{"id":1080,"date":"2013-06-02T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T18:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2014-01-11T07:02:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T07:02:39","slug":"russia-doomed-by-smoking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Russia “doomed” by smoking ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Haven’t posted in a while. Have three interesting updates.<\/p>\n

The first is a smoking ban in all places — Russia — one of the heaviest smoking countries in the world.\u00a0 It’s not a particularly strict smoking ban — no smoking in hospitals, on public transit or in schools (nothing about restaurants or bars).<\/p>\n

Not very strict, but a big deal in a country where a whopping 55 percent of men smoke daily (compared to about 25 percent in most Western countries).<\/p>\n

Bans were also put in place by Russia on advertising and marketing of cigarettes. It affects this Soviet-era cartoon of a smoking wolf named Wolf the Hooligan,<\/a> which can only be shown at night now because the main character chain smokes.<\/p>\n