{"id":102059,"date":"2013-12-30T20:53:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/china-tells-communist-party-officials-to-stop-smoking-in-public-2\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T20:53:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:53:15","slug":"china-tells-communist-party-officials-to-stop-smoking-in-public-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/china-tells-communist-party-officials-to-stop-smoking-in-public-2\/","title":{"rendered":"China tells Communist Party officials to stop smoking in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Megha Rajagopalan<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/12\/30\/22107216-china-tells-communist-party-officials-to-stop-smoking-in-public?lite\">Reuters<\/a><br \/>December 30, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Communist Party officials must not smoke in public places or buy cigarettes using public funds, and should encourage their colleagues to quit smoking, a top Chinese government body said in a circular on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>China is the world&#8217;s largest tobacco consumer. Smoking is deeply entrenched in Chinese social life, particularly for men, and luxury cigarettes are frequently given as gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing pledged in 2008 to ban smoking in most public venues, including government offices, but enforcement has remained lax and no-smoking signs are frequently ignored.<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Monday, December 30, 2013  at  2:43 pm<\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p><!-- share and follow --><!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; this is where we need to show the related articles  <\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles_container\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;&gt; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/china-tells-communist-party-officials-to-stop-smoking-in-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"China tells Communist Party officials to stop smoking in public\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megha RajagopalanReutersDecember 30, 2013 Communist Party officials must not smoke in public places or buy cigarettes using public funds, and should encourage their colleagues to quit smoking, a top Chinese government body said in a circular on Sunday. China is the world&#8217;s largest tobacco consumer. Smoking is deeply entrenched in Chinese social life, particularly for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}