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It’s inexplicable. The Canadian government appears hellbent on destroying the health and wellbeing of over one million citizens in a misguided, ill-conceived effort to eradicate nicotine use in the country. Now the feds are not attempting to eradicate smoking, the habit that kills tens of tens of thousands of Canadians each year. No, it’s nicotine vaping products that the government is poised to b...

The global war against safer nicotine vaping products continues unabated with new flavor bans, nicotine restrictions, and vaping taxes. Tobacco control says these measures are intended to eradicate the youth vaping epidemic, but harm reduction activists fear the result will be to drive millions of people back to smoking.  In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Charles A. Gardener, executive...

Should Canadian vapers take the blame for Health Canada’s war on vaping? Or is the regulator captured by non-profit health groups operating with political purpose? *Guest: Janine Timmons, former smoker, vaping products consumer Released: July 6, 2021 Produced by  Brent Stafford This episode is supported by DRAGON VAPE - VAPOUR CHOICE - P SQUARED VAPES Part of our “Last Stand” coverage https://yout...

Is Health Canada paying attention to the unintended consequences of its war on vaping? *Guest: Janine Timmons, former smoker, vaping products consumer Released: July 5, 2021 Produced by  Brent Stafford This episode is supported by DRAGON VAPE - VAPOUR CHOICE - P SQUARED VAPES Part of our “Last Stand” coverage https://youtu.be/qStMHrPKTWE Make RegWatch happen, go to https://support.regulatorwatch.c...

Just three years after the legalization of nicotine vaping products in Canada a slate of new regulations, which includes a national flavour ban, nicotine cap, and federal excise tax, promises to punish the industry and destroy any chance of its survival. In this episode of RegWatch Live, we are joined by Thomas Kirsop, vaping advocate, and retail shop owner to discuss the apparent unwinding of the...

With an extraordinary amount of misinformation and vitriol swirling around vaping, it’s hard to believe public perception could change any time soon. Yet, there could be an occasion for hope, and surprisingly, the optimism is grounded in FDA’s premarket tobacco application process. In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by Alex Norcia, staff writer at Filter and former vaping beat reporter at...

Any day now, Canadian vapers expect Health Canada to announce a nationwide restriction for nicotine levels in vaping products that promise to cut by over half the amount of nicotine available in current devices and e-liquids. It’s also feared the regulator will soon follow with a national ban on e-liquid flavours that is certain to devastate the industry and destroy a vital tool over one million C...

Another Canadian province bans flavours in nicotine vaping products in response to the moral panic over teen vaping. With astonishing speed, the province of New Brunswick tabled and passed new legislation guaranteed to destroy adult access and choice to the products many use as a safer alternative to smoking. Join RegWatch’s same-day coverage with a response to the new flavour ban from Dr. John Oy...

Guest: Mike Meatherel, President & Founder, Dvine Laboratories Released: June 11, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford & Maria Papaioannoy-Duic https://youtu.be/JmEXPDpktt8 *Support RegWatch - Go to https://support.regulatorwatch.com

*Guests: David Sweanor & Chris Lalonde Released: June 8, 2021 Original Stream: May 30, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford & Maria Papaioannoy-Duic Segment from World Vape Day Coverage *Support RegWatch - Go to support(dot)regulatorwatch(dot)com https://youtu.be/usRuAjdOlz0 Support RegWatch go to https://support.regulatorwatch.com  

Complete 3-hour North American Coverage hosted by RegWatch in partnership with Rights4Vapers and presented by DViNE Laboratories. Live Streamed: May 30, 2021 Released: June 1, 2021 Produced by Brent Stafford & Maria Papaioannoy-Duic *Support RegWatch - Go to https://support.regulatorwatch.com https://youtu.be/CGRl6AGpfUU  

*Guest: Cliff Douglas, Former VP, Tobacco Control, American Cancer Society It is a horribly one-sided battle, public health’s war against safer nicotine products such as vaping, heated tobacco products, and oral snus. After decades of hammering the message that smokers must quit or they will die, public health and the tobacco control community are now trying to eradicate the very products millions...

