{"id":21514,"date":"2020-05-25T11:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=21514"},"modified":"2020-05-25T11:59:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:59:18","slug":"vaping-news-south-africa-vaping-isnt-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/21514","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: SOUTH AFRICA [Vaping Isn&#8217;t Smoking]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"2rpr7-0-0\">&#8220;The vaping industry is demanding to be allowed to sell its products online and for delivery during lockdown level3. They also want to be disassociated from the tobacco sector. Vapour Products Association of South Africa (VPASA) chief executive Asanda Gcoyi told The Star that the narrative that vapour products, cigarettes and tobacco products were the same was problematic. \u201cVaping is not smoking, those are two different things. Both vaping and cigarettes contain nicotine, but nicotine is not what kills people in smoking, people die because of the tar,\u201d she said. Gcoyi added that categorising them together caused serious problems, because of the global agenda of harm reduction.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/the-star\/news\/vaping-body-wants-to-be-disassociated-from-tobacco-sector-and-allowed-to-operate-online-during-level-3-48477268\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vaping body wants to be disassociated from tobacco sector and allowed to operate online during Level 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The vaping industry is demanding to be allowed to sell its products online and for delivery during lockdown level3. They also want to be disassociated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21515,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514\/revisions\/21515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}