Identical packs of dark color for all types of cigarettes, a ban on displaying any types of tobacco products on shop windows, an almost total ban on advertising campaigns and marketing campaigns for cigarettes and tobacco are the points of the new bill approved today by the Knesset Economic Commission on its first meeting of the winter session of parliament.

View of a pack of cigarettes allowed for sale in Israel was posted on his Twitter account by one of the co-authors of the bill, the chairman of the commission, Knesset deputy Eitan Cable.

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? ? ? ? ? : ? ? ?. @EyalBenