Sounds like the legislators who proposed this law should be jailed.......
It's all about control and some hanky panky going on behind closed doors to screw the smoker again. None of this passes the smell test.
And the U.S. will try to keep up with Canada, you watch.
These aren't legislators. They're municipal level politicians who like to think they can just command and it will appear. The legal profession may well have a different and more realistic slant on just what power a J.of P. has.
The Ontario Provincial Gov't has given a mandate to all County Health Boards to clamp down on smoking, while they in turn stay quietly at arms length and collect the taxes. We are currently going through public consultation in our District ,which really means we already know what's best for you but we think you're stupid enough that in the end you'll actually think you thought of it.. We have a Federal law that says anyone under 19 can't buy tobacco but any day you can find 14 year olds puffing merrily away on any street corner. They fine the seller, often a clerk in a convenience store who is working at minimum wage, for allowing the teenager to break the law. To go after the kid would be politically insane.and it might actually reduce smoking ..er... reduce taxes.
I smoked for 32 years. It's hard on you, it stinks and it's expensive and quitting was one of the hardest things I've ever done. But the Governments did everything to allow tobacco companies to hook us and as an adult no one has the right to tell you where ,when ,what, why or why not you can smoke. It's your choice, not theirs.