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Armageddon for the U.S. vaping industry is fast approaching, and all hopes for a reprieve from the Trump administration are all but dashed.
What if anything is happening behind the scenes to save the industry? What will become of the 150,000 jobs, the 11,000 small businesses, the thousands of manufactures, and the millions of vapers when the FDA’s PMTA deadline passes on September 9th?
Joining us today on RegWatch is Paul Blair, a policy strategist for the conservative-based advocacy group Americans for Tax Reform and vocal supporter of vaping as a tool for harm reduction.

Are anti-vaping forces sentencing hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people to a painful, premature death by smoking? Find out!

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Live Streamed: August 19, 2020

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THE SMOKER’S SHOW SEASON FINALE – S02E23 – MISINFORMATION AND OUTRIGHT LIES

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• Discuss COVID, vaping, the media, coordinated attacks against vaping, misinformation & outright lies
• Recap the year’s highlights
• Do some season finale giveaways
• Take your calls and questions

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• Association of the US Outbreak of Vaping-Associated Lung Injury With Perceived Harm of e-Cigarettes Compared With Cigarettes
• Vaping linked to COVID-19 risk in teens and young adults
• Association Between Youth Smoking, Electronic Cigarette Use, and Coronavirus Disease 2019
• FDA Uses Drug War-Style Ads to Shame Teenage Vapers
• Vaping Youth and Covid-19 and Science by Press Release
• An inverse relationship between smoking and COVID-19
• Anti-Vaping Forces Again Leverage COVID to Seek Prohibition
• Vaping Versus Tobacco: The Truth You Need To Know
• Tennessee Voices, Episode 79: Dimitris Agrafiotis, Tennessee Smoke Free Association
• Stanford study: Teens who vape are at a higher risk for COVID-19

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This segment of What’s Ahead tackles the mortally misbegotten campaign against electronic cigarettes. The attacks are factually false. Contrary to the antivaping narrative, e-cigarettes are the best, least harmful way for smokers to give up tobacco. By discouraging smokers from switching to e-cigarettes, antivapers are consigning hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of people to painful, premature death. While a growing number of teenagers vape, they are not moving on to cigarettes. In fact, cigarette smoking among teens has plummeted.

Contrary to what happens in the U.S., Britain encourages smokers to switch to vaping.

We should do the same.

“This segment of What’s Ahead tackles the mortally misbegotten campaign against electronic cigarettes. The attacks are factually false. Contrary to the antivaping narrative, e-cigarettes are the best, least harmful way for smokers to give up tobacco. By discouraging smokers from switching to e-cigarettes, antivapers are consigning hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of people to painful, premature death. While a growing number of teenagers vape, they are not moving on to cigarettes. In fact, cigarette smoking among teens has plummeted. Contrary to what happens in the U.S., Britain encourages smokers to switch to vaping. We should do the same.”

VIDEO & ARTICLE LINK:

Vaping Versus Tobacco: The Truth You Need To Know

“There is no link between nicotine in e‐​cigarettes and E‐​cigarette of Vaping Product‐​Use Associated Lung Injury (EVALI). EVALI cases have been traced to vitamin E acetate, used as a solvent for THC in black market vaping products. Flavored vaping products are preferred by adults who switch from combustible tobacco smoking to vaping. Yet none of these facts prevented a federal ban on flavored vaping products from going into effect last February. Not satisfied with a ban on flavored products, vaping opponents are now trying to leverage fear of COVID-19 infection as a means of preventing many adults from choosing to engage in an activity they find pleasurable.”

ARTICLE LINK:

Leveraging the COVID Pandemic to Advance Vapophobia

“The clock is ticking for tobacco companies to file premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and other newly deemed tobacco products. Reynolds American Inc. submitted two PMTAs in mid-April, before the deadline was extended. The Winston-Salem, N.C.-based company is seeking marketing orders for its Vuse Vibe and Vuse Ciro vapor products, which would allow them to remain on the market after the PMTA deadline. The filings include multiple flavor variants for each brand style. Fontem US LLC submitted PMTAs in late April seeking authorization to continue marketing a range of its myblu electronic vaping products. Altria Group Inc. received word in early June that the FDA accepted and filed for substantive review (the second phase of the process) the company’s PMTAs for 35 on! products. To support these applications, Richmond, Va.-based Altria submitted more than 66,000 pages of documentation, including six primary studies. E-Alternative Solutions (EAS) also announced PMTA submissions for its Leap and Leap Go vapor products. The FDA accepted the filings in early July, moving the applications to the substantive review phase of the process. “The substantive review is where our months of hard work assembling more than 100,000 pages of evidence will pay off in supporting our proposition that the Leap and Leap Go products are appropriate for the protection of public health,” said Chris Howard, vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer at EAS. Juul Labs, which counts Altria as a stakeholder, filed its JUUL System. The application includes detailed scientific data from more than 110 studies totaling more than 125,000 pages evaluating the product’s impact on both current users of tobacco products and nonusers, including those who are underage, according to the San Francisco-based company. 511 Solutions LLC, owner of the PRISM e-liquid line and master distributor, is also seeking FDA approval by filing what it said is the first of many PMTAs for its nicotine-based e-liquid products.”

ARTICLE LINK:

Tobacco Cos. Line Up to File Vapor PMTAs as New Deadline Nears

“As an immediate response to the national panic, several states enacted temporary e-cigarette bans. In Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker forbade the sale or purchase of all vape products for four months starting in late September, making the Bay State one of the most restrictive of the bunch. It basically just banned everything with the word ‘vape’ in it and didn’t consider the consequences of pushing users to the illicit market where evidence was showing the dangerous products were coming from. After it was widely understood that the outbreak was not connected to store-bought nicotine fluids or devices, the Massachusetts Public Health Council lifted the ban in mid-December, while signing off on regulations that work as a de facto flavored vape ban. As of June 1, the new law similarly restricts all flavored tobacco, plus adds a new 75% excise tax on all nicotine vaping products. Regardless of whether there was evidence for the flavor ban or not, it was dishonest that EVALI illnesses were cited as the reason to pass a ban on flavored tobacco. The two things have nothing to do with each other. Public health policy should be evidence-based.”

ARTICLE LINK:

C’EST EVALI: HOW DID MASS GET A FLAVORED VAPE AND MENTHOL BAN ANYWAY?

Here’s the latest from Brent Stafford at Regulator Watch:

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Key clips from our episode SEISMIC SWITCH – Guest: David Sweanor, Ottawa lawyer, renowned tobacco-control policy expert

Hear how a tsunami of misinformation and the peddling of doubt about vaping, led to a comeback in cigarette smoking. Who’s to blame? Find out!

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Length: 41:45
Released: Aug 15, 2020
Org. Stream: Aug 13, 2020

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