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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 536

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A woman passes a cigarette during a protest calling for the release of the people held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, outside the Defense Headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 3, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
April 12, 2024, 9:10 pm
Stressed out by war, Israelis appear to be smoking more than they have in years
Soldiers, hostages’ families and others seem to be lighting up at increasing levels, reversing years of falling rates, but health experts aren’t pushing them to kick the habit yet
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Children eating peanut-flavored snack Bamba (Courtesy Osem)
August 28, 2023, 1:11 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 28: A restructure for media outlets; Bamba back in school?
Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn on a proposal by the communication minister and health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand on allergens in school and anti-smoking steps
By ToI Staff
Illustrative. Cigarettes in an ashtray, October 17, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 22, 2023, 10:58 am
Health Ministry launches new plan to stub out worrisome rise in Israeli smoking
With 8,000 deaths per year tied to tobacco and increasing numbers of youth taking up vaping, special task force offers a dozen recommendations to address problem
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Teenagers vaping in a park. (iStock)
June 11, 2023, 9:57 am
With tobacco use on rise in Israel, kids and teens see their health go up in smoke
Bright colors, fruity flavors, and nicotine are getting kids as young as 12 hooked on vaping, while adults’ outdoor secondhand smoke is embedding itself deep in children’s bodies
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Meidan Keller. (Facebook)
April 15, 2023, 11:12 am
Teen dies after ‘disconnecting himself’ from ECMO for lung collapse said due to vape
Meidan Keller’s father says he stepped out of room for a moment, parents should keep their kids away from electronic cigarettes; hospital case referred to Health Ministry for probe
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A man smokes an electronic cigarette in Chicago, April 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
April 14, 2023, 3:45 am
Teen hospitalized with collapsed lungs apparently caused by vaping
Mother of 16-year-old boy, who is in serious condition, urges other parents to not let their children use electronic cigarettes
By ToI Staff
18-year-old Jewish Orthodox students take a break in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. May 18, 2011. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 13, 2022, 3:44 pm
Philip Morris targeting Haredi society to grow next generation of smokers – study
Tobacco behemoth spent 87%, nearly NIS 3 million, of its local advertising budget on ultra-Orthodox, despite community having the lowest smoking rates in the country
By Ash Obel
Illustrative. A man using an electronic cigarette exhales in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, on October 4, 2019. (AP Photo/ Tony Dejak, File)
October 12, 2022, 1:04 pm
Man in serious condition after electronic cigarette blows up in his face
Dimona man suffers first-degree burns to face, chest, after device explodes; transported to Soroka Medical Center for treatment
By Ash Obel
A high school student uses a vaping device near a school campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
September 24, 2019, 7:30 pm
Israel stubs out flavored tobacco, mulls total ban of e-cigarettes
In response to US deaths linked to vaping, Health Ministry calls the smoking devices a ‘real danger to public health’
By ToI Staff
A woman takes a puff from a cannabis vape pen in Los Angeles, December 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
September 9, 2019, 9:25 pm
As vaping-linked mortality spikes in US, Israel issues dire warning
Health Ministry warns use of marijuana oil in e-cigarettes could be deadly; US health officials are probing cause of hundreds of sudden sicknesses and at least 5 deaths
By ToI Staff and Agencies
JUUL Labs co-founder and Chief Product Officer James Monsees testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 25, 2019, during a hearing on the youth nicotine epidemic. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
July 27, 2019, 10:51 pm
Amid vaping ‘epidemic,’ Juul exec says never intended e-cigarette for teens
James Monsees grilled by Congress as lawmakers accuse company of fueling craze among high-schoolers
By MATTHEW PERRONE and Richard Lardner
Illustrative photo of a man smoking an electronic cigarette. (CC BY, Lindsay Fox, Wikimedia Commons)
November 18, 2018, 2:44 am
US Jewish day schools ‘not immune’ to e-cigarette epidemic among teens
With flavors such as mango, fruit medley, and creme brulee, American youth are taking up ‘vaping’ — including at Orthodox institutions
By Ben Zehavi
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