{"id":9513,"date":"2010-09-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/11\/10000-ganesh-mandals-vow-to-stub-out-tobacco-ads\/"},"modified":"2010-09-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T12:00:00","slug":"10000-ganesh-mandals-vow-to-stub-out-tobacco-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/09\/11\/10000-ganesh-mandals-vow-to-stub-out-tobacco-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Ganesh Mandals Vow To Stub Out Tobacco Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/mumbai\/10K-Ganesh-mandals-vow-to-stub-out-tobacco-ads\/articleshow\/6521399.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, September 9, 2010: 10,000 Ganesh mandals in the city are pledging to refrain from advertising tobacco products during the 11-day festival. The success of the pledge, though, remains to be seen as mandals collectively stand to lose over US$100,000 as tobacco companies are their major sponsors. <\/p>\n<p>If the mandals stick to their pledge, one would not get to see any tobacco-related advertisements, even surrogate ones, in the pandals this year. &#8220;We have already appealed to all mandals that advertisements related to gutkha, cigarettes or other tobacco products should be totally banned,&#8221; said Naresh Dahibawkar, president of Sarvajanik Ganpati Mandal Samanvay Samiti. <\/p>\n<p>Dahibawkar, however, admitted that the losses for mandals could be up to 10-15% as tobacco companies provide the lion&#8217;s share of advertisements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com MUMBAI, INDIA, September 9, 2010: 10,000 Ganesh mandals in the city are pledging to refrain from advertising tobacco,&#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-9513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513","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=9513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}