{"id":1808,"date":"2008-12-16T19:57:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T19:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2008-12-16T19:57:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T19:57:21","slug":"syrian-government-to-ban-smoking-in-public-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/syrian-government-to-ban-smoking-in-public-places\/","title":{"rendered":"SYRIAN GOVERNMENT TO BAN SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Alex,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Damascus (dpa) – The Syrian government announced on Tuesday that it will adopt an anti-smoking law “to protect people from the negative consequences of smoking on health, economy and environment”.<\/p>\n

The law prevents smoking in public places and prohibits advertising of all tobacco products, reported the Syrian official news agency SANA.<\/p>\n

Local statistics indicated that smokers represented 15 per cent of the population, or three million Syrians, with an average of one cigarette pack smoked a day.<\/p>\n

Syrian smokers spend about 26 billion Syrian pounds (about 562 million dollars), on smoking, and each smoker spends around 8 per cent of yearly income on the habit.<\/p>\n

\"Will<\/a>

Will the government ban include a ban on Argeeleh smoking?<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Decision<\/a>

Decision will probably be quite unpopular with smokers.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources:<\/p>\n

Charles Fred’s photostream<\/a><\/p>\n

Pzambrano’s photostream<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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