Starting today, BC Ferries will no longer permit passengers to step out on the deck for a cigarette.

Smoking is banned on all BC Ferries vessels and in all terminals. The ban includes e-cigarettes and marijuana.

“It may be challenging for some customers and employees…but 85 per cent of British Columbians don’t smoke and those customers are asking us to go smoke-free,” said BC Ferries spokesperson, Deborah Marshall.

BC Ferries banned smoking inside vessels in the summer of 1990.

In 2016, the provincial government increased