pressure campaign to rollback vaping regulations and why he says it's based on a contrived “moral panic.”

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: April 6, 2019

With the ink barely dry on legislation legalizing vaping products in Canada, the industry finds itself facing an existential threat: an epidemic of youth vaping.

In response to the alarm over youth use, tobacco-control activists are lobbying Health Canada to crack down on the advertising and promotion of vaping products, such as JUUL and Vype, while also pressing to limit adult access and choice in order to combat the perceived crisis.

In this edition of RegWatch hear what the CEO of a top Canadian e-juice company thinks of the turmoil rocking the industry—Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: March 30, 2019

Join us this Sunday, March 24th for an in-depth discussion of the widening war against vaping in Canada.
Guest: Thomas Kirsop

Some of the stories to be discussed:
They don’t have to die. But I can’t tell you that | Letter
Vaping an urgent threat to public health: experts (CityNews)
Vaping is an urgent threat to public health (opinion)
Ottawa needs to protect our kids from nicotine addiction
Smoke for thought

Kirsop is a 47 year old father of four who smoked his first cigarette at the age of 9, and his last at the age of 43. Currently Thomas, along with his wife are he sole shareholders in an incorporated small business venture operating two shops in central Alberta offering alternatives to adult smokers. Thomas is an advocate for vaping as a harm reduction tool, has served on the board of the Electronic Cigarette Trade Association (ECTA) of Canada, and continues to support that organization with his research and writing skills.

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Streamed Live: March 24, 2019

Considering the ceaseless media coverage and the constant threat of retribution by regulators and anti-vaping non-profit health groups, one would think there exists a large body of scientific evidence to back up the claim that youth vaping has become a public health crisis; but apparently, there is not. Or, if the evidence exists, it’s not been made available to the public, the industry or to other researchers who specialize in tobacco harm reduction. Why not?

Find out in this extended RegWatch interview with Dr. Brad Rodu, Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville, Kentucky and 25-year veteran tobacco harm reduction.

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: March 21, 2019

There are plenty of theories about why so many people seem to hold maniacal dispositions against vaping. Are they in bed with big tobacco? Or maybe they work for big pharma? Some may simply have an authoritarian personality and like telling people how to live their lives. It could be all of these reasons and more: Including prejudice.

Find out how in our inaugural edition or “Reg Rant” by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford

Released: March 16, 2019

For many within the tobacco control movement the debate over vaping—considering the decades spent fighting big tobacco—is filled with contradiction. On one hand, you have the cigarette which is proven to be deadly and on the other, you have vaping, which despite relentless demonization is considered by even the most ardent critic, to be a much safer alternative to smoking. As the saying goes within vaping advocacy: Smoking kills and vaping saves lives.

But this axiom presents a difficult challenge as the minute big tobacco got involved in the vaping industry the antennae of long-time tobacco control advocates went ballistic: the tobacco industry’s business is to hook people on a lifelong addiction to nicotine, and for many within tobacco control, the business of vaping appears to be no different.

In this special extended edition of RegWatch hear from top tobacco control advocate Michael Perley as we discuss the reported epidemic of youth vaping; the impact of nicotine use on the adolescent brain; the battle to ban retail sales to minors; and the role specialty vape shops could play in a responsible future.

Surprising insights you don’t want to miss!

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: March 13, 2019

Vaping is 95-percent safer than smoking: This fact, courtesy of Public Health England is the go-to rejoinder for every vaping advocate seeking to counter misinformation about the health effects of vaping. But is vaping really this safe?

In this RegWatch special series snippet hear from Michael Perley, Director at Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco and learn what he thinks about 95-percent safer?

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Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: March 9, 2019

Since September 15th of last year, a single word haunts the vaping industry: epidemic. The United States Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb used the term to describe an alarming increase in youth vaping, due in no small part to the massive popularity of Juul.

RegWatch is launching a special series of coverage examining the issues facing the Canadian vaping industry as it braces for regulatory action in the wake of the youth vaping epidemic spreading from the U.S. to Canada. But is it an epidemic?

In this special series snippet hear what one of the nation’s top tobacco-control advocates thinks—only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released: March 9, 2019