Smoke Atlas: Smoking and Vaping Rules Across Canada
Smoke Atlas is a reference to Canadian tobacco, vaping and smoke-free rules, organized by province and city and built from official sources. It is for people who want to know where they can smoke or vape, what cigarettes cost and how to get free help quitting, and for tenants, parents, travellers and writers who need a rule they can cite.
Start with what you need
Can I smoke here?
Pick a province and a place, such as a patio, a car or an apartment balcony, and see what the rule says.
Cigarette prices by province
What a pack or a carton costs where you live, and how much of that is tax.
Free help to quit
The quit line, text option and program for your province, and what the official pages say is covered.
Build a 30-day quit plan
A dated plan with your triggers, the people who will back you up and what you save. It stays in your browser.
Vaping laws
Minimum age, nicotine limits, flavours and where vaping is banned.
Smoke from a neighbour
Your options as a tenant or an owner, and where to complain.
Tools people use most
- The cost of smoking calculator turns your own pack price into a weekly, yearly and ten-year total.
- The quit-smoking savings calculator shows what you would keep once you stop.
- The tobacco allowance checker tells you what you can bring into Canada duty-free.
- The cigarette tax breakdown splits a price into federal tax, provincial tax and the rest.
- The lung screening checker lines up the criteria that provincial programs publish.
- The city bylaws database lets you search rules for parks, patios and doorways.
Find a topic
- City and provincial rules: the bylaw pages cover individual cities, including Halifax and Regina, and the provincial and territorial hubs collect the rules, taxes and quit help for each province. The rules database is searchable.
- Smoking laws and places: smoking laws, workplace rules, smoking in cars, fines and waterpipe bylaws.
- Prices and taxes: prices and taxes, tax rates by province and why Quebec cigarettes cost less.
- Vaping: the legal vaping age, flavour bans, how to quit vaping and whether vaping causes popcorn lung.
- Quitting: free help by province, cytisine in Canada, quit apps and text messages and how many tries it takes to quit.
- Health: what smoking does to the lungs, smoking and heart disease and smoking and blocked leg arteries.
- Cannabis and travel: cannabis laws by province and the rules for visitors to Canada.
- Data and tools: the tools page lists every calculator and checker, and the data page explains the downloads.
What changed lately
Rules change more often than people expect. The law changes page lists new federal and provincial rules with their dates, newest first, and links to the official notice and to the guides we updated.
How we work
Every statement about a law, a rate or an age is tied to an official page: the statute itself, a ministry or Health Canada. Facts are kept in a registry with the source address and the date we read it. If we could not confirm something on an official page, the guide says it is reported or leaves the number out.
Each guide shows when we last reviewed it and when the next review is due. The methodology page explains how facts are checked, and the editorial policy explains how corrections are handled. You can also read about the site on the about page. If you find something out of date, use report an error and include the page address.
Frequently asked questions
Who writes the pages on Smoke Atlas?
Smoke Atlas is an independent Canadian reference site. Each page is written from official sources, such as statutes, ministries, the Canada Revenue Agency and Health Canada, and lists those sources at the bottom. Facts we could not confirm on an official page are worded as reported or left out.
How often are the pages checked?
Every guide shows the date it was last reviewed and the month when the next review is due. Prices and taxes are reviewed more often than general explainers.
Does the site give medical or legal advice?
No. It explains rules and public health information in general terms. For your own health, talk to a doctor, nurse or pharmacist, and confirm any rule in the official source linked on the page.
How do I report a mistake on a page?
Use the report-an-error page and include the page address and the official source you checked. We compare it with the cited source and correct the page if it is out of date.
Is there a free phone line for quitting smoking?
Health Canada lists a toll-free number, 1-866-366-3667, for talking to a quit coach. Many provinces also run their own free line, shown on our quit help pages.