For decades, tobacco control lectured smokers to quit or die. But when smokers quit using safer nicotine, they were chastised and demonized for doing it the “wrong” way.
That contradiction now defines U.S. nicotine policy. In this episode, tobacco harm reduction advocate Skip Murray responds directly to comments from FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, whose rhetoric dismisses data, elevates anecdote, and recycles long-debunked myths about vaping.
As smoking declines and safer alternatives reshape behavior, tobacco control is digging in. The result is an endgame untethered from evidence, denying the reality of safer nicotine.
What happens when the FDA refuses to acknowledge what we already know?
Find out. Only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.
Released: February 20, 2026
Produced by: Brent Stafford
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