In many ways, e-cigarettes will be regulated the same way as traditional tobacco products, with bans on selling to people under 19, and bans on certain forms of in-store displays like super-walls.
Flavoured tobacco, including menthol cigarettes, will also be banned.
When the law comes fully into force on July 1, 2017, the changes to the law will also ban hookah bars in Newfoundland and Labrador, and limit the sale and smoking of non-tobacco hookah products.
A few of these measures will come into effect as soon as the bill becomes law — forbidding the sale of shisha and e-cigarettes to people under 19, and smoking e-cigarettes in cars where there’s somebody under 16 in the vehicle.
The bigger chunk of the law — forbidding the sale of flavoured tobacco, banning hookah bars, and bringing e-cigarette regulation in line with tobacco — comes into force on July 1 of next year, a move which is designed to give businesses time to clear inventory.
Ministers Sherry Gambin-Walsh and John Haggie held a news conference Monday to announce the changes.
Both ministers stressed the health reasons for the changes, and Gambin-Walsh said that all the regulations are in line with what other provinces are doing.
jmcleod@thetelegram.com
Resource : http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2016-06-06/article-4551008/Government-cracking-down-on-hookah-bars,-e-cigarettes/1
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