Hi
SuziesMom. Hope you & your husband will have a fun trip.
I'm certainly no expert on Quebec, having only been there twice in my life. But I'm certain there are no vaping bans in any
public places in Canada. It would be very newsworthy if there were. No-smoking laws literally have zero effect on vaping, because vaping is
not smoking. There's no tobacco, no combustion, and no smoke whatsoever. There is no law anywhere in Canada that prohibits vaping.
But bear in mind that many places we think of as public are
not truly public: a Timmies, a shopping mall, a bar, etc. A plane. These are privately owned places that are made open to the public, provisionally. So it's perfectly legal for some guy to walk around downtown without a shirt on. But if he walks into a fancy restaurant that way, they're within their rights to tell him to get outta there.
Your best bet is to exercise the better part of valour. If you're indoors, but not in a public place...don't vape unless you really need to, & exercise some level of discretion if you do. You can often get a feel for a place beforehand...whether they'll be cool or not. Just turn on your vape-dar.
If someone objects...you can explain what it is & if need be, stop. No one can ask for more than that. I don't think you'll have a problem though. Most places & people are pretty cool. Several months ago in February, I vaped openly in Pearson Airport for at least two hours, almost three...and not one person even gave me a funny look, let alone asked me what I was doing.
Fortunately I no longer get those super-intense nic-fits we all remember from back when, when we absolutely
needed a cig that very minute or else. As a vaper, I'll always love & enjoy nic. But nowadays I can go hours without a vape, without it bothering me. Odds are the same is true for you...and if it isn't, odds are that no one will give you grief over your vaping. And if they do, odds are that you'll be able to step out somewhere to vape.
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As to nicotine & Schedule F exemptions...you're right that exemption
(a) exempts nicotine
"in natural substances." This is what allows tobacco - a natural substance - to be exempt.
But while PG & VG are organic products that are
derived from natural substances...they are not natural substances in and of themselves. The nicotine that we vape
is natural nicotine, in that it's
extracted from tobacco. But PG w/nic, or VG w/nic, are not naturally-occurring forms. So exemption (a) does not exempt any e-liquid w/nic.
Fortunately, exemption
(d) exempts nicotine
"in a form to be administered orally by means of an inhalation device delivering 4 mg or less of nicotine per dosage unit." This exemption
does cover the e-liquids w/nic that we vape with our e-cigs.
If you take a drag on your e-cig, you receive
a dose of nicotine. Take two drags, you'll receive
two doses, and so forth. That's a basic, measurable fact. Not even HC is arguing that. And as we all know...no one who vapes is getting anywhere
near 4mg of nic from a drag, i.e.
"dosage unit." It's physically impossible to get 4mg of nic from one vapourized drag of any of the juices we're vaping.
This exemption also covers a bottle of e-liquid, since the bottle contains numerous doses, and the
intended use of the liquid
is in compliance with the exemption. Intended use clearly counts for something, otherwise virtually nothing would be sold. Coffe, Tylenol, water - you name it - they all have an intended use, and outside of the intended use they could all be lethal.
Meanwhile, plain PG or plain VG
without nicotine are completely unrestricted by any of this stuff.
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Anyway...have a fun trip, and happy vaping!
