Incisive coverage of the issues important to vaping. Plus critical debate over the issues and impacts of regulation in both Canada and the U.S.
Episodes
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
Wednesday Jul 28, 2021
*In partnership with Rights4Vapers | It’s not an exaggeration to say Health Canada‘s proposed ban on flavours in nicotine vaping products will push hundreds of thousands of Canadians back to smoking because Health Canada freely admits this fact in the Regulatory Analysis Impact Statement for the proposed new regulations. But if a flavour ban in Canada leads to more people smoking, it also means more suffering, disease, and death. Does Health Canada admit this troubling fact? Does the health regulator even care?
In this jam-packed special edition of RegWatch, we’ll dig into these questions. Joining us as co-host is national vaping activist Maria Papaioannoy-Duic from Rights4Vapers and guests include Shai Bekman, president of DashVapes Inc.; Luke Marshall, owner of County Vape; and David Levesque, founding partner of Digital Smoke supplies.
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Live Streamed: July 27, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford and Maria Papaioannoy-Duic
This episode is supported by SIR VAPE-A-LOT - LA VAPOTE - CANADA E-CLOUDS
Part of our “Last Stand” coverage
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Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
As far as inflection points go, the U.S. vaping industry has met its share of turmoil over the past few years. Yet, the industry still manages to hold on. But what’s next for vaping as we approach the court-mandated September 2021 deadline for FDA to review premarket tobacco product applications?
Joining us today is regulatory and public policy lawyer Azim Chowdhury from the firm Keller & Heckman. For over a decade, Chowdhury’s been one of the most prominent legal advocates for the U.S. vaping industry.
In this episode of RegWatch, we take a deep dive into the most pressing issues facing the industry. Will FDA provide market authorization to more than just a handful of big vape companies? What’s the status on flavors, taxes, and the vape mail ban? Will the U.S. vaping industry survive?
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Released: July 15, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Monday Jul 12, 2021
Monday Jul 12, 2021
It’s inexplicable. The Canadian government appears hellbent on destroying the health and wellbeing of over one million citizens in a misguided, ill-conceived effort to eradicate nicotine use in the country.
Now the feds are not attempting to eradicate smoking, the habit that kills tens of tens of thousands of Canadians each year. No, it’s nicotine vaping products that the government is poised to ban, which are a vastly safer source of nicotine, and the very same products the Liberal-led Canadian government legalized only three years ago.
Joining us today on RegWatch is Janine Timmons, a concerned Canadian user of nicotine vaping products and long-time supporter of the federal Liberals. Timmons is shaken by Health Canada’s “absolutely reckless” move to ban flavors, which the regulator acknowledges will push some people back to smoking.
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Released: July 12, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by SELECT VAPES - LUCKY 8 VAPES - MISTER VAPOR
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Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
The global war against safer nicotine vaping products continues unabated with new flavor bans, nicotine restrictions, and vaping taxes. Tobacco control says these measures are intended to eradicate the youth vaping epidemic, but harm reduction activists fear the result will be to drive millions of people back to smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by Charles A. Gardener, executive director of INNCO, the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organizations for a deep dive into the tactics used by tobacco control to destroy nicotine vaping as a viable alternative to smoking.
Hear analysis on flavor bans and why teen vaping rates have plummeted by 29% and learn why he thinks anti-vaping activists could be in for a shock when the U.S. FDA announces market authorizations under its PMTA process.
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Released: July 8, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Should Canadian vapers take the blame for Health Canada’s war on vaping? Or is the regulator captured by non-profit health groups operating with political purpose?
*Guest: Janine Timmons, former smoker, vaping products consumer
Released: July 6, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DRAGON VAPE - VAPOUR CHOICE - P SQUARED VAPES
Part of our “Last Stand” coverage
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Monday Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Is Health Canada paying attention to the unintended consequences of its war on vaping?
*Guest: Janine Timmons, former smoker, vaping products consumer
Released: July 5, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DRAGON VAPE - VAPOUR CHOICE - P SQUARED VAPES
Part of our “Last Stand” coverage
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Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Just three years after the legalization of nicotine vaping products in Canada a slate of new regulations, which includes a national flavour ban, nicotine cap, and federal excise tax, promises to punish the industry and destroy any chance of its survival.
In this episode of RegWatch Live, we are joined by Thomas Kirsop, vaping advocate, and retail shop owner to discuss the apparent unwinding of the legal vaping industry in Canada. What will be the result?
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Live Streamed: June 23, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by VANGO VAPES - BIG EAST VAPOR - KICK ASH VAPES
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Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
With an extraordinary amount of misinformation and vitriol swirling around vaping, it’s hard to believe public perception could change any time soon. Yet, there could be an occasion for hope, and surprisingly, the optimism is grounded in FDA’s premarket tobacco application process.
In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by Alex Norcia, staff writer at Filter and former vaping beat reporter at VICE. Hear why he thinks many could be in for a shock this September when FDA grants marketing approval to certain vaping products.
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Released: June 21, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE
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Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Any day now, Canadian vapers expect Health Canada to announce a nationwide restriction for nicotine levels in vaping products that promise to cut by over half the amount of nicotine available in current devices and e-liquids. It’s also feared the regulator will soon follow with a national ban on e-liquid flavours that is certain to devastate the industry and destroy a vital tool over one million Canadians use to quit smoking.
In this episode of RegWatch, we are joined by Ian Irvine, Professor of Economics at Concordia University and Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute. Hear his warning to Health Canada that these efforts, ostensibly to combat teen vaping, would lead to an increase in smoking-related disease and death.
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Released: June 17, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DIGITAL SMOKE SUPPLIES and NORTH ISLAND VAPORS
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Friday Jun 11, 2021
Friday Jun 11, 2021
Another Canadian province bans flavours in nicotine vaping products in response to the moral panic over teen vaping. With astonishing speed, the province of New Brunswick tabled and passed new legislation guaranteed to destroy adult access and choice to the products many use as a safer alternative to smoking.
Join RegWatch’s same-day coverage with a response to the new flavour ban from Dr. John Oyston, Canadian anesthesiologist, and harm reduction advocate.
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Released: June 11, 2021
Produced by Brent Stafford
This episode is part of our “Last Stand” coverage
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