a made in Calgary solution:' Report says e-cigarette bylaw is working
原始发布日期： 2016-01-31 发布者：李方字变大 字变小
'We’ve found a made in Calgary solution:' Report says e-cigarette bylaw is working
Mickey Roach uses an e-cigarette device in Calgary on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016. Jim Wells / Postmedia At the end of June, council passed one of the most stringent e-cigarette bylaws in Canada. The rules prohibit the electronic devices everywhere traditional cigarettes are already banned, but exempt so-called vape shops so customers can sample the pen-like devices, which heat liquids containing nicotine into vapour. A recent telephone survey of businesses located immediately adjacent to vape shops revealed few problems, according to a city report scheduled to go to committee this week. The survey found no adjacent businesses had concerns about the electronic devices being used inside vape shops, and just four businesses indicated concerns about e-cigarettes used outside the vape shops, including near entrances. Coun. Diane Colley-Urquhart, who proposed council investigate an e-cigarette crackdown in 2014, said the report shows the bylaw passed last year was appropriate. “We’ve found a made in Calgary solution,” she said. “We’ve struck the right balance where we’re treating e-cigarettes in public spaces and places just as we are with regular cigarettes and smoking, then we allowed these vape shops to allow their customers to test different products.” The report details surveys of vape shops and adjacent businesses and concludes the rules passed in the summer are working effectively and no further changes are needed for the time being. The survey of vape shop owners found most were aware of the new e-cigarette bylaw and most had a policy to prohibit minors from entering their shop, even though an age restriction on stores for e-cigarettes and e-liquids is not in the bylaw. “What I’m really, really pleased about is 83 per cent of the vape shops were very aware of the new smoking bylaw amendments and 100 per cent of them are training their staff to not let minors into their stores,” said Colley-Urquhart. The telephone survey also found that 75 per cent of vape shops in Calgary who responded said they provide customers the opportunity to sample e-cigarette products and all require staff to be over the age of 18. Bylaw officers who monitored local vape shops over a two week period found proper signage and didn’t find any minors inside the businesses, according to the report. AKlingbeil@calgaryherald.com (Calgary Herald) |