Sean Penn caught smoking in Canada

Ontario and Quebec passed new smoking laws earlier this summer, removing smoking from public areas. Well actor Sean Penn was caught smoking during a press conference at the Toronto Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto to promote his new film All The King's Men. The film was playing at the just completed Toronto International Film Festival.

There is a outcry among writers and politicians to have Penn arrested (I assume retroactively) for the offense.

Penn was not fined because an individual can only be fined if they choose to ignore the law after a warning. There was no indication he had been warned. In fact, the hotel will pay a fine in part because it didn't provide proper signage.