{"id":50090,"date":"2017-11-09T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/11\/09\/the-pope-bans-sale-of-tobacco-in-vatican\/"},"modified":"2017-11-09T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T13:48:00","slug":"the-pope-bans-sale-of-tobacco-in-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/11\/09\/the-pope-bans-sale-of-tobacco-in-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"The pope bans sale of tobacco in Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has personally decided that markets inside the Vatican will no longer sell cigarettes as of January 1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican spokesman, Greg Burke, explained that \u201cthe Holy See cannot contribute to an activity that clearly damages the health of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, according to the World Health Organization, every year smoking is the cause of more than seven million deaths throughout the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cigarettes were a source of revenue for Vatican markets, as they sell products tax-free, at a price much lower than Italy's.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the pope said \u201cno profit can be legitimate if it puts lives at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From now on, the only smoke produced by the Vatican will be white.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe cannot contribute to an activity that clearly damages the health of the people,\u201d the Vatican explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":50091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/isyMEuQHExc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/btabacoeng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/btabacoint.mov","type":"none","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}