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***RegWatch Exclusive Interview (Part 1)*** 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. T...

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. Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com. 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 Libe...

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 i...

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...

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 othe...

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 Regulato...

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 withi...

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 brac...

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 safe...

COLLUSION | Dirty Details of the COORDINATED effort to KILL VAPING ***New Release*** Vapers are more prone to suspicion than the average member of the public. As former smokers, they were the victims of subterfuge and duplicity at the hands of big tobacco. But could wild-eyed theories of government collusion with academia, public health interest groups and the media in an effort to kill vaping, be...

Is there a connection between the war on vaping and rabid anti-colonialism? Could the maniacal hatred of everything tobacco be rooted in the founding of America? In this RegWatch Snippet we set forth this hypothesize: What do you think? Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com Produced by: Brent Stafford Released: January 7, 2019