{"id":199280,"date":"2025-06-01T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-delays-to-tobacco-bill-fuel-misinformation-on-safer-nicotine-products-experts-warn\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:35:00","slug":"kenya-delays-to-tobacco-bill-fuel-misinformation-on-safer-nicotine-products-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-delays-to-tobacco-bill-fuel-misinformation-on-safer-nicotine-products-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Delays to Tobacco Bill Fuel Misinformation On Safer Nicotine Products, Experts Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Health experts have raised alarm over delays in passing Kenya&#8217;s Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill 2024, warning that regulatory stagnation is fuelling misinformation about smokeless nicotine products and hindering efforts to reduce tobacco-related harm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Marking World Vape Day, the Harm Reduction Society called on the Senate to fast-track the Bill, which was first introduced in July 2024 but remains stalled. The proposed legislation would establish Kenya&#8217;s first legal framework for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300497.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 Health experts have raised alarm over delays in passing Kenya&#8217;s Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill 2024, warning that regulatory stagnation is fuelling misinformation about smokeless nicotine products and hindering efforts to reduce tobacco-related harm. Marking World Vape Day, the Harm Reduction Society called on the Senate to fast-track the Bill, which was first introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":199281,"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":[258,256,7292,6190,5060,7570,4688,430,32928,257,45120,7418,7719,254,4456,12313],"class_list":["post-199280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-delays","tag-experts","tag-fuel","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-misinformation","tag-news","tag-nicotine","tag-products","tag-safer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tobacco","tag-warn"],"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\/199280","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=199280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}