Tobacco

Israel climbs tobacco rankings as cigarette affordability raises concerns - study

Israel improved its standing in the international anti-smoking index, but the report found that one of the most effective tools for reducing smoking, higher prices, has weakened.

|ByDR. ITAY GAL
Cigarette boxes with an affixed, self-made cigarette label displaying graphic images (R) and those with the original label are pictured in the shop of tobacconist and kiosk owner Janine Schulzki in Berlin
Israeli Authorities Probe Large-Scale Smuggling Network Moving Goods Into Gaza

Prosecutors file new Gaza smuggling indictment as state seeks detention through trial

According to the indictment, the four defendants operated in an organized, repeated pattern to move trucks loaded with prohibited goods into Gaza outside the authorized mechanism.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Tobacco seized by the IDF that was being smuggled into Gaza.

WATCH: IDF thwarts attempt to smuggle tobacco disguised as food aid into Gaza

Hundreds of kilograms of tobacco hidden in canned food products were seized at the Kerem Shalom crossing, prompting COGAT to suspend the company’s permit to bring aid into Gaza.

|ByJAMES GENN
CIGARETTES ON display at a convenience store in Safed carry warnings that smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke and other harm to smokers and their children.

Cost of cigarettes in Gaza skyrockets to NIS 100 amid smuggling operation scandal - report

"Sometimes the cost reaches thousands of shekels," a source told Walla, explaining that the skyrocketing cost is due to decreased supply and high demand. 

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

High Court deals another setback to smoking, tobacco industries

Additional restrictions will kick in in June and in January 2020.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
A 40g pouch of Bali Shag Halfzware, Bali Shag Halfzware tobacco and red Bali Shag rolling papers

Israel thwarts West Bank smugglers

Taxes on tobacco and cigarettes estimated at hundreds of thousands of shekels

JULY 29, 2018ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Captured counterfeit tobacco and cigarettes

41 MKs pass cannabis decriminalization bill

Tobacco advertisement bill also passes first reading.

JULY 19, 2018ByOREN OPPENHEIM
An employee inspects the leaf of a cannabis plant at a medical marijuana plantation in northern Israel.

Ministers stymie effort to ban tobacco advertising

Knesset Economics Committee chairman Eitan Cabel said the government was “addicted to working for the tobacco companies.”

JULY 8, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN
Smoking

MK Yehudah Glick embarks on anti-smoking hunger strike

The hunger strike will coincide with the Knesset’s no-smoking day on Tuesday.

JUNE 11, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN
Likud MK Yehudah Glick

State Comptroller blasts Health Ministry for poor management under Litzman

In his report, Joseph Shapria said Deputy Minister Ya'acov Litzman and senior officials promote smoking, among other shortcomings.

MAY 8, 2018ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Yaacov Litzman

Litzman says Health Ministry will prevent free smokes at Meron

Last year at least one tobacco company set up a huge tent at Meron.

MAY 1, 2018ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Silhouetted Israeli soldiers from the Home Front Command Unit take a smoking break during an urban warfare drill inside a mock village at Tze'elim army base in Israel's Negev Desert June 11, 2017

Jpost Health and Science Editor wins award for fight against smoking

2,000 Israelis die each year of lung cancer, most of them from smoking or exposure to others’ smoke.

MARCH 8, 2018ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Health and Science Editor Judy Siegel-Itzkovich (left)

Preliminary Knesset reading bars tobacco ads on web but not newspapers

Some 8,000 Israelis who smoke or are exposed to smoke die per year, and the cost of treating victims of smoking costs billions of shekels annually.

JANUARY 10, 2018ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
‘THE TOBACCO industry attempts to impede tobacco regulation have changed over the years, but have not abated – they have instead mutated, and on a global scale.’

Knesset approves bill to restrict tobacco advertising on Internet

The bill was put up for a vote in the committee due to the demand of Knesset Member Glick.

DECEMBER 25, 2017ByJUDY SIEGEL
Eitan Cabel