{"id":562953,"date":"2019-01-02T08:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T12:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=06c95dae17887f8414d2a85a6a0a1838"},"modified":"2019-01-02T08:17:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T12:17:47","slug":"singapore-smoking-ban-sounds-radical-but-its-an-odd-way-to-reduce-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=562953","title":{"rendered":"Singapore &#8216;smoking ban&#8217; sounds radical, but it&#8217;s an odd way to reduce air pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 1 2019, Singapore will introduce a &#8220;no smoking zone&#8221; along a three kilometre stretch of Orchard Road \u2013 one of the city&#8217;s busiest shopping districts. It sounds controversial \u2013 restricting people&#8217;s right to smoke in public spaces, as a way of tackling air pollution and improving public health. But smoking is not actually banned down the length of Orchard Road: instead, smokers will be concentrated in 40 designated smoking areas, spaced 100-200 metres apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 1 2019, Singapore will introduce a &#8220;no smoking zone&#8221; along a three kilometre stretch of Orchard Road &ndash; one of the city&#8217;s busiest shopping districts. It sounds controversial &ndash; restricting people&#8217;s right to smoke in public spaces, as a way of tackling air pollution and improving public health. But smoking is not actually banned down the length of Orchard Road: instead, smokers will be concentrated in 40 designated smoking areas, spaced 100-200 metres apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562954,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562953\/revisions\/562954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}