New Alberta law banning e-cig use in all workplaces also bans making/drinking coffee/tea and cooking/eating many/most food

[Bill Godshall]

To ban e-cig use in workplaces and public places, Alberta bans the holding or otherwise controlling of a heated “tobacco-like product”, whose definition “composed in whole or in part of plants or plant products, or any extract of them” includes making and drinking coffee or tea, and cooking and eating grains, vegetables and fruits, which have been redefined as "smoking".
Alberta legislature passes new rules on smoking in cars, use of water pipes

tobacco REDUCTION ACT

3 Adds definitions.

(d) by adding the following after clause (i):
(i.1) “smoke a tobacco-like product” means to smoke, hold or
otherwise have control over a lit or heated tobacco-like
product;
(e) by adding the following after clause (j):
(j.1) “tobacco-like product” means, subject to the regulations,
a product, other than a tobacco product, composed in
whole or in part of
(i) plants or plant products, or any extract of them, or
(ii) other substances prescribed by regulation;

4 Section 3 is amended
(a) by striking out “smoke” and substituting “smoke a
tobacco product or tobacco-like product”;

6 Section 5 is amended
(a) in subsections (1) and (2) by striking out “smoke” and
substituting “smoke a tobacco product or tobacco-like
product”;
(b) in subsections (1)(b) and (2)(c) by striking out “smoking”
and substituting “smoking a tobacco product or
tobacco-like product”.

7 Section 6 is amended
(a) by striking out “smoking” and substituting “smoking a
tobacco product or tobacco-like product”;
(b) by striking out “smoke” and substituting “smoke a
tobacco product or tobacco-like product”.

8 Section 7 is amended
(a) by striking out “smoking” wherever it occurs and
substituting “smoking a tobacco product or tobacco-like
product”;

The amazing part about this new law is that nobody even knows this new law bans making/drinking coffee and cooking/eating any foods.

 

[Bill Godshall]

Here's an article on the new law in Alberta, but it doesn't even mention e-cigs (or the unintended ramifications of Bill 33)
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Albe...s+smoking+cars+water+pipes/9225467/story.html

I notified the reporter Keith Gerein about this, and hope he exposes it.

 

[Myrany]

hmmmm I guess all the restaurants have just shut down. Cooking and eating

I SO can't wait to pass this on to my relatives in Alberta.

 

[Dave_in_OK]

Makes me wonder if anyone writing these laws has a brain

 

[Sundodger]

Makes me wonder if anyone writing these laws has a brain

I think they have two brains. One is lost and the other is out looking for it.

Great find Bill.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

The way i read it they can fry meat using lard, boil it or use a gas grill and serve uncooked veggies. Can't use vegetable oil or a charcoal grill.

ETA:
If e-cigarettes are a tobacco product, charcoal and vegetable oil are plant matter.

 

[Bill Godshall]

Using gas grills also would be banned under the law, since all gas was extracted from plants that lived millions of years ago.

 

[AgentAnia]

Using gas grills also would be banned under the law, since all gas was extracted from plants that lived millions of years ago.

No internal-combustion machines, either, for the same reason. Back to horses and buggies. Giddyup!

 

[ciarlone]

WHat????? Is this a JOKE

 

[Dave_in_OK]

WHat????? Is this a JOKE

No! No one could make this up!

 

[Snapdragon]

Boiling meat in lard in a minivan full of kids while smoking on a water pipe is very common up here. Just ask any soccer mom. Just kidding. This is hitting pretty close to home.

 

[NorthOfAtlanta]

Using gas grills also would be banned under the law, since all gas was extracted from plants that lived millions of years ago.

Nah, I think this might be grandfathered in Bill.

 

[AgentAnia]

WHat????? Is this a JOKE

Not a joke, but I can guarantee this will be used by future law professors everywhere as a good (and good for a lotta laughs) example of what poorly written laws look like and the trouble they can get legislators into!