{"id":13030,"date":"2016-11-30T13:41:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T13:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=13030"},"modified":"2016-11-30T13:41:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T13:41:06","slug":"voice-of-london-investigates-londons-vaping-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/voice-of-london-investigates-londons-vaping-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the &#8216;Vaping Culture&#8217; a Fad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The &#8216;Vaping Culture&#8217; isn&#8217;t the initial reason London established its moniker &#8216;The Big Smoke&#8217;, but it&#8217;s a strange adaptation of one.<\/h3>\n<h3>Reporter: Gabrielle Espinet | Subeditor: Lateefa Farah<\/h3>\n<p>A 2016 Action on Smoking Health <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ash.org.uk\/files\/documents\/ASH_93.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(ASH) <\/a>study shows that 2\/3 of smokers start before age 18. \u00a0Between one half and one third of these smokers will become regulars. \u00a0The study reveals that two-thirds of current smokers are trying to quit and 30-40% of the two-thirds attempt to bring smoking to a halt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">But how? What are people turning to to end the addicting health-threatening habit? \u00a0Trends direct Voice of London to the &#8216;Vaping Culture&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EZ99iHujuEg]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Vaping Culture&#8217; isn&#8217;t the initial reason London established its moniker &#8216;The Big Smoke&#8217;, but it&#8217;s a strange adaptation of one. Reporter: Gabrielle Espinet | Subeditor: Lateefa Farah A 2016 Action on Smoking Health (ASH)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":13031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[5695,6647],"class_list":["post-13030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investigations","tag-smoking","tag-vaping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}