{"id":74994,"date":"2025-11-01T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/01\/maldives-becomes-the-only-country-with-generational-smoking-ban"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:47:11","slug":"maldives-becomes-the-only-country-with-generational-smoking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74994","title":{"rendered":"Maldives becomes the only country with generational smoking ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Ocean archipelago bans anyone born after 1 January 2007 from buying or using tobacco in order to \u2018promote a tobacco-free generation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Maldives began implementing a smoking ban on anyone born after January 2007, becoming the only country with a generational prohibition on tobacco, according to its health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The move, which was initiated by the president, Mohamed Muizzu, earlier this year and came into effect on 1 November, will \u201cprotect public health and promote a tobacco-free generation\u201d, the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/01\/maldives-becomes-the-only-country-with-generational-smoking-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Ocean archipelago bans anyone born after 1 January 2007 from buying or using tobacco in order to \u2018promote a tobacco-free generation\u2019The Maldives began implementing a smoking ban on anyone born after January 2007, becoming the only country with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1091,771,3434],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maldives","category-smoking","category-tobacco-industry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74995,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74994\/revisions\/74995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}