{"id":86608,"date":"2015-08-01T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T04:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=86608"},"modified":"2015-08-01T12:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T04:24:37","slug":"expanding-no-smoking-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=86608","title":{"rendered":"Expanding no smoking zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAYING down laws and regulations to prohibit smoking in public places are easy enough. It can happen almost overnight and be implemented as soon as the law is gazetted, as will happen with the proposed expansion of no smoking zones recently announced by the health minister. And, to further discourage smoking, taxes on cigarettes are set to rise substantially reaching a minimum retail price of RM10 a packet by August next year. This will effectively cut deep into the disposable income of the smoker. All well and good to meet the intention of the World Health Organisations Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to which Malaysia is a signatory. The higher cost of cigarettes will most probably help reduce the habit, if not kick it out altogether.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the rest of the article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1OGfr80\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAYING down laws and regulations to prohibit smoking in public places are easy enough. It can happen almost overnight and be implemented as soon as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[79],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86609,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86608\/revisions\/86609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}