{"id":29984,"date":"2018-10-26T13:18:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29984"},"modified":"2018-10-26T13:18:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:48:51","slug":"centre-to-snuff-out-toxic-e-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-to-snuff-out-toxic-e-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre to snuff out \u2018toxic\u2019 e-cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/centre-to-snuff-out-toxic-e-cigarettes\/article23518979.ece\"><strong>Centre to snuff out \u2018toxic\u2019 e-cigarettes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre has informed the Delhi High Court that it is in the process of issuing guidelines to ban the manufacture, import, sale and any kind of trade in e-cigarettes, dubbing it a \u201cnew emerging threat\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>New addictive emerging threat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The flavouring agent in e-cigarettes was intended towards attracting the youth to a \u201cnew nicotine delivery product\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar marketing techniques as cigarettes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The glamorizing marketing techniques of ENDS as a less harmful product purely mimics the marketing techniques used by the cigarette industry for slim- or low-tar cigarettes and are youth-oriented<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A petition filed by anti-tobacco activist Seema Sehgal, through Bhuvanesh Sehgal, seeking a ban or regulating the sale and use of e-cigarettes<\/p>\n<p><strong>No law yet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are no specific guidelines to deal with e-cigarettes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre to snuff out \u2018toxic\u2019 e-cigarettes \u00a0What has happened? The Centre has informed the Delhi High Court that it is in the process of issuing guidelines to ban the manufacture, import, sale and any kind of trade in e-cigarettes, dubbing it a \u201cnew emerging threat\u201d New addictive emerging threat The flavouring agent in e-cigarettes was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/centre-to-snuff-out-toxic-e-cigarettes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centre to snuff out \u2018toxic\u2019 e-cigarettes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704896053},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}