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Hard compromises that no one will like is how eminent tobacco control scholar Dr. Kenneth Warner describes some of the recently released recommendations in a new policy paper addressing the struggle over e-cigarettes. The article offers a mix of policy proposals covering critical issues that impact vaping: flavors, taxes, youth use, nicotine, misinformation, and regulatory approval of nicotine vap...

THR advocates in Asia Pacific find compromise and push back in the battle for safer nicotine products *Guest: Nancy Loucas, Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocate, CAPHRA, Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates Original Airdate: March 31, 2022 Posted: September 20, 2022 https://youtu.be/oiIMQPwgKfs Make RegWatch happen, go to support(dot)regulatorwatch(dot)com Watch GFN News every sec...

There’s no mystery as to why nicotine vaping suffers a dismal reputation. Non-profits and foundations like Bloomberg Philanthropies, Truth Initiative, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the “body part orgs” have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and applied tremendous pressure to misinform the public and influence policymakers regarding the potential harms of vaping. Veteran reporter Marc Gun...

Is the Canadian government unreasonably attacking the vaping industry? For years, I’ve been asked by viewers and industry advocates about securing positive media coverage from Rebel News on vaping issues. I’m happy to report we earned that coverage! Drea Humphrey, director of Rebel’s west coast operation, just released a 12minute television interview shot at the RegWatch studio covering the federa...

Is the FDA finally getting serious about fighting combustible cigarettes? For the past several years, it’s been hard to tell, considering the agency’s animus towards nicotine vaping. But some say FDA’s recent move to ban menthol cigarettes may be “particularly effective” in reducing smoking, especially if FDA makes mint and menthol flavored e-cigarettes available as an option to switch. In this ep...

What’s driving Health Canada’s war on vaping? Does the regulator favour drug harm reduction over tobacco harm reduction? And is it too late to make a policy change? Find out, only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com. *Guest: David Sweanor, Adj. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa & Tobacco-control Policy Expert Shot on location in Warsaw, Poland, at the Global Forum on Nicotine 2022. Rel...

Tobacco control expert David Sweanor says he remains “hopeful” for the future of nicotine vaping in the United States. But it all depends on whether the FDA embraces the maxim: don’t do stupid. *Guest: David Sweanor, Adj. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa & Tobacco-control Policy Expert Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com. Shot on location in Warsaw, Poland, at the Global Forum on...

Canada’s top harm reduction advocate says it’s time to consider alternatives to combustible tobacco, over prohibition. *Guest: Dr. Mark Tyndall, Physician, Infectious Disease Specialist, Former Exec. Dir. BC Centre for Disease Control, Harm Reduction Advocate Original Airdate: March 3, 2022 Posted: August 9, 2022 https://youtu.be/8D_BQFC4qnk Make RegWatch happen https://support.regulatorwatch.com...

What motives seemingly rational people: professionals, scientists, and so-called experts in public health to proselytize and propagandize against safer nicotine products?  Joining us today to pick through this question and more is Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and prolific writer on harm reduction policy issues for major publications such as InsideSources...

The research flow of “exaggerated” and “distorted” information about safer nicotine products is “not going to end any time soon,” says Dr. Brad Rodu, professor of medicine from the University of Louisville. Rodu has made a career battling forces responsible for pushing suspect science in the field of tobacco control. In this episode of RegWatch, he takes the CDC to task over EVALI and its teen vap...

There is one issue with the potential to unite anti-vaping campaigners with pro-vaping advocates and business owners in the Canadian vaping industry, and that issue is enforcement. Both sides in the battle over vaping want to stop teen use of nicotine vaping products, yet the laws intended to prevent teen access are doing tremendous damage to the retail vaping industry while often going unenforced...

Since nicotine vapes first hit the market in 2007, the United States has been the lead driver of innovation and consumer adoption of these products, worldwide. But while the U.S. is still the largest market for vaping products, anti-vaping zealotry and regulatory insolence has all but destroyed the legal U.S. vaping industry. Case-in-point FDA’s recent ban on Juul. Joining us today for a deep dive...

