Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\nIn September, the Centre had issued an\nordinance to ban e-cigarettes, making the production, import, export,\ntransport, sale or advertisements of such “alternative” smoking\ndevices a cognizable offence attracting jail terms and fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the drive, which would last up\nto December 10, police will take necessary measures for proper implementation\nof the provisions of the Ordinance. Extra vigil will be ensured to prevent the\nuse of such banned products in schools, colleges and other educational\ninstitutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Central government had in\nSeptember prohibited e-cigarettes through promulgation of the Prohibition of\nElectronic Cigarettes (production, manufacture, import, export, transport,\nsale, distribution, storage, and advertisement) Ordinance, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Electronic\ncigarette: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nE-cigarette is a handheld battery-powered vaporizer that\nsimulates smoking and provides some of the behavioral aspects of smoking,\nincluding the hand-to-mouth action of smoking, but without burning tobacco. E-cigarette\nusers who use devices that contain nicotine are exposed to its potentially\nharmful effects. Nicotine is associated with cardiovascular disease, possible\nbirth defects etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Haryana Police launched a special drive to keep a check on the availability and usage of e-cigarettes and all other forms of electronic nicotine delivery systems across the state. Commissioners of Police and District Superintendents of Police have been directed to ensure enforcement of provisions of the Centre’s recent ordinance prohibiting e-cigarettes in their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,794],"tags":[541],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","category-current-affairs-november-2019","tag-haryana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6197,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/6197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}