{"id":497439,"date":"2025-11-19T17:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=497439"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:51:12","slug":"belarus-may-ban-advertising-of-e-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-may-ban-advertising-of-e-cigarettes","title":{"rendered":"Belarus May Ban Advertising of E-Cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus is considering a ban on advertising e-cigarettes and other smoking devices, as well as expanding the list of places where smoking will be fully prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was outlined at a press conference by <strong>Volha Bartman<\/strong>, head of the Public Health Department at the Republican Centre for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health, according to \u201cSputnik Belarus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She said work on tightening regulations continues both at the EAEU level and domestically. A new law is being prepared in Belarus to consolidate rules governing tobacco and nicotine-containing products. The draft is undergoing interagency review and already includes additional restrictions \u2014 in particular, a complete ban on advertising electronic smoking devices.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bartman, advertising of vapes and other electronic smoking products is currently widespread.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also introduces stronger protections for non-smokers by expanding the list of places where smoking \u2014 including e-cigarettes \u2014 will be prohibited. Proposed measures include banning smoking on the porches of apartment buildings and dormitories.<\/p>\n<p>Recent data indicate that the highest share of users of nicotine-containing products is in the 19\u201329 age group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus is considering a ban on advertising e-cigarettes and other smoking devices, as well as expanding the list of places where smoking will be fully prohibited. The proposal was outlined at a press conference by Volha Bartman, head of the Public Health Department at the Republican Centre for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":497438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/691de77625255.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus May Ban Advertising of E-Cigarettes"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}