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In addition to our original coverage, RegWatch curates top stories on issues and impacts arising from the regulation of economic, social and environmental activity in Canada and the U.S.

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The Need for a Smoking Cessation “Care Package”

Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the US. Cigarette smoking alone kills nearly a half million US residents each...

The Biggest Tobacco Harm Reduction Battles to Come in 2023

United States tobacco control did not have an easy 2022. So much turmoil has come and gone this past year that even the most...

California’s Vape Flavor Ban Begins With Confusion, Enforcement Threats

On December 21, California’s nicotine flavor ban finally went into effect, a little more than a month after voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 31. The law will...

While Australians were focused on the pandemic, the vaping industry was executing its own plan

It's been six decades since the landmark surgeon general's report that shed definitive light on the deadly nature of cigarettes. And while it would be...

Regulation of e-cigarettes may be pushing teens back to significantly more harmful traditional tobacco cigarettes, MSU Sociology research finds

MSU Sociology PhD student Sam Safford has published a research paper December 2022 that shows an unintended consequence of strict regulation of electronic cigarettes...