{"id":145664,"date":"2018-01-12T01:26:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145664"},"modified":"2018-01-12T01:26:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:26:45","slug":"tobacco-products-banned-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/12\/tobacco-products-banned-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco products banned in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_95187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95187\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/smoking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95187\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/smoking.png\" alt=\"The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) reminded overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) bound for Qatar to refrain from bringing tobacco products there. (Photo: Ida Myrvold\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"397\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/smoking.png 397w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/smoking-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) reminded overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) bound for Qatar to refrain from bringing tobacco products there. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idamyrvold\/8016084687\/\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/idamyrvold\/\">Ida Myrvold\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) reminded overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) bound for Qatar to refrain from bringing tobacco products there.<\/p>\n<p>This after the host country has banned all tobacco derivatives, equipment, and other materials in relation to tobacco usage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OFWs are advised to be wary of these prohibitions and should never attempt to carry any of these banned products when travelling to Qatar,&#8221; the POEA said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the list of banned tobacco products are chewing tobacco in any form; electronic cigarette, electronic shisha, and any product similar to it or made in any form of tobacco; swaika (substance made from tobacco products and that can be taken by absorption, chewing or inhalation); cigarette machines; and advertising, promotion, or sponsorship materials that seek to introduce any tobacco product.<\/p>\n<p>The POEA said that violators can face imprisonment and fines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(Those) entering the State of Qatar will be subject to legal liability if found in possession of banned tobacco derivatives, equipment, and other materials in relation to tobacco usage,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar\u2019s Law No. 10 of 2016 on the Control of Tobacco and its Derivatives provides strict measures to curb the import and use of tobacco products.<\/p>\n<p>It added that those found violating the relevant articles might face imprisonment not exceeding six months and fines not exceeding 100,000 Qatari riyal (PHP1,385,000).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) reminded overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) bound for Qatar to refrain from bringing tobacco &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[12570,14628,624,34500],"class_list":["post-145664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-overseas-filipino-workers","tag-philippine-overseas-employment-administration","tag-qatar","tag-tobacco-products","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}