{"id":14955,"date":"2019-09-18T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T11:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/?p=14955"},"modified":"2019-09-18T17:18:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T11:48:05","slug":"indian-government-bans-e-cigarettes-production-and-sale-will-end-soon-nirmala-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/indian-government-bans-e-cigarettes-production-and-sale-will-end-soon-nirmala-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Government bans e-cigarettes, production and sale will end soon, Nirmala Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Cabinet has approved for banning e-cigarettes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nirmala_Sitharaman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister<\/a>. After the decision has been made, manufacturing, export, import, transport, storage, distribution, advertising and sale which is associated with the e-cigarettes have also been banned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nirmala Sitharaman, the Finance Minister said the crucial reason behind the stance is that vaping is becoming extremely popular among India\u2019s young population. Sitharaman said that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronic_cigarette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">e-cigarettes<\/a> are being promoted to get the massive population of the country to reduce their addiction to smoking. Nevertheless, the Indian government decided to ban the e-cigarettes for good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14959\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/e-cigarettes-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"e cigarettes\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<h3><strong>e-Cigarettes are getting banned from India<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The finance minister also said that a proportion of the smoking population is also getting into the habit of utilizing the e-cigarettes as it is cool. According to the reports, there are over 400 brands that are supplying e-cigarettes in the country. Sadly, none of the brands are manufactured in India. Sitharaman said that e-cigarettes come with more than 150 flavors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sitharaman also headed a GoM, Group of Ministers regarding the persisting issue. Later the cabinet decided to put a complete ban on e-cigarettes as well as products that provide a health risk towards people, most importantly the young population from the country. In addition to this, the draft ordinance for supporting the storage of the e-cigarettes are going to punished by \u20b950,000 or imprisonment for up to six months or both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the recent announcement by Nirmala Sitharaman, the stocks of cigarettes in the country skyrocketed. According to sources, the stock market of ITC rose more than 1.5%. Stocks of Godfrey Phillips has jumped up to eight percent.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet has approved for banning e-cigarettes, according to Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister. After the decision has been made, manufacturing, export, import, transport, storage, distribution, advertising and sale which is associated with the e-cigarettes have also been banned. Nirmala Sitharaman, the Finance Minister said the crucial reason behind the stance is that vaping is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracleglobe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}