Jump to full article: Jerusalem Post, 2009-03-23
Author: JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Intro: Jerusalem lawyer and anti-tobacco activist Amos Hausner has asked the Central District Court to certify a NIS 20 million class-action suit against a north Tel Aviv pub and club, for failure to enforce no-smoking laws in the establishment.
The pub, Mandy's on Rehov Rokah, is named for Mandy Rice Davis, who was involved in the Profumo Affair that discredited the Conservative government of British prime minister Harold Macmillan in 1963, and subsequently converted to Judaism and settled in Israel.
Davis and her husband, Rafi Shauli, are not official owners of the pub, but they are involved in the business, according to Internet news reports. . . .
Hausner was prompted by complaints from a non-smoking couple named Eli and Gal who went to Mandy's to celebrate the anniversary of their meeting and were overwhelmed by smoke. The couple said all their attempts to get the staff to stop the smoking were fruitless.
Hausner then found 19 photos on the Internet used to promote the place. All the photos showed smokers and the lighting up of cigarettes throughout the pub, even though smoking in pubs is illegal except in completely separate and ventilated smoking rooms.
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