{"id":29022,"date":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/e-cigarette-influencers-to-be-banned-from-instagram-facebook\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:10:05","slug":"e-cigarette-influencers-to-be-banned-from-instagram-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/12\/19\/e-cigarette-influencers-to-be-banned-from-instagram-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Cigarette Influencers to Be Banned From Instagram, Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>E-cigarette product advertising already banned on both platforms<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Social media influencers who market electronic cigarette products will be banned from Facebook and Instagram, the companies say.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram said that global enforcement of the new policy will begin &#8220;in the coming weeks,&#8221; and Instagram owner Facebook said its policy will begin next year, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported Wednesday. E-cigarette product advertising is already banned on both platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the right policy, Facebook and Instagram are uniquely positioned to cut off Big Tobacco&#8217;s easiest access point to kids and young people around the world,&#8221; Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said in a statement to <i>CBS MoneyWatch<\/i>. &#8220;Updates to Facebook and Instagram policies on influencer marketing are desperately needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/e-cigarette-ban-british-american-tobacco-banned-from-promoting-e-cigarettes-on-instagram-in-uk\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CBS News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-cigarette product advertising already banned on both platforms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":29038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-29022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}