{"id":196313,"date":"2025-04-18T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-bans-11-chinese-cigarettes-for-violating-tobacco-laws\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T11:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:31:05","slug":"kenya-govt-bans-11-chinese-cigarettes-for-violating-tobacco-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-govt-bans-11-chinese-cigarettes-for-violating-tobacco-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Govt Bans 11 Chinese Cigarettes for Violating Tobacco Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The government has banned the importation of 11 Chinese cigarette brands for violating the Tobacco Control Act 2007 and Tobacco Control Regulations 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Some of the brands include RGD Blue, Huangshan, Harmonization, Septwolves, Naijing, and Guiyang, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Tobacco Control Act 2007 provides a legal framework for controlling tobacco products, including their production, sale, labeling, advertising, and sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">&#8220;On 25th March 2025, a multi-agency team comprising Ministry&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180066.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The government has banned the importation of 11 Chinese cigarette brands for violating the Tobacco Control Act 2007 and Tobacco Control Regulations 2014. Some of the brands include RGD Blue, Huangshan, Harmonization, Septwolves, Naijing, and Guiyang, among others. The Tobacco Control Act 2007 provides a legal framework for controlling tobacco products, including their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":196314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7339,435,11504,4357,4688,430,5040,257,254,4456,14447],"class_list":["post-196313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bans","tag-chinese","tag-cigarettes","tag-govt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-laws","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tobacco","tag-violating"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}