{"id":24300,"date":"2018-03-09T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=24300"},"modified":"2018-03-09T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T12:21:21","slug":"smoking-on-rise-among-young-indian-women-assocham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/smoking-on-rise-among-young-indian-women-assocham\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking on rise among young Indian women: Assocham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casual and social smoking is on the rise among young working women across metropolitan cities in India, an Assocham report said on Thursday. &#8220;Of the total (respondents), only about two per cent said they were heavy smokers (smoking one pack a day or more)&#8230; majority of them said that peer pressure and work-related stress pushed them to increase number of cigarettes they smoked,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all the respondents said that the phenomenon of women smoking was basically confined to tier-one cities like Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the respondents said they smoked &#8220;casually owing to the &#8216;cool&#8217; factor and&#8230;feelings of attractiveness, independence and sophistication&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>About 40 per cent of the respondents identified themselves as very light smokers, with a habit of smoking one or two cigarettes either daily or occasionally. About 12 per cent said they were light smokers, smoking two to three cigarettes a day.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted by Assocham Social Development Foundation among 2,000 women in the age group of 22-30 years in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi-NCR (National Capital Region), Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai and Pune.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casual and social smoking is on the rise among young working women across metropolitan cities in India, an Assocham report said on Thursday. &#8220;Of the total (respondents), only about two per cent said they were heavy smokers (smoking one pack a day or more)&#8230; majority of them said that peer pressure and work-related stress pushed [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24302,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions\/24302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}