{"id":2184,"date":"2007-06-22T04:03:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T04:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2007-06-22T04:03:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T04:03:28","slug":"2007-6-22-egypt-bans-smoking-partially-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2184","title":{"rendered":"Egypt bans smoking (partially)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2007\/06\/clopes.jpg\" height=\"270\" width=\"160\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Clopes\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allheadlinenews.com\/articles\/7007715044\">Egypt Passes National Anti-Smoking Law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Smoking will now be prohibited in health and educational organizations, youth centers, legislative associations and all governmental authorities and clubs. A fine between 1,000 EGP ($175 USD) and 50,000 EGP ($9,000 USD) was also added to the new law for violations of the new tobacco law.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Health Committee, Egyptians smoke roughly 19 million cigarettes each year, spending around 3 billion EGP ($520 million USD). It added that smokers in the country increase by six to nine percent every year as compared to only one percent in the West.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah right &#8212; civil servants and MPs are going to stop smoking in public buildings. I&#8217;d like to see how this will be inforced, particularly with such high fines.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/2007\/06\/clopes.jpg\" height=\"270\" width=\"160\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" alt=\"Clopes\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allheadlinenews.com\/articles\/7007715044\">Egypt Passes National Anti-Smoking Law<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Smoking will now be prohibited in health and educational organizations, youth centers, legislative associations and all governmental authorities and clubs. A fine between 1,000 EGP ($175 USD) and 50,000 EGP ($9,000 USD) was also added to the new law for violations of the new tobacco law.<br \/>\nAccording to a report by the Health Committee, Egyptians smoke roughly 19 million cigarettes each year, spending around 3 billion EGP ($520 million USD). It added that smokers in the country increase by six to nine percent every year as compared to only one percent in the West.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah right &#8212; civil servants and MPs are going to stop smoking in public buildings. I&#8217;d like to see how this will be inforced, particularly with such high fines.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}