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Jump to full article: Jerusalem Post, 2006-03-09
Author: JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
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If Israel makes it a priority, it "can make smoking history" by reducing the top public health problem in the country to negligible levels, said a US expert on Monday.
Prof. Gregory Connolly, a tobacco control expert at the Harvard School of Public Health in Israel to advise the Health Ministry's Healthy Israel 2020 project on preventing disease and promoting good health, was a guest at a special two-day conference of anti-smoking experts at Kibbutz Ramat Rahel, organized under the auspices of the ministry and sponsored in part by the US Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute. . . .
Connolly told The Jerusalem Post in an interview on Monday that implementation of similar recommendations in the state of Massachusetts is expected to save some 120,000 lives.
He added that the Israeli government must set a date by which it would scrupulously enforce existing no-smoking laws. In Dublin, he noted, there is a hefty fine against violators, while it is a relative pittance of only NIS 310 in Israel. He called on raising the tobacco tax . . .
A special meeting in Cyprus last week of anti-tobacco experts from Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian Authority, Israel and others - which was sponsored by the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute - overcame political boundaries in their opposition to smoking. The participants learned that hookah (water pipe) smoking, which originated in Arab countries, has spread throughout the Western world, including Israel, and poses much more danger to health than conventional cigarettes
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