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Vapers, vape shop owners, and harm reduction advocates in British Columbia attended two rallies on Saturday—one in Victoria and the other in Vancouver—to call on the B.C. provincial government to protect the rights of vapers and adult smokers to choose a less harmful alternative to smoking. RegWatch caught the Vancouver rally and grabbed great interviews with Dr. Mark Tyndall, Saadiq Daya, and mor...

*Guest: Dr. Raymond Niaura, NYU College of Global Public Health Fear is appealing, infectious and proven to motivate people to change the way they think and act. It’s no wonder then that the public health profession employs fear as a textbook tactic in its effort to persuade the public to modify behavior. To be effective, fear appeals must operate at the population level, thus national panics over...

It’s hard to overstate the importance of the policy shift on vaping announced this week by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. In its latest national smoking cessation guidelines, the College now supports GPs and other health professionals if they wish to recommend vaping to smokers who have tried to quit but were unsuccessful with currently available medications. As is the case...

Public health’s war on nicotine vaping is unrelenting and without mercy. Over the past 18-months an unprecedented amount of disinformation—regarding the health impacts of vaping—flooded the mainstream media, poisoned public perception and triggered vaping product bans across North America. Clearly, scaremongering works. One company that’s had enough with the disinformation and is fighting back is...

Nick (Grimm) Green joins RegWatch to talk: the hysteria ginned up by the CDC over the mysterious lung-related illness; advocacy efforts underway to fight flavor bans, how vaping advocates put an army of vapers on Twitter; and how he and other vape focussed YouTubers are surviving the crush of increasing censorship and constant threats of revenue model destruction. It’s a jammed packed don’t miss e...

Joining us on RegWatch is Dr. Riccardo Polosa the world’s foremost researcher on nicotine vaping and its effects on the lung and respiratory system. Dr. Polosa is a Respiratory Physician, professor, and Director of the Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology at the University of Catania, Italy. Dr. Polosa is an expert in lung disease and over numerous studies, his research provides c...

Back in November when the government of British Columbia announced it would enact new vaping restrictions in order to protect youth, little concern was paid to the tens of thousands of adults in the province who rely on vaping as a tool to quit smoking. In mid-December, the provincial government released details of the changes in what it calls an “Intentions Paper,” which if enacted, would destroy...

One would hope the forces allied against vaping would observe a cessation of hostilities and allow for a peaceful holiday season, but hope is all that it would be. Over the holidays, in a series of surprise meetings and after a quick pass through the regulatory process, the Trump flavored vape ban moved from dormant to a fait accompli. First to break the news was Paul Blair, Director of Strategic...

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 disastrou...

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...

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 o...

The deep, dark, ugly truth is often too much to bear. Do you dare to hear the truth? RegRant on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com. Live Streamed: December 9, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford

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...

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" Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com Streamed: December 5, 2019 Produced by: Bren...

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" Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com Streamed: December 5, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford This episode is supported by: STLTH...

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 Watch the full episode "Got it Wrong" Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com Streamed: December 5, 2019 Produced by: Brent Stafford This episode is supported by: STLTH Make RegWatch happen, go to: support(dot)regulatorwatch(dot)com

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...

*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 nicotin...

It was a pinnacle moment for the U.S. vaping industry. At the White House on Friday, vaping industry leaders met face-to-face with anti-vaping opponents, public-health advocates and President Trump in what was billed as a “listening session” to address the surge in underage vaping. Issues concerning flavors (including a flavor ban) captivated the discussion and provided for much of the disagreemen...

At no other time has the nicotine vaping industry faced such intense controversy. Under fire for the so-called youth vaping “epidemic” and besieged from all sides over the gross allegation that it’s responsible for the so-called “vaping-related” lung illness—the industry is in a fight for its very survival. While faced with these challenges the industry has fractured into essentially two camps: th...

*Guest: Tristan Thompson, Vaping Legion True conspiracies, obvious treachery and the maniacal hive mind of the anti-vaping progressive. This is a conversation you don’t want to miss! +++update on the fight to save vaping in the state of Massachusetts Streamed: November 20, 2019. Produced by: Brent Stafford This episode is supported by: STLTH Make RegWatch happen, go to: support(dot)regulatorwatch(...

**Guest: John Xydous with special appearance by Tristan Thompson As the jackboots of authoritarian government stomp across North America, it would do well for vapers to note that in at least one jurisdiction, the province of Quebec there is life after a brutal vape crackdown. The Quebec vaping industry is surviving after almost 4-years of operating under an oppressive anti-vaping regime that strip...

The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading progressive newspaper, published a 5,000-word attack on the Canadian vaping industry at the end of last week and then followed up with a searing editorial on Sunday. As it appears, the purpose of the exposé is to reveal scandalous and potentially criminal marketing practices of numerous Canadian vape companies. In what the Globe and Mail deem is an effort to ho...

The B.C. provincial government is taking what it calls “bold action” in an effort to stem the rise in youth vaping the province. The new vaping regulations include increasing the provincial sales tax on vaping products, restricting the amount of nicotine in e-liquid to 20 milligrams per milliliter and forcing plain packaging with health warnings on all vapour products. The new rules stop short of...

Inarguably, if President Trump decides to dial-back his proposed national ban on flavored vaping products, then millions of American vapers will have only one person to thank and his name is Paul Blair. Blair is a policy strategist for the conservative-based advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform; for many, he’s the hero who crunched Trump’s 2016 state-by-state vote totals and loudly warned the p...