{"id":121339,"date":"2019-12-01T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/01\/shenzhen-vaping-capital-of-the-world-holds-its-breath-as-health-concerns-spiral\/"},"modified":"2019-12-01T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:00:49","slug":"shenzhen-vaping-capital-of-the-world-holds-its-breath-as-health-concerns-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=121339","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhen, vaping capital of the world, holds its breath as health concerns spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-cigarette-related deaths in the US and a Beijing directive have China\u2019s manufacturing sector on tenterhooks Online e-cigarette sales looked like a promising industry for Edwin Wong when he started his venture a year ago. The 34-year-old had studied Shenzhen\u2019s businesses and products since 2012, and saw a sure bet. Soon, he had developed a loyal base of more than 600 repeat customers and business was steady.But suddenly, everything changed. Overnight his 2.2m yuan (\u00a3240,000) investment in a startup, called KiwiPod, disappeared. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/01\/shenzhen-vaping-capital-of-the-world-holds-its-breath-as-health-concerns-spiral\" target=\"_blank\">Shenzhen, vaping capital of the world, holds its breath as health concerns spiral<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-cigarette-related deaths in the US and a Beijing directive have China\u2019s manufacturing sector on tenterhooks Online e-cigarette sales looked like a promising industry for Edwin Wong when he started his venture a year ago. The 34-year-old had studied Shenzhen\u2019s businesses and products since 2012, and saw a sure bet. Soon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}