SFATA

Pamela Gorman, executive director, the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association (SFATA), speaks with Kari Hess, vape shop owner and co-president of the NorCal chapter, about state and federal advocacy, membership, as well as best practices on how businesses can be successful in a new post-deeming regulatory environment.

The Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association's Board President, Cap O’Rourke, speaks with SFATA's new Executive Director, Pamela Gorman. In this podcast, Pamela discusses her new role, as well as her extensive career in the vaping industry, including her experience as an elected official. Plus lots more!

Schell Hammel, Board Vice President of the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association speaks with Sally Satel, M.D., a practicing psychiatrist specializing in addiction and lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine, who examines mental health policy as well as political trends in medicine. Sally also is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a non-partisan public policy research institute. She has written widely on vaping, questioning the FDA, arguing for how vapor products can save lives, and advocating for moving the predicate date, among other topics Topics addressed include a new study by Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that the majority of U.S. physicians are “frequently discussing electronic cigarettes in a clinical context," a recent Stanford study, harm reduction, and more...

U.S. Representative Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) speaks with SFATA's Cap O'Rourke on H.R. 2058, the Cole-Bishop amendment, small business, vapor advocacy, and much more...

In this episode of Clearing the Haze, Dr. Thomas Glynn, former director of cancer science and trends for the American Cancer Society, discusses potential agrees of agreement between the vaping industry and its opponents, as well as ethics in research, FDA regulations, Royal College of Physicians, and much more.

SFATA president and executive director, Cynthia Cabrera, speaks with U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, who recently sent a letter to the FDA's Commissioner Robert Califf raising concerns about the impact the final deeming regulations will have on the small businesses that make up the majority of the vapor industry.

Cynthia Cabrera of the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association (SFATA) speaks with tobacco-control expert David Sweanor, J.D., on the ethics and morality of misinformation campaigns of public health organizations on vaping. David has spent more than three decades trying to rid the world of cigarettes, and played an integral role in Canada’s tobacco-related policies. He has worked with the World Health Organization, World Bank, Pan American Health Organization, International Union Against Cancer, and numerous governments and foundations. David is also an Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa and at the Centre for Health Law, Policy & Ethics. He is also a Honorary (Consultant) Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham.