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*Guest: Dimitris Agrafiotis, Exec. Dir. Tennessee Smoke Free Association, @VapinGreek - It’s only been one day since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s anti-vaping regulation went into effect and already the FDA has informed some stakeholders that their Premarket Tobacco Applications have been received and accepted for review by the regulator. Is there truly a glimmer of hope for the survival...

*Guest: Guy Bentley, Dir. of Consumer Freedom, Reason Foundation - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s anti-vaping regulation takes effect today Wednesday, September 9, and promises to deliver a lethal blow to the U.S. vaping industry. Guy Bentley, Dir. of Consumer Freedom at the Reason Foundation joins RegWatch to discuss the impact of the industry killing Premarket Tobacco Application Proces...

*Guests: Tristan Thompson and Sherwin Mena, United Vapers Alliance For the second time in less than a year, vapers are set to descend on Washington, DC to call on President Trump to intervene and put a stop to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s industry killing Premarket Tobacco Application Process. The rally is scheduled for September 5th, just 4-days before the PMTA deadline and organizers...

Armageddon for the U.S. vaping industry is fast approaching, and all hopes for a reprieve from the Trump administration are all but dashed. What if anything is happening behind the scenes to save the industry? What will become of the 150,000 jobs, the 11,000 small businesses, the thousands of manufactures, and the millions of vapers when the FDA’s PMTA deadline passes on September 9th? Joining us...

*Get ready to think! (42 mins) - Key clips from our episode SEISMIC SWITCH - Guest: David Sweanor, Ottawa lawyer, renowned tobacco-control policy expert Hear how a tsunami of misinformation and the peddling of doubt about vaping, led to a comeback in cigarette smoking. Who’s to blame? Find out! RegClips by RegulatorWatch.com Length:   41:45 Released: Aug 15, 2020 Org. Stream:  Aug 13, 2020 This ep...

*Get ready to think! (16mins)  - Key clips from our episode PIVOTAL MOMENT | Dr. David Hammond Buries Correction on Teen Smoking Rates, with Dr. Chris Lalonde Professor of Psychology, University of Victoria. RegClips by RegulatorWatch.com Length:   15:52 Released: August 6, 2020 Org. Stream:  July 23, 2020 Make RegWatch happen: Fall Fight - 2020 Vaping Coverage Fundraiser Go to: https://support.re...

*Guest: Amanda Wheeler, National Vaping advocate   For the U.S. vaping industry, the past 12-months have been horrific. Countless vaping product retailers and many e-liquid manufacturers have shuttered operations in the wake of the so-called epidemic of teen vaping, the CDC’s outright deception over the so-called vaping-related lung illness and following the economic destruction resulting from the...

*Guest: Dave Bryans, CEO of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association   Caught between big tobacco and big government is how Dave Bryans, CEO of the Ontario Convenience Stores Association, describes the predicament that family-run convenience stores face in Ontario as a result of the upheaval over the so-called youth vaping epidemic.   OCSA’s membership totals over 3,000 independently run C-Store...

*Guest: Dr. Chris Lalonde Professor of Psychology, University of Victoria - When University of Waterloo professor David Hammond first shared preliminary results of his teen vaping and smoking study with Health Canada and the media in late 2018, he did so with the “hope” that his findings were just a “blip”; a sentiment he expressed at the time, and then again in June 2019 when the study was finall...

*Guest: Darryl Tempest, Exec. Dir. and Lead Advocate, Canadian Vaping Association   It is said nature abhors a vacuum and in regard to vaping regulations in Canada, this maxim appears to hold true. In the wake of the teen vaping epidemic and concern over the so-called “vaping-related lung illness,” provincial governments across the country have taken matters into their own hands by issuing a patch...

It is the single most important question: Is vaping safe? Despite a mountain of research pointing to low health risks associated with vaping compared to smoking; a definitive answer remains elusive. But researchers behind a new multi-site international study of the health effects of vaping hope to remedy that and need your help.   The VERITAS (Vaping effects: real-world international surveillance)...

*Guest: Sam Tam, President of the Canada Vaping Association - In the effort to stem youth use of vaping products, Health Canada announced its final Vaping Products Promotion Regulations, which set out measures to further restrict the advertising and promotion of vaping products to youth. Central to the government’s approach is a strict requirement to display “health warnings” on all vaping product...

*Guest: Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, Founding Chairman of the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Assoc. It was a surprise decision issued by Australia’s Minister of Health to ban the personal importation of liquid nicotine for vaping beginning on July 1. The order was issued on June 19, leaving little time for harm reduction activists and a coalition of MPs to mount an effective challenge to a law, which...

