{"id":7068,"date":"2019-05-31T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/?p=7068"},"modified":"2019-05-31T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T11:09:13","slug":"e-cigarette-banned-in-rajasthan-on-world-no-tobacco-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/e-cigarette-banned-in-rajasthan-on-world-no-tobacco-day\/","title":{"rendered":"E-cigarette banned in Rajasthan on world no-tobacco day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaipur: The Rajasthan government has banned production,\nstorage, distribution and retail sale of e-cigarettes on the world no tobacco\nday on Friday. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot said that the ban on e-cigarettes\nwas taken considering its il-effects on the health of the smoker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a taken a landmark decision towards encouraging\nyouths to quit tobacco on the world no-tobacco day,\u201d said Gehlot after the\ndecision to ban e-cigarettes was taken in a meeting held at the chief minister\u2019s\noffice in the state secreteriate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had promised before the assembly elections that we would\ntake concrete steps to help youths quit addictions. This is one of the\nsignificant decisions in this direction,\u201d Gehlot said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajasthan health minister Raghu Sharma said that youths who\nwant to quit smoking are being misled by advertisements that e-cigarettes help\nquit the addiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have decided to ban any type of advertisement promoting e-cigarettes,\u201d\nsaid Raghu Sharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister added that keeping in view the growing use of e-cigarettes\namong youths, the state government had set up a committee of doctors to look\ninto the ill-effects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe committee studies the findings made with regard to the\nuse of e-cigarettes and their effect on the health. It was found that e-cigarettes\nare actually very harmful. So we decided to ban it,\u201d said Sharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>e-cigarettes are advertised as an alternative tobacco\nproducts; however it contains harmful chemicals and toxins that have health\nrisks.&nbsp;The chemicals and toxins may cause serious health problems,\nincluding cancer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaipur: The Rajasthan government has banned production, storage, distribution and retail sale of e-cigarettes on the world no tobacco day on Friday. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot said that the ban on e-cigarettes was taken considering its il-effects on the health of the smoker. \u201cWe have a taken a landmark decision towards encouraging youths to quit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>E-cigarette banned in Rajasthan on world no-tobacco day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/e-cigarette-banned-in-rajasthan-on-world-no-tobacco-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"E-cigarette banned in Rajasthan on world no-tobacco day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jaipur: The Rajasthan government has banned production, storage, distribution and retail sale of e-cigarettes on the world no tobacco day on Friday. 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