{"id":22188,"date":"2020-07-31T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=22188"},"modified":"2020-07-31T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:35:01","slug":"vaping-news-south-korea-smoking-rates-climbed-back-up-when-e-cigs-were-demonized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/22188","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: SOUTH KOREA [Smoking Rates Climbed Back Up When E-cigs Were Demonized]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"81gal-0-0\">Sales of cigarettes in South Korea rose 3.8 percent on-year in the first half of this year. Meanwhile, sales of heat-not-burn tobacco products fell 6.6 percent to 180 million in the first half. Sales of vaporizer-based liquid electronic cigarettes also plunged 80.3 percent to 1.2 million pods in the first half, as the government strongly advised people not to use liquid e-cigarettes, warning that such vaping products could cause serious lung illness or death.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>BILL TARLING &#8212;<\/strong> <em>The Gov&#8217;t had been advising against users switching to vaping by using the deceptive misinformation which was being spewed out by the U.S. CDC who were aware almost immediately that the EVALI health issues were due to illegal products, yet they still deceived the public into believing E-liquid Vapor Product e-cigs were also to blame even though they weren&#8217;t the cause.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20200731007200320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cigarette sales rise 3.8 pct in H1<\/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%20KOREA%20%5BSmoking%20Rates%20Climbed%20Back%20Up%20When%20E-cigs%20Were%20Demonized%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>Sales of cigarettes in South Korea rose 3.8 percent on-year in the first half of this year. Meanwhile, sales of heat-not-burn tobacco products fell 6.6&#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-22188","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\/22188","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=22188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22189,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22188\/revisions\/22189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}