{"id":352,"date":"2012-08-20T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/?p=352"},"modified":"2012-08-20T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T12:07:20","slug":"does-tobacco-deserve-trade-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2012\/08\/20\/does-tobacco-deserve-trade-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Does tobacco deserve trade protection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of trade agreements by tobacco companies to undermine tobacco control was a key topic at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Singapore in March this year, and trade agreements are one of the weapons the tobacco industry is counting on to fight plain packaging. To\u00a0ensure public health is given higher\u00a0priority than free trade,\u00a0an Austrian tobacco control advocate has started an online petition aimed at the World Trade Organization to demand that tobacco be excluded from free trade agreements. Read more and sign the petition\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avaaz.org\/en\/petition\/exclude_tobacco_nicotine_from_free_trade_agreements\">here<\/a>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of trade agreements by tobacco companies to undermine tobacco control was a key topic at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Singapore in March this year, and trade agreements are one of the weapons the tobacco industry is counting on to fight plain packaging. To\u00a0ensure public health is given higher\u00a0priority than [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2012\/08\/20\/does-tobacco-deserve-trade-protection\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1369,2138,1715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-legislation-and-policy","category-marketingadvertising"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}