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City Council passed one of the most comprehensive e-cigarette bylaws in Canada on Monday evening, banning use of the devices everywhere traditional cigarettes are already prohibited.

The ban takes effect immediately.

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The bylaw has an exemption for e-cigarette retailers in enclosed locations that allows customers to test products in-store before buying. It goes farther than legislation already in place in Toronto, Ottawa and Edmonton, but is less strict than Vancouver and Red Deer.

“I think that the folks who own vaping stores had a fair point, which is that this is a very new technology and they really want to just show people how it works,” said Mayor Naheed Nenshi.

Nenshi says council has ordered a study that will end by February 2016 to determine if the exemption will stay in place.

“Council decided it was better to allow them to keep doing it and then take it away rather than take it away and then potentially give it back,” Nenshi said.