ENDGAME DELUSIONS | FDA Rejects Reality of Safer Nicotine | RegWatch

RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com · Feb 20, 2026 · 37m

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…