{"id":518,"date":"2008-10-02T07:51:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T07:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2008-10-02T07:51:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T07:51:22","slug":"india-bans-smoking-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/india-bans-smoking-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"India bans smoking in public &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has banned somking in public.\u00a0 This is a bold move.\u00a0 On the upside it will reduce deaths and illness from both passive and active smoking, will encourage healthier lifestyle and will also support a transition to a more enlightened social dynamic (as the &#8220;cowboy&#8221; image is depreciated).\u00a0 But it will not be easy to implement in such a chaotic and diverse culture.\u00a0 There may even be a tendency to abuse the new law.\u00a0 It is certainly a bold, pioneering step in teh right direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7645868.stm\"> \t\t\t\t\tIndian ban on smoking in public<\/a> by BBC<\/p>\n<p>Commentary <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7646333.stm\">Indians told to stub it out in public<\/a> by BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has banned somking in public.\u00a0 This is a bold move.\u00a0 On the upside it will reduce deaths and illness from both passive and active smoking, will encourage healthier lifestyle and will also support a transition to a more enlightened social dynamic (as the &#8220;cowboy&#8221; image is depreciated).\u00a0 But it will not be easy to &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/india-bans-smoking-in-public\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India bans smoking in public &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-8m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}