{"id":21573,"date":"2020-05-28T14:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=21573"},"modified":"2020-05-28T14:48:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:48:26","slug":"vaping-news-south-africa-tobacco-vape-ban-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/21573","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: SOUTH AFRICA [Tobacco &amp; Vape Ban Protests]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"aml7h-0-0\">&#8220;South African smokers say they\u2019ve waited to exhale long enough and are threatening civil disobedience if they\u2019re not allowed to buy cigarettes legally. For the duration of the coronavirus lockdown, government regulations have banned the sale of cigarettes, tobacco products, and e-cigarette liquids. \u201cProtest March Against the Tobacco Ban\u201d, wants supporters to march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, as well as to Parliament in Cape Town. With about 5\u2009000 group members, and nearly 8\u2009000 people interested in attending the march, organisers say they have popular support behind their cause to fight for their personal liberty. Duncan Napier says he founded the protest group after becoming despondent. <span style=\"color: #ff9900\">The owner of a waterproofing company doesn\u2019t smoke cigarettes. He vapes from an e-cigarette. \u201cTwisp and e-cigarettes are not tobacco products. It\u2019s not a leaf; it\u2019s not grown. It has nicotine, yes, but it\u2019s not smoke, it\u2019s a vapour,\u201d<\/span> he stresses.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/coronavirus-essentials\/2020-05-28-smokers-fight-to-light-up-moves-online-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smokers\u2019 fight to light up moves online<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20SOUTH%20AFRICA%20%5BTobacco%20%26amp%3B%20Vape%20Ban%20Protests%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;South African smokers say they\u2019ve waited to exhale long enough and are threatening civil disobedience if they\u2019re not allowed to buy cigarettes legally. For the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21573","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=21573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21574,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21573\/revisions\/21574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}