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
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
RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)
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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Produced by Brent Stafford
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.
Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.
Released: February 20, 2025
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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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?
Find out—only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.
Released: February 11, 2025
Produced by: Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE.
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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?
Find out now—only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.
Released: January 30, 2025
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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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?
Find out—only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.
Released: January 26, 2025
Produced by: Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE.
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Saturday Jan 11, 2025
Saturday Jan 11, 2025
The future of the U.S. vaping industry hangs in the balance. As Donald Trump prepares to retake the White House, his administration could dismantle FDA red tape and overhaul tobacco harm reduction—or let bureaucracy and big tobacco tighten their grip.
In this episode of RegWatch, Brent Stafford interviews Clive Bates, renowned tobacco control policy expert, to unpack what’s at stake for millions of American vapers.
Should Trump’s team reform the system—or burn it all down?
Find out—only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.
Released: January 11, 2025
Produced by: Brent Stafford
This episode is supported by DEMAND VAPE.
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Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
REWIND: Hear how a once skeptical drug policy advocate became convinced about the power of nicotine vapes to help make positive changes in the lives of the vulnerable.
Guest: David Mackintosh, Director Operations, Knowledge Action Change / Drug Policy, Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocate
RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)
Produced by Brent Stafford
Original Airdate: June 2, 2023
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Monday Dec 30, 2024
Monday Dec 30, 2024
Tobacco use in U.S. prisons is akin to air, it’s ubiquitous. And like air, for the vast majority of the incarcerated the need to inhale tobacco smoke approaches desperation. Would providing access to nicotine vaping products fix the craving and maybe save lives? Find out in this interview with health and behaviour researcher Dr. Cheryl K. Olson.
Guest: Cheryl K. Olson MPH, ScD, Health and Behavior Researcher, Behaviour Science Advisor, McKinney RSA / Public Health Columnist, Tobacco Reporter
RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)
Produced by Brent Stafford
Original Airdate: May 19, 2023
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Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Sunday Dec 29, 2024
Get the inside scoop on the speakers and presentations at GFN23 with Jessica Harding, program director of the Global Forum on Nicotine 2023.
RegWatch on GFN.TV (Rewind)
Produced by Brent Stafford
Original Airdate: May 5, 2023
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