{"id":75713,"date":"2019-08-14T02:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=75713"},"modified":"2019-08-14T02:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:42:50","slug":"govt-gets-tough-on-sale-of-tobacco-products-to-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/08\/14\/govt-gets-tough-on-sale-of-tobacco-products-to-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt gets tough on sale of tobacco products to minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Aug 13:<\/strong> The state government has issued an order stating that &#8220;no person shall sell, offer for sale, or permit sale of cigarette or other tobacco products to any person who is under 18 years of age and in an area within a radius of 100 yards of any educational institution.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe government originally issued the order on 29 July (vide order No SEDN\/222\/2019\/1184) and circulated it to all deputy commissioners, DDSEs, the elementary education, secondary education and higher &amp; technical education directorates, and all officers<br \/>\nof the education department, including ISSE, for compliance as per the provisions of Section 6 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003.<br \/>\nIt said the union health &amp; family welfare ministry has issued guidelines for free educational institutions to ensure effective implementation of the COTPA&#8217;s section, and to protect the vulnerable population, especially children, from exposure to tobacco use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Aug 13: The state government has issued an order stating that &#8220;no person shall sell, offer for sale, or permit sale of cigarette or other tobacco products to any person who is under 18 years of age and in an area within a radius of 100 yards of any educational institution.&#8221; The government originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}