{
  "id": 1716659,
  "title": "Businesses Petition National Assembly for Nationwide Public Participation on Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/businesses-petition-national-assembly-for-nationwide-public",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-18T12:55:23.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "KahawaTungu",
    "slug": "kahawatungu",
    "url": "https://kahawatungu.com/businesses-petition-national-assembly-for-nationwide-public-participation-on-tobacco-control-amendment-bill/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Businesses under the Pubs, Entertainment and Restaurants Association of Kenya (PERAK) have petitioned the National Assembly to conduct nationwide public participation on the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill, 2024, describing the current engagement process as inadequate and exclusionary. The businesses presented signed petitions to the National Assembly on behalf of Kenyans from various…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}