{"id":657,"date":"2005-07-20T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/20\/112185089237707998\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T17:08:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T17:08:26","slug":"smoking-and-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/smoking-and-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking and the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,7445,1532071,00.html\">Yet another reason to love the EU<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;a holidaymaker going to Spain, can quite legally bring back into this country 160 packs [of 20 cigarettes].<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they are a smoker that is enough to keep them going for six months and, given cheap flights and the opportunity to have a holiday along the way, it also gives quite a cost saving.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think, however, the article&#8217;s trying to suggest this is a bad thing. Idiots. Smoking&#8217;s big and hard and clever and cool and grown up. So there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another reason to love the EU: &#8220;a holidaymaker going to Spain, can quite legally bring back into this country 160 packs [of 20 cigarettes]. &#8220;If they are a smoker that is enough to keep them going for six months &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/smoking-and-the-eu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}