{"id":315113,"date":"2019-09-18T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315113"},"modified":"2019-09-18T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:55:24","slug":"government-approves-decision-to-ban-e-cigarettes-nirmala-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/government-approves-decision-to-ban-e-cigarettes-nirmala-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Government approves decision to ban e-cigarettes: Nirmala Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-315114 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sitharaman-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/sitharaman-1.jpg 408w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/sitharaman-1-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced that the Union Cabinet has approved the decision to ban e-cigarettes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cToday the Union Cabinet has approved the Promulgation of the prohibition of electronic cigarettes (production, manufacture, import, export, transport, sale, distribution, storage and advertisement) Ordinance, 2019,\u201d said Sitharaman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The minister made the announcement at a press conference after the Cabinet meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sitharaman said the Cabinet decided to ban e-cigarettes as they pose health risk to people, especially the youth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that produce aerosol by heating a solution containing nicotine, which is the addictive substance in combustible cigarettes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced that the Union Cabinet has approved the decision to ban e-cigarettes. \u201cToday the Union Cabinet has approved the Promulgation of the prohibition of electronic cigarettes (production, manufacture, import, export, transport, sale, distribution, storage and advertisement) Ordinance, 2019,\u201d said Sitharaman. The minister made the announcement at a press conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[11807,4753,4477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315117,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315113\/revisions\/315117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}