{"id":49223,"date":"2025-03-10T16:26:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/?p=49223"},"modified":"2025-03-10T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:26:18","slug":"israel-mandates-graphic-warning-images-on-cigarette-tobacco-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/a\/49223","title":{"rendered":"Israel mandates graphic warning images on cigarette, tobacco products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel's Health Ministry has mandated that graphic warning images be printed on cigarette packs in an effort to deter\u00a0smokers, the ministry revealed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<section class=\"fake-br-for-article-body\"><\/section>\n<p>The images will include decayed organs of smokers, pictures of smokers on ventilators, and children surrounded by their parents' cigarette smoke.<\/p>\n<section class=\"fake-br-for-article-body\"><\/section>\n<p>The\u00a0Health Ministry\u00a0published draft regulations requiring graphic health warnings on tobacco products in addition to the existing written warnings.<\/p>\n<p>These warnings illustrate the health damages\u00a0caused by smoking\u00a0and exposure to secondhand smoke. The regulations will apply to various tobacco products, including cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, hookahs, and chewing or snuff tobacco.<\/p>\n<section class=\"fake-br-for-article-body\"><\/section>\n<p>The publication of these regulations places Israel among countries that already mandate graphic warnings on tobacco products.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding electronic cigarettes, Israel will be one of the first countries globally to require a combined health warning (both graphic and textual) on e-cigarettes and their components.<\/p>\n<section class=\"fake-br-for-article-body\"><\/section>\n<p>Under the regulations, the mandatory labeling will include both a graphic health warning illustrating the dangers and harm caused by smoking and a textual health warning explaining the negative health consequences of smoking and exposure to smoke.<\/p>\n<h3>Quit smoking services<\/h3>\n<p>Additionally, the regulations mandate labeling with information on services for quitting smoking, directing users to the Health Ministry's quitline or cessation services offered by health funds.<\/p>\n<section class=\"fake-br-for-article-body\"><\/section>\n<p>\"This is another significant step in reducing the attractiveness of tobacco products and preventing youth addiction to tobacco and nicotine,\" said Health Minister Uriel Busso.<\/p>\n<p>source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-and-wellness\/article-845020#google_vignette<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel's Health Ministry has mandated that graphic warning images be printed on cigarette packs in an effort to deter\u00a0smokers, the ministry revealed on Thursday. The images will include decay &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abesmoke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}