As discussed on RegWatch over the past year, it appears Health Canada is taking a wrong turn on nicotine vaping. In a few short years, the regulatory framework, which legalized vaping, seems to have collapsed under the weight of a moral panic over teen vaping and malicious public health messaging linking nicotine vapes to a mysterious respiratory illness. Dr. Jonathan Foulds, Professor of Public H...

*Guest: Dr. Jonathan Foulds, Prof., Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry, Penn State, Cancer Institute Anti-vaping activists cling to many shibboleths in their war on vaping, including nicotine vaping is a gateway to smoking, dual-use is a danger negating e-cig quit attempts, and vaping is an ineffective tool to quit smoking. But thanks to a growing body of research investigating e-cigarette use...

Over the past months, several new research studies have released with surprisingly positive results regarding the most contentious issues around e-cigarettes. One study indicates that adult smokers who switch to e-cigarettes may have more chances to improve their health and well-being. Joining us today to discuss the study are Dr. Rick Kosterman and Dr. Marina Epstein, research scientists from the...

With the deadline for PMTA submissions for synthetic nicotine products now closed, the U.S. vaping industry is again held hostage to FDA’s plodding regulatory review process and closed mind regarding the authorization of nicotine vapes. FDA’s track record is dismal, issuing Marketing Denial Orders for millions of existing products and refusing to allow non-tobacco flavors. Is there any reason to b...

With the comment period now closed for the legislative review of Canada’s Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, Canadian vapers again find themselves in “wait-and-see mode.” It’s hard to believe, but this month is the fourth anniversary of nicotine vaping products becoming legal in Canada. It’s been a brutal four years, and much of the blame lies at the feet of Canada’s health regulator. Joining us tod...

In this special report from the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the United States RegWatch executive producer Brent Stafford provides commentary on the FDA’s recent marketing granted order for an NJOY nicotine vape system and discusses the potential impact of the proposed federal ban on menthol cigarettes. Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com Released: April 30, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford https://...

According to industry analyst Michelle Minton, the future for nicotine vaping in the United States looks “pretty brutal,” following the FDA’s marketing denial orders, the vape mail ban, and the loss of synthetic nicotine as an ingredient in nicotine vapes. In the battle against anti-vaping forces, no one is more tenacious than Michelle Minton, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institut...

One might hope the plunge in teen vaping and near eradication of teen smoking would prompt Health Canada and the federal government to slow their campaign to restrict adult access and choice to nicotine vaping products. But this is clearly not the case, the outlook for vaping in Canada may be growing worse. Joining us today to discuss the compounding threats to the Canadian vaping industry is Dani...

It isn’t easy for vapers to secure access and choice to safer nicotine products. It’s enough already dealing with junk science, anti-vaping hysteria, and the constant pummelling by public health prohibitionists and federal regulators. But now, vapers face a new, more sinister reality. Strip searches, violent police enforcement, and arrest could result from nicotine vaping or trading in illegal nic...

Surprising comments on the benefits of nicotine vaping and other safer nicotine products by Canadian pharmacists and a top research scientist, delivered at the Harm Reduction Forum on April 5, 2022, in Vancouver, B.C.  Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com. Released: April 7, 2022 Produced by Brent Stafford https://youtu.be/bARPX_bQbhw Part of our “Last Stand” coverage *Support RegWatch - Go to h...

It’s an original sin of Canada’s federal vaping regulations, the enshrinement of vaping as a health hazard rather than a safer nicotine source for smokers trying to quit. Every aspect of Health Canada’s approach to vaping regulation and its public health messaging is based on this tenuous assumption. Health Canada’s authority to regulate vaping products rests in the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act...

Congress granted FDA the authority to regulate synthetic nicotine in a crass attempt to ameliorate the moral panic over teen vaping. A problem that many researchers say is waning if it existed at all. Joining us today for a special LIVE edition of RegWatch is Amanda Wheeler, president of the American Vapor Manufacturers. Learn what happens next for the U.S. vaping industry as it navigates the trea...

It’s been nine months since Health Canada released details of its proposed nationwide ban on flavours in nicotine vaping products and there is still no word on whether the regulator intends to pull the trigger on what many believe could be a disaster for public health. Is Health Canada punting on the flavour ban? Joining us today for a special issue update edition of RegWatch is Dr. Mark Tyndall,...