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Quebec tables bill targeting e-cigarettes, smoking on patios

Above watch: Quebec has tabled anti-tobacco legislation targeting e-cigarettes and tightening rules governing smoking in public. Caroline Plante has more.

MONTREAL — Quebec has tabled anti-tobacco legislation targeting e-cigarettes and tightening rules governing smoking in public.

If it becomes law, Bill 44 would see the increasingly popular e-cigarette subject to the same rules as other tobacco products.

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That means it will be forbidden to use e-cigarettes inside institutions and public buildings.

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The province is also moving to ban smoking on bar and restaurant patios and cracking down on smoking in vehicles where minors 16 and under are present.

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The bill was tabled by junior health minister Lucie Charlebois.

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