The regulations go further by targeting those who provide space for such activity.
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This would make far more sense if they didn’t still allow smoking.
Like. What the actual fuck.
You allow the deadly deadly thing and come down hard on the safer alternative.
Anyway I was in Vietnam recently and vaping was still illegal when I was there but I had no issues vaping anywhere.
This can only be because of tobacco industry lobbying.