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MK Hasson seeks to filter out dependency-causing ingredients such as nicotine.
Jump to full article: Jerusalem Post, 2010-03-16
Author: JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Intro: Kadima MK Yoel Hasson tabled a private member’s bill on Monday that, if passed, would be the world’s first law barring the sale of tobacco products containing addictive substances such as nicotine, or other substances, such as menthol and ammonia, that make nicotine more addictive, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
If tobacco were not addictive, the smoking rate would quickly decline (from the present 23 percent). People already addicted to nicotine who felt the need for it would be able to get it through other “delivery systems,” such as nicotine chewing gum, skin patches and other forms, but not through tobacco, the bill states.
Hasson’s bill is due to go to the Ministerial Committee on Legislation to get the go-ahead. The Health Ministry has reportedly not yet discussed the issue and whether to endorse it.
The idea of tobacco without addictive or addiction-promoting substances was first proposed in 2000 by Amos Hausner
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