Tobacco

Israel mandates graphic warning images on cigarette, tobacco products

Israel is set to become one of the first countries in the world to mandate shocking images on cigarette packaging.

|ByDR. ITAY GAL
Decayed organs, ventilated smokers, and children enveloped in smoke
Changing human skeletons. Tobacco.

Tobacco changed human skeletons, researchers say

The research team analyzed human skeletal remains dating from the 12th to the 19th centuries to investigate the impact of tobacco use on bone health.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
IT’S HARD to believe that we still need to have a discussion about smoking tobacco, the writer laments.

Tobacco company advertises products differently in Israel, depending on demographic - study

The study emphasized the critical need for rigorous media surveillance and regulatory measures to ensure fair and balanced reporting.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Se trata de la primera prueba física del consumo de cannabis en la era moderna no sólo en Italia, sino también en Europa, señaló el equipo.

High before the low: Cannabis increases risk of severe COVID-19 - study

Patients who had admitted to using cannabis in the year prior to contracting COVID were 80% more likely to be hospitalized and 27% more likely to be admitted to the ICU.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Human trials of tobacco plant-based COVID-19 vaccine begin

Medicago's potential vaccine uses the leaves of a plant from the tobacco family to produce the S-spike protein, one of the three spike proteins of the novel coronavirus.

JULY 14, 2020ByREUTERS
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Canadian company Medicago develops plant-based coronavirus vaccine

The company has developed a unique method of creating a vaccine by letting plants do the work. "We're using plants as mini factories," said Natalie Charland, a senior director at Medicago.

JUNE 29, 2020ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
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Tobacco company may produce coronavirus vaccine

British American Tobacco recently announced that it is working on a potential vaccine for coronavirus through its US biotech subsidiary, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP).

APRIL 7, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Injecting syringe for vaccination (illustrative)

Tobacco epidemic at turning point as male smoking rates stall - WHO

The change in global smoking trends shows that governments' efforts to control tobacco are working "to save lives, protect health, beat tobacco," the WHO said in a report.

DECEMBER 19, 2019ByREUTERS
Deep breaths: Smoking pollution in Tel Aviv

Next step in tobacco marketing ban to hit next week

This phase includes a new list of provisions intended to prevent aggressive promotion of tobacco products.

JULY 5, 2019ByEMMA MCAVOY
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

Police seize hundreds of kilograms of smuggled tobacco

The tax the smugglers tried to avoid when sneaking the tobacco in the country would have been more than NIS 1 million.

APRIL 2, 2019ByYVETTE J. DEANE
Police seize hundreds of kilograms of smuggled tobacco

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
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