It’s hard to believe it could happen in Canada, a government assault on one’s right to speak freely, to share information, and to engage in the operation of a lawful business without fear of penalty or fine.   It’s even harder to believe this is not a reference to the ongoing challenges resulting from the 2020 pandemic. No. These are the words RegWatch first used in February of 2016 to describe th...

For everyone, there’s nothing in life more certain than death and taxes. Yet if you are a smoker the risk of death and pain of taxation increases by orders of magnitude, often thanks to ill-conceived government action. Case-in-point the United States of America and the growing hostility towards safer nicotine products, such as vaping. In just a few short years anti-vaping campaigns, flavor bans an...

In one way or another, every conversation we bring you about vaping is a conversation about nicotine. Whether it be regulations, the latest media scare, or a promising piece of new science, nicotine looms large over all the issues. Without nicotine, there would be no smoking and, of course, no need for safer nicotine products. Joining us today on RegWatch is Paddy Costall, a global tobacco harm re...

At times it can be quite maddening trying to sort out the reasoning behind public health’s opposition to tobacco harm reduction. Now it’s true not everyone within public health opposes THR products, such as vaping and smokeless tobacco, but for those who do, they seem to hold all the power. Joining us for the first time on RegWatch is Dr. Lynn T. Kozlowski, Prof of Community Health and Health Beha...

It’s astonishing to witness how swift the Canadian vaping industry’s fortunes have changed following the legalization and regulation of vapour products in 2018. After experiencing explosive growth and successfully navigating the complexities of a newly enacted regulatory regime, the Canadian vaping industry now faces destruction. Turmoil over the so-called youth vaping “epidemic” and reputational...

“Show yourself and your conflicts” is the call from Dr. Roberto Sussman, an advocate for consumers of non-combustible nicotine products in Mexico and Latin America, to the billionaire philanthropist, and anti-vaping crusader, Michael Bloomberg. To an extraordinary extent, Bloomberg influences public health policymaking within numerous countries, at multiple levels of government, via a complex netw...

Billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg is well-known in America for incessant moralizing over the products he believes government should ban people from consuming, in the name of good public health. But few know the magnitude of Bloomberg’s impact in developing countries around the world. Over the past decade, Bloomberg-funded organizations have made concerted efforts to eradicate low-risk n...

In a world filled with grand conspiracy theories, it can be difficult to nail down a proper villain. After all, there’s no shortage of bad actors. But when it comes to the war on vaping there’s really only one, the billionaire Michael Bloomberg. In this special series of RegWatch, we explore how Bloomberg uses his power and money to backstop a tangled web of philanthropic organizations who cajole,...

*Guest: Michelle Minton, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute - The law banning the shipment of nicotine vaping products via the U.S. postal service is set to go into effect at the end of next month, leaving many consumers with limited options to secure the products they rely on to quit smoking. Joining us today on RegWatch to talk about the impact and politics behind the U.S. vap...

The U.S. vaping industry faces many unforeseen challenges, but none is more threatening than the challenge posed by underage vaping.  Preventing youth use of vaping products is the number one goal of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its onerous Premarket Tobacco Application Process (PMTA.) And while many vaping companies struggle to meet the high bar set by FDA to remain in business, the...

It’s a legitimate concern for the Canadian vaping industry, how to redesign refillable vaping devices and vaping parts to meet Health Canada regulations for child-resistant containers, during the middle of a pandemic, and under unbelievably tight timelines. The new requirements could have been an industry killer, but thanks to global leaders like Innokin Technology Canadian vapers are able to vape...

Nicotine vaping devices are a disruptive technology that forever changed the prospects for cigarette smokers who want to quit. But success comes at a price and for the vaping industry that price is the enmity of many tobacco-controllers and public health. One such vaping opponent is philanthropist Michael Bloomberg. He’s provided hundreds of millions of dollars to groups and governments in support...

In “The Art of War,” the great military strategist and general Sun Tzu says, “Every battle is won before it is ever fought.” Meaning In order to set the stage for victory, you need to manage both your resources and your forces wisely. Now that’s good advice, but what does one do if resources are scarce to begin with and your forces are disparate and hard to unite? Joining us today to discuss this...