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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Knesset votes to require graphic warnings on all cigarette and smoking product packaging
Renee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel.
File: Cigarette packages with a warning label reading 'Watch out- smoking kills' for sale at the Ben Gurion International Airport on September 13, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
The Knesset votes to require and legally enforce the printing of graphic warnings on all cigarette and smoking product packaging.
The new requirement is an amendment to the existing law outlawing advertising and limiting the marketing of tobacco products.
The responsibility for issuing specific instructions about the photographs showing the health damage caused by smoking to be printed on individual packs and multi-pack cartons falls to the Health Minister.
Producers and importers of cigarettes and smoking products who do not affix the graphic warning labels or print them on packaging will have committed a criminal offense.
