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Two seismic shocks have rocked the vaping industry. On Tuesday, Brian King—the embattled Director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products—was ousted, signaling a major shake-up at an agency widely blamed for sabotaging tobacco harm reduction. Then today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear FDA v. Wages and White Lion, extinguishing hopes for judicial relief from the FDA’s broken PMTA process.
King’s removal—reportedly part of a broader Trump-led overhaul of federal health leadership—is a pivotal moment. Under his watch, the FDA blocked flavored vaping products, sidelined cessation science, overruled its own Office of Science, and approved hundreds of cigarettes while denying nearly all vapor products. His regulatory stance inflicted lasting damage on small businesses, former smokers, and public trust in the FDA.
Joining RegWatch to break down the implications of both King’s ouster and the SCOTUS decision is Jim McCarthy, President of Counterpoint Strategies and lead communications advisor to the American Vapor Manufacturers (AVM).
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Released: April 2, 2025
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Tuesday Mar 25, 2025
Nicotine doesn’t cause cancer—yet safer nicotine products like vapes and pouches remain under relentless attack. This, despite the role these products play in driving smoking rates to historic lows across the Western world. Why is the war on smoking turning into a war on nicotine?
In this episode, Dr. Jonathan Foulds, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Psychiatry at Penn State University, joins us to unpack the contradictions at the heart of public health’s approach to nicotine. We discuss the scientific evidence behind vaping and nicotine pouches, the FDA’s inconsistent regulatory decisions, and how misinformation is fueling a war on harm reduction.
Dr. Foulds also shares insights from his new book Treating Addiction to Tobacco and Nicotine Products, and breaks down his recent research showing that even smokers with no plans to quit can benefit from switching to lower-risk nicotine products.
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Released: March 25, 2025
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted marketing orders for 20 Zyn flavored nicotine pouch products—the first time the agency has authorized such products. The decision left many in the vaping world stunned—not just by the range of flavors greenlit, from cinnamon and citrus to coffee and peppermint—but by the FDA’s continued foot-dragging on e-cigarette approvals. Why the disparity when both pouches and vapes are considered safer nicotine alternatives?
Joining us to break it all down is Kevin Schroth, J.D., Associate Professor at Rutgers School of Public Health and the Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies. Find out why the FDA’s uneven treatment of these products comes down to a risk-benefit analysis entirely focused on youth. What does this mean for the future of vaping?
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Released: March 10, 2025
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Professor Gerry Stimson, public health social scientist and co-founder of the Global Forum on Nicotine receives the 2023 Michael Russell Award in recognition of a lifetime’s commitment to evidence-based public health interventions. Hear his reaction to the award and thoughts about what’s coming next for GFN and tobacco harm reduction.Guest: Gerry Stimson, Co-founder, Global Forum on Nicotine / Director, Knowledge-Action-Change (KAC) / Emeritus Professor, Imperial College London
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Original Airdate: July 21, 2023
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Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Hear how science drives the development of reduced-risk nicotine products at BAT, one of the world’s largest tobacco companies. And learn how it uses science to help ‘seal the deal’ with regulators.
Guest: Dr. Summer Hanna, VP Scientific Regulatory Engagement, BAT
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Produced by Brent Stafford
Original Airdate: July 7, 2023
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Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Tuesday Mar 04, 2025
Could tobacco control be facing impending irrelevance? It may be the case considering safer nicotine products solve a problem many have spent entire careers trying to fix through blunt force and turning smokers into patients.
Guest: Clive Bates, Tobacco Control Policy Expert, Counterfactual Consulting / Former Dir. of Action on Smoking and Health (UK)
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Original Airdate: June 16, 2023
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Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Thursday Feb 20, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit targeting Demand Vape, a major distributor of flavored vaping products and an anchor supporter of RegWatch. The lawsuit accuses the company of fueling an illegal market, but critics argue that the real culprit is New York’s prohibitionist policies. RegWatch breaks down the case, exposes the dangers of vaping bans, and responds to this latest attack on harm reduction.
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Released: February 20, 2025
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Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
For many within public health, the war on tobacco is over—and the new enemy is nicotine. It’s an uncomfortable pivot, one that requires ignoring what may be the greatest public health achievement of the century: the collapse of smoking rates across the Western world. Instead of celebrating, tobacco control, regulators, and activists have turned their guns on safer nicotine products—demonizing vaping, banning flavors, and destroying small businesses.
In the U.S., independent vape companies are under siege, and in the UK—once the world’s leader in evidence-based policy—new laws are paving the way for outright prohibition.
Joining us today to break down the lies, bans, politics, and betrayal in the war on nicotine are two of the most prolific voices in tobacco harm reduction: Lindsey Stroud, and Martin Cullip from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance out of Washington, D.C.
Is nicotine control going to win this fight?
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Released: February 11, 2025
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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Thursday Jan 30, 2025
Thursday Jan 30, 2025
For two years, RegWatch has documented the mounting challenges faced by Ontario’s health service providers—physiotherapists, chiropractors, and massage therapists—who deliver essential rehabilitation treatments to victims of auto accidents. These critical practitioners are nearing a breaking point as outdated reimbursement rates and relentless administrative demands leave them burned out and patients underserved.
In the spring of 2024, the Doug Ford Progressive Conservative government made commitments in Ontario’s budget, promising much-needed relief for health service providers.
Today, we’re joined by Darryl Tempest, CEO of HRC Innovations, for an update on the status of these reforms.
Has the Ford government delivered on its promises?
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Released: January 30, 2025
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Saturday Jan 25, 2025
Saturday Jan 25, 2025
Seeds of public health’s war on vaping were planted decades ago during the fight against secondhand smoke. What began as a strategy to combat smoking has evolved into a campaign of deception—one that distorts science, spreads misinformation, and undermines harm reduction.
WATCH PART 1 NOW | Discover how the campaign began and set the stage for this explosive second installment—only on GFN.TV.
Joining us again for Part 2 of our special series is Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor of public health at Tufts University and long-time advocate for tobacco harm reduction. Dr. Siegel traces the origins of this campaign of deception and reveals how it now dominates the FDA and CDC, leading to regulatory failures that demonize vaping, hand control of the industry to Big Tobacco, and fuel a thriving black market.
Why are public health agencies scheming to destroy vaping?
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Released: January 26, 2025
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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