{"id":446,"date":"2007-04-26T00:57:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T05:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andresb.net\/?p=446"},"modified":"2007-04-26T00:57:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T05:57:04","slug":"necesito-un-cigarro-voy-a-la-farmacia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/post\/2007\/04\/necesito-un-cigarro-voy-a-la-farmacia\/","title":{"rendered":"Necesito un cigarro, voy a la farmacia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los mexicanos no entienden por qu\u00e9 me r\u00edo cada vez que escucho esa frase. En las farmacias de M\u00e9xico puedes comprar desde papas fritas hasta revistas del coraz\u00f3n y, por alguna misteriosa causa, cigarrillos.<\/p>\n<p>En marzo de 2006, parece que alguien se despert\u00f3 y vot\u00f3 una ley que prohibi\u00f3 expresamente la venta de cigarros en farmacias, hospitales y escuelas, por una serie de justificantes que a cualquier persona, fume o no, le parecer\u00edan razonables.<\/p>\n<p>La semana pasada, las presiones de las empresas tabacaleras (y sospecho que de los farmac\u00e9uticos tambi\u00e9n, porque significa m\u00e1s negocio) lograron que una parte de esa ley caiga en pedazos.<\/p>\n<p>Ahora se pueden comprar cigarros y pastillas para la tos en el mismo lugar, muy conveniente.<\/p>\n<p>La pregunta del mill\u00f3n: \u00bfcu\u00e1nto falta para que reinstalen la venta en hospitales y escuelas? Parece no haber ning\u00fan impedimento.<\/p>\n<p>Y no, no encontr\u00e9 ning\u00fan medio hablando de esto.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Need a cigarette? Go to the pharmacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Due to lobbying from big tobacco companies (and I guess pharmacists played a part too), near April 20th pharmacies were authorized to again sell cigarettes. There was a ban for tobacco in pharmacies, hospitals and schools (go figure why!) since March 2006, and part of that ban got reverted in a recent change of mind.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacies in Mexico are a diversified business, selling all kinds of products from lottery tickets to potato chips, including herbal pills and now cigarettes, again.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican media is suspiciously(not!) mum about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los mexicanos no entienden por qu\u00e9 me r\u00edo cada vez que escucho esa frase. En las farmacias de M\u00e9xico puedes comprar desde papas fritas hasta revistas del coraz\u00f3n y, por alguna misteriosa causa, cigarrillos. En marzo de 2006, parece que alguien se despert\u00f3 y vot\u00f3 una ley que prohibi\u00f3 expresamente la venta de cigarros en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}