{"id":10439,"date":"2011-09-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/08\/smoke-free-rituals-in-bali\/"},"modified":"2011-09-08T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T12:00:00","slug":"smoke-free-rituals-in-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/08\/smoke-free-rituals-in-bali\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke-Free Rituals in Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balidiscovery.com\/messages\/message.asp?Id=7341\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BALI, August 26, 2011 (Bali Discovery): A survey conducted by the provincial government of Bali shows 93% of Bali&#8217;s residents support the implementation and enforcement of non-smoking areas. Of great concern are results from the same survey showing wider use of tobacco by 10-year-old children in Bali. A 2007 survey determined 24.9% of ten-year-old children smoked, a number that increased to 31% in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the Hindu High Council (Parisadha Hindu Darma Indonesia), Ngurah Sudiana, is calling on legislators to include Puras or religious temples in Bali in those areas off-limit to smoking together with all religious gatherings. The call for the smoking ban at religious events is a surprise, given the tradition of providing free cigarettes whenever hosting or organizing a religious ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BALI, August 26, 2011 (Bali Discovery): A survey conducted by the provincial government of Bali shows 93% of Bali&#8217;s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}