{"id":15970,"date":"2015-01-15T07:25:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T07:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=15970"},"modified":"2015-01-15T07:25:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T07:25:48","slug":"pass-anti-tobacco-bill-heart-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/pass-anti-tobacco-bill-heart-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass anti- Tobacco bill &#8211; Heart experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Smoking-cigarettes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15971\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Smoking-cigarettes.jpg\" alt=\"Smoking cigarettes\" width=\"624\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Smoking-cigarettes.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Smoking-cigarettes-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Health experts are asking legislators to pass the Tobacco Control Bill 2014 into law when parliament resumes to protect the health of Ugandans.<\/p>\n<p>The bill that aims at regulating tobacco manufacture, sponsorships and protecting children from exposure to tobacco products is at committee stage waiting to be tabled before\u00a0\u00a0 parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sheila Ndyanabagi the officer in charge mental health at the ministry of health says the bill does not intend to phase out tobacco production in the country but rather regulating its consumption.<\/p>\n<p>The health experts\u2019 call comes at a time when the country\u2019s expenditure on treating non-communicable diseases like cancer and heart diseases which are all by tobacco consumption is growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health experts are asking legislators to pass the Tobacco Control Bill 2014 into law when parliament resumes to protect the health of Ugandans. The bill that aims at regulating tobacco manufacture, sponsorships and protecting children from exposure to tobacco products is at committee stage waiting to be tabled before\u00a0\u00a0 parliament. Dr. Sheila Ndyanabagi the officer in charge mental health at the ministry of health says the bill does not intend to phase out tobacco production in the country but rather regulating its consumption. The health experts\u2019 call comes at a time when the country\u2019s expenditure on treating non-communicable diseases like cancer and heart diseases which are all by tobacco consumption is growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}