Halifax-area vaping aficionados are unfazed by new no-smoking signs popping up around the city with “no vaping” added.
“I don’t really care,” said Chris (who declined to provide his last name), manager of the Quinpool Road branch of King Vapor.
“It doesn't faze me one bit.”
Vaping is the inhaling of a mixture of chemicals and artifical flavours from a machine called a vapourizer, used by many to replace traditional cigarettes. Vapers laud the fact that the practise leaves no burns or butts, as do cigarettes, and the smell is more likely to contain cinnamon, cotton candy or even caramel cheesecake than the odour of a standard smoke.
He said the signs may help people new to vaping understand where they’re allowed to smoke, but experienced vapers already know the rules, which have defined vaping as being the same as smoking under the law.
But just as some cigarette smokers don’t obey the rules, he said some vapers will flout them as well.
“These signs don’t deter people anyway,” he said.
A better solution would be to rewrite the law so that vaping is differentiated from cigarette smoking, he said.
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