Travel and Vaping Panama

[rurwin]

After five months stinky-free, I'm going to be in Panama for two weeks.

1. Is the ban still in place?
2. Is it a ban on importation for sale, or is it a ban on any importation?

ARTICULO SEGUNDO: Facultar a la Autoridad Nacional de Aduanas, a adoptar las disposiciones aplicables a no
permitir la entrada al país y correspondiente decomiso de los CIGARRILLOS ELECTRONICOS Y SIMILARES, lo cual
restringirá la comercialización de los productos de tabacos y sus derivados a los agentes de la cadena de comercialización
de éstos productos.

Which Google Translate turns into

ARTICLE TWO: Empower the National Customs Authority, to adopt the provisions applicable to non-
allow entry to the country and confiscate the corresponding AND SIMILAR ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES, which
restrict the marketing of tobacco products and their derivatives agents marketing chain
of these products

Which is a little too mangled to make sense of.
3. What is the penalty if I do take it for personal use and the officer on the desk decides that isn't what it means? Do I risk jail, or will he just confiscate it?

 

[rurwin]

Just to complete the thread.

I didn't have any problems vaping. Smoking seems to be outside only, and the only people I ever saw smoking were tourists and the owner of the hotel.