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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