MONTREAL - Fans of the electronic cigarette will be fined $ 50 $ if they are caught "vaping" on a bus or metro 2015, learned the newspaper "24 Hours".
Currently, there is no regulation surrounding the use of electronic cigarettes in the facilities of the Montreal Transit Corporation (STM).
However, the board plans to adopt a by-law by the end of the year that will prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes.
“The STM's board of directors will adopt a recommendation to ban 'vaping' in all of the Company's facilities by the end of the year,” confirmed a spokesperson for the STM. organization, Isabelle-Alice Tremblay.
Anyone caught in the act will be fined 50 $.
Once adopted, the regulation will be submitted to the city council, which will have to approve it. Thus, the ban will probably not be applicable until the first few months of 2015.
Prohibited by the AMT
For its part, the Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) has already claimed to have banned the use of electronic cigarettes in its trains, platforms and stations under the Tobacco Act.
“The national director of public health of Quebec invites the population to consider electronic cigarettes as tobacco products […] The AMT has chosen not to tolerate the use of electronic cigarettes on board its trains and on sites that 'it operates,' said AMT spokesperson Fanie St-Pierre by email.
It added that the AMT inspectors could give statements of offense against "vapers", but that this has never happened to date.
Source : journaldemontreal.com/
