Fine for selling flavoured vape

A P.E.I. man was fined recently after his business sold flavoured vape product despite a provincial ban.

John David Wincey Jr. before Chief Judge Jeff Lantz in provincial court in Charlottetown where he pleaded guilty to one count of selling tobacco or an electronic smoking device that contains a flavouring agent.

Wincey appeared on behalf of Stogies Convenience.

The offence was a violation of the Tobacco and Electronic Smoking Device Sales and Access Act, which went into effect in March and banned flavoured vaping products.

Crown attorney Bridget Morriscey told the court the province sent a letter to businesses in January that said flavoured vaping products would be banned effective March 1.

Morriscey said an environmental officer went to Stogies Convenience on April 1 and asked to buy a flavoured vape product.

The court heard an employee sold the officer a vape pod that had honeydew and menthol flavours.

Lantz fined Wincey $250 for the offence.

Wincey isn’t the only one who has been fined in Charlottetown recently for selling banned vape product.

Another Charlottetown business was recently fined $500 for two violations of the act after it displayed banned product and later sold some to an environmental officer.

Wild Impulse Inc. and Grow Daddy Inc. also appeared in court recently for allegedly violating the act, but both pleaded not guilty and will go to trial.