*Get ready to think! (2:15) - What’s the impact of COVID-19 on the UK? How much of a threat is it? And when or will society ever get back to normal? Clip from our May 5, RegWatch interview with John Britton, Prof. Epidemiology, University of Nottingham, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, Nottingham City Hospital RegClips by RegulatorWatch.com Length: 2:15 Released: June 26, 2020 Org. Stream: May...

*Guest: Kevin Crowley @Vapingit, Founder of Vapinglinks.blog He’s a secret, wrapped up in an enigma, and smothered in secret sauce. Who is he? Mike Peterson from “Vaping and the Mic” describes him as “the onion chef of Twitter.” Vapers.org.uk says his “gritty distinctive style is ever-readable.” And THR advocate Ivanna Awrey exclaims: “Bless your crankiness, Kevin Crowley!” Joining us today for a...

*Guest: Matt Culley, Vaping Activist and YouTube Content Creator There’s no doubt the U.S. vaping industry faces a public perception problem of gargantuan proportions. While advocates maintain (and research backs up) that vaping is a safer alternative to smoking, everyday anti-vaping forces meet continued success in their effort to permanently poison the public understanding of vaping. Compounding...

*Guest: Dr. Derek Yach, President of Foundation for a Smoke-Free World Not long ago, tobacco control researchers and public health officials openly discussed a possible worldwide “endgame” to combustible tobacco use, thus preventing the death of up to one billion smokers by end of this century. But today, the focus on endgame is forgotten as the tobacco control movement intensifies efforts to erad...

The fight to save vaping has always been a David versus Goliath struggle. Facing countless regulatory hurdles, the U.S. vaping industry mostly comes up short when seeking relief from the courts for what it believes to be arbitrary and capricious rulemaking by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. With FDA poised (yet again) to deliver a death blow to the U.S. vaping industry via its Pre-market To...

*Guest: Phil Busardo, celebrated YouTube show co-host and vape reviewer - Over the years the anti-vaping movement honed the tactics of creating mayhem and misery for those who rely on vaping as a tool for harm reduction. For vapers, wading through lies and half-truths has long been the daily norm. Yet the mendacity seems to be getting worse, as ideologues in the war on vaping capitalize on recent...

*Guest: Tristan Thompson - UVA, Vaping Legion It’s a worldwide day of action in support of a technology that millions of former smokers’ credit for saving their lives. May 30 is World Vape Day and in this episode of RegWatch we speak with Tristan Thompson, head of the Vaping Legion, and Board President of the United Vapers Alliance to recap the events of #WorldVapeDay and learn how vaping advocacy...

*Guest: David Praph, Marketing Manager & YouTube Content Creator How do you get a rambunctious group of disparate vapers to take interest in the ever-disheartening discussion around vaping regulation? The science on vaping is suspect, the news is biased, and public health mostly rejects vaping as a safer alternative to smoking. At times the situation is so bleak, it’s hard to find focus. And trust...

Does the enormity of the Coronavirus catastrophe mean the end of ‘woke’ politics? What’s the ideology behind political correctness? Does a communist look back when you gaze in a mirror? How might ‘woke’ make a comeback? And, what’s the impact on the U.S. Presidential election? RegClips by RegulatorWatch.com Length: 5:30 Org. Stream: May 3, 2020 Released: May 24, 2020 Make RegWatch happen, go to: s...

As the world begins to break loose from the totalitarian grip of public health, the enormity of the disaster (created by the hysterical response to the Coronavirus) is becoming tragically clear: Over one billion people in forced lockdown, nearly one-hundred million unemployed, millions thrust into poverty, and trillions of dollars of new debt shackled to the living and generations to come. It’s a...

*Guest: Dr. Duke Pesta, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin Even before the Coronavirus pandemic hit, forcing over 50 million schoolchildren in Canada and the U.S. out of class and into lockdown, the strain on North America’s education system was already showing. Suffering from the pernicious influence of ‘woke’ ideology and a relentless assault on individual achievement, many had wonder...

Is there a winning argument in the War on Vaping? Why is “liberty” a failed argument? How does a fundamental contradiction between “Vaping Saves Lives” and “Lockdowns Save Lives” lead to “the Body Argument?” Why does the future of vaping rely on progressive vapers? RegClips by RegulatorWatch.com Length: 8:18 Org. Stream: May 3, 2020 Released: May 16, 2020 Make RegWatch happen, go to: support(dot)r...