{"id":66360,"date":"2015-12-06T06:14:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T11:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66360"},"modified":"2015-12-06T06:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T11:14:25","slug":"hundreds-gather-outside-queens-park-to-protest-laws-regulating-public-vaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/06\/hundreds-gather-outside-queens-park-to-protest-laws-regulating-public-vaping\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds gather outside Queen&#8217;s Park to protest laws regulating public vaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11645\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-510N_e-cigarette_and_e-liquids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11645\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-510N_e-cigarette_and_e-liquids.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Lauri Rantala \/ Flickr\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-510N_e-cigarette_and_e-liquids.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/800px-510N_e-cigarette_and_e-liquids-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wstryder\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Lauri Rantala<\/a> \/ Flickr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014Hundreds gathered outside Queen&#8217;s Park Saturday to protest a law that regulates electronic cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd puffed on e-cigarettes and chanted that \u201cvaping is not smoking\u201d and \u201cthe Smoke-Free Ontario Act has failed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They were there to protest the province&#8217;s Electronic Cigarette Act, which passed in May.<\/p>\n<p>The act regulates where and how e-cigarettes can be sold and smoked, and it prevents \u201cvape shops\u201d from demonstrating how to use the devices.<\/p>\n<p>E-cigarettes mimic the experience of smoking tobacco by vaporizing a liquid that often contains nicotine.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of e-cigarettes contend the devices are cleaner and healthier than traditional cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>The rally was organized by Vapor Advocates of Ontario, a group formed just last week<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014Hundreds gathered outside Queen&#8217;s Park Saturday to protest a law that regulates electronic cigarettes. The crowd puffed on e-cigarettes and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":11645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-66360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66360","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=66360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}