2024 U.S. VAPING COVERAGE - PLAYLIST

Big Bad Wolf | Combating Bloomberg & His Media Minions |...

Michael Bloomberg is the big bad wolf of the U.S. vaping industry. Over the past two decades, he's spent nearly one billion dollars on tobacco...

Direct Attack | Anti-Vape Bills Inundate State Legislatures | RegWatch (Live)

In the war on vaping, it's a brutally effective attack that's unique to the U.S. marketplace. Known as PMTA registry or directory bills, its...

(Day 5) Good Cop / Bad Cop | RegWatch (Live)

Day 5 of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Good Cop / Bad Cop” counter-conference to COP10 the World Health Organization’s Conference of the Parties to...

(Day 4) Good Cop / Bad Cop | RegWatch (Live)

Day 4 of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Good Cop / Bad Cop” counter-conference to COP10 the World Health Organization’s Conference of the Parties to...

(Day 3) Good Cop / Bad Cop | RegWatch (Live)

Day 3 of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Good Cop / Bad Cop” counter-conference to COP10 the World Health Organization’s Conference of the Parties to...

(DAY 2) GOOD COP / BAD COP | RegWatch (Live)

Day 2 of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Good Cop / Bad Cop” counter-conference to COP10 the World Health Organization’s Conference of the Parties to...

(DAY 1) GOOD COP / BAD COP | RegWatch (Live)

Day 1 of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s “Good Cop / Bad Cop” counter-conference to COP10 the World Health Organization’s Conference of the Parties to...

Will Not Stop | Tobacco Control Unlikely to Validate Nicotine Vaping...

Despite a steady drumbeat of scientific studies showing nicotine vapes help people switch off smoking, including those with no intention to quit. Many within...

Blistering Decision | Fifth Circuit Court Rebukes FDA’s PMTA Process |...

A U.S. federal appeals court issues a scathing rebuke of FDA’s authorization process for flavored nicotine vaping products, reversing marketing denial orders for two...

2023 U.S. VAPING COVERAGE - PLAYLIST

Control & Crisis | Relentless Pursuit of New Forms of Harm...

For many years, the primary goal of tobacco control policy was to achieve what public health called the "tobacco endgame," a goal that tobacco...

Bad Cop | Global Tobacco Control Conference in Disarray | RegWatch...

Many critics often accuse the World Health Organization of maintaining an 'obsessive and paranoid secrecy' regarding COP, its Conference of the Parties to the...

Reverse Course | Youth Vaping Rates Hit Historic Low | RegWatch

What will the U.S. FDA do now? With the release of the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey, it’s now not only certain the so-called...

Unintended Consequences | Perils of Flavor Bans & Vape Taxes |...

When using a nicotine vape to quit smoking or to stay quit, flavors are essential. They provide endless opportunities to tailor the vaping experience...

Proven Correct | Largest U.S. Study Shows E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit...

It's the largest study of its kind in the United States, which shows e-cigarettes are effective in helping smokers to quit—just don't call it...

Useful Idiots | Misguided Assumptions Leave Vapers Ignored | RegWatch

Reporting from the Global Forum on Nicotine 2023 in Warsaw, Poland, RegWatch takes a deep dive into the machinations of tobacco control and its...

Grave Silence | Pressuring FDA to Ignore ‘Relative Risk’ | RegWatch

For nearly a decade, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration policy regarding the ‘relative risk’ of nicotine vaping products skewed towards moratorium when communicating...

Bad To Worse | Australia Careens Towards Prohibition | RegWatch

As the decline in adult smoking rates stalls, public health officials in Australia continue to push prohibition as the only solution to stem youth...

Natural Fit | BAT Talks Switching Smokers to Vapes | RegWatch

It's the number one vape brand by market share globally and the first to receive marketing approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Vital Warning | WHO Is Coming for Your Vapes at COP10...

Make no mistake, the minions of global public health are coming for your vapes. This November, several thousand unaccountable bureaucrats will meet for COP10,...

Greatest Threat | Orchestrated Campaign Tying Fentanyl to Nicotine Vapes |...

It’s the greatest threat to confront vaping, and likely you may have missed it. Over the past 18 months, a dangerous misinformation campaign has...

Grand Theft Vaping | FDA’s Struggle to Regulate in An Age...

While the FDA didn’t necessarily create the moral panic over teen vaping, the agency appears to have stoked the fire, doing very little to...

Lost Argument | Is Recreational Nicotine the Answer to FDA Quagmire?...

When tobacco control’s utopian dream of a nicotine-free society finally fades, what should its replacement be? How about a community brimming with tolerance for...

Tide Turning | U.S. Courts Wake Up To “Unlawful” FDA Regulation...

Could the U.S. vaping industry be on the verge of a breakthrough in its legal battle with the FDA? The prospects are tantalizing. A...

Cross-Examination | FDA Grilled Over Destructive Vaping Regulations | RegWatch

FDA’s single-minded focus on protecting youth from nicotine vaping products over the well-being of adult smokers is finally undergoing severe scrutiny. Recently a panel...

Will It Work? | UK’s Free Vape Scheme, It’s Impact at...

The UK’s recently announced “Swap to Stop” program, which provides free vaping starter kits to one million current smokers, is being hailed a massive...

Upside Down | Tennessee Vape Vendors Push Back on Big tobacco...

No state organization has had more success fending off anti-vaping legislation than the Tennessee Smoke Free Association. Led for years by founder and recently...

Big Threat | COP10 Bureaucrats to Decide Future of Vaping |...

A reckoning awaits nicotine vapers worldwide this November when several thousand unaccountable bureaucrats meet for COP10, the 10th session of the Conference of the...

Pushing Panic | Public Health Stokes Fear Over Vaping | RegWatch

Hysteria over vaping is not a by-product of public health’s war on vaping; it’s the intended result. Public health seeks to generate fear and...

Unified Stance | Vape Groups Align for Fight to Save Vaping...

Unity. It’s the long sought-for desire of many within vaping advocacy. No more backbiting and griping between groups over strategy and tactics in the...

All In (Part 2) | Is Big Tobacco A Threat to...

Is big tobacco a threat to the nicotine vaping industry? This is an old and touchy question for many vaping advocates. Most assume that at some...

Breakdown | Assessing the War on Vaping | RegWatch

Could the war on vaping in the U.S. finally take a turn in favor of tobacco harm reduction? It’s a legitimate question even though...

Ill-Informed | Unpacking the Timcast Vaping Debacle | RegWatch

Earlier this week, fans of Tim Pool and his live YouTube show Timcast IRL may have been shocked when a conversation about obesity and...

Vaping Is Worse Than Smoking | Says Tayler Hansen on Timcast...

Last night on @Timcast @TaylerUSA argued that #vaping is worse than smoking. Hear CDC, FDA, and Bloomberg lies, including fake lung disease #EVALI in...

2022 U.S. VAPING COVERAGE - PLAYLIST

Struggle To Function | FDA Tobacco Program Panned by Expert Panel...

On Monday, the Reagan-Udall Foundation released its report evaluating the FDA’s tobacco program, and its findings are remarkable, if not shocking. The expert panel...

Hijacked | FDA Approval Process in Shambles | RegWatch

It’s blatant, and some think shameful, the degree to which political interference and anti-vaping ideology have hijacked the FDA’s approval process for nicotine vaping...

Harmful & Dangerous | YouTube Forces Label on Vape Content Creators...

Content creators on YouTube are being forced into a terrible choice either self-mark pro-vaping content as “harmful & dangerous” or face a litany of...

High Certainty | Nicotine Vapes More Effective to Help Smokers Quit...

Are e-cigarettes effective in helping smokers to quit? It’s one of the most hotly contested questions in the battle over vaping, but an answer...

Unhinged | Public Health’s Manufactured Crisis Over Vaping | RegWatch

Public health’s insufferable war on vaping continues its path of destruction for U.S. consumers of nicotine vaping products. Fueled by the moral panic over...

Ground Zero | U.S. War on Vaping Mars Global Debate |...

The American public health establishment continues its war on vaping while the rest of the world suffers an onslaught of misinformation about potential health...

Hot Mess | Clive Bates on FDA, EVALI & Youth Vaping...

The War on Vaping continues unabated, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control states in a group call with anti-vaping lobbyists that the teen...

Wreaking Havoc | FDA Causes Great Damage with Its War on...

Is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration intentionally trying to wreck the U.S. nicotine vaping industry? It's a fair question to ask, considering every...

HARD TO SWALLOW | E-Cig Policy Compromises That Could Save Lives...

Hard compromises that no one will like is how eminent tobacco control scholar Dr. Kenneth Warner describes some of the recently released recommendations in...

Big Philanthropy | Professional ‘Givers’ Quest to Destroy Vaping | RegWatch

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,...

Off-Ramp | VTA Argues for Menthol Cig Ban, Plus FDA Roundup...

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...

Don’t Do Stupid | Message to FDA from Tobacco Expert |...

Tobacco control expert David Sweanor says he remains “hopeful” for the future of nicotine vaping in the United States. But it all depends on...

Driven By Snobbery | Prohibitionists’ War on Vaping | RegWatch

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...

Calculating Crisis | Truth Behind Teen Vaping & Tobacco Mortality Data...

The research flow of “exaggerated” and “distorted” information about safer nicotine products is “not going to end any time soon,” says Dr. Brad Rodu,...

Juul Ban | Consumer Impact & Industry Future | RegWatch

Since nicotine vapes first hit the market in 2007, the United States has been the lead driver of innovation and consumer adoption of these...

Clear Evidence | Nicotine Vapes Help Smokers to Quit | RegWatch

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...

Tempting Progress | U.S. Vaping Industry Nurtures Wins & Ponders Losses...

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...

Grand Scheme | NJOY Approved & Menthol Cigs Cancelled | RegWatch

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...

Pretty Brutal | State of U.S. Vaping 2022 | RegWatch

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,...

Prison Time? | War on Vaping Goes Criminal | RegWatch

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...

New Powers | FDA Gains Authority Over Synthetic Nicotine | RegWatch...

Congress granted FDA the authority to regulate synthetic nicotine in a crass attempt to ameliorate the moral panic over teen vaping. A problem that...

Schism | Battle Over Vaping Within Public Health | RegWatch

As we’ve reported endlessly over the past years, there appears to be a schism within public health between those who believe safer nicotine products...

“Surprise Switcheroo” | Industry Legal Challenge to FDA Denial Orders |...

The fight to save vaping in the United States appeared almost over when FDA issued Marketing Denial Orders to over 300 vaping product manufacturers,...

Strict Reading | Could China’s E-Cig Regs Upend Global Open System...

Late last year, China amended its laws, so that vaping product manufacturers are now subject to strict regulation by the Chinese government, under the...

Hard Truths | Arguments Vapers Should Stop Using In 2022 |...

It’s 2022, and the new year brings fresh hope to vapers that a win in the war on vaping could be had this year....