{"id":571,"date":"2012-05-07T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2012-05-07T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T13:56:34","slug":"knesset-approves-sterner-anti-smoking-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/knesset-approves-sterner-anti-smoking-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Knesset approves sterner anti-smoking measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Israel&#8217;s Knesset approved more\u00a0anti-smoking measures on Wednesday, May 2.\u00a0 These new stricter laws\u00a0will be implemented\u00a0in one month. Smoking will no longer be allowed at public events, outdoor sites (including the <em>kotel<\/em> or Western Wall)\u00a0bus stops,\u00a0outdoor concert venues,\u00a0nor within ten yards of a medical clinic\u00a0or a\u00a0hospital entrance.\u00a0 Smoking will still be permitted at stadiums.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The Deputy Health Minister is required by law to submit a\u00a0report annually to the Knesset speaker as part of\u00a0 the\u00a0World Health Organization&#8217;s <em>World No Tobacco Day<\/em>, which occurs on May 31. According to the last study conducted by the\u00a0Health Ministry&#8217;s Center for Disease Control approximately one fifth of the Israeli population smokes cigarettes. In an effort to support citizens trying to end their smoking habit,\u00a0anti-smoking prescription drugs, such as Zyban and Champix, were included on the\u00a0state&#8217;s\u00a0subsidized medicine list.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Knesset%20approves%20sterner%20anti-smoking%20measures\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[87,8781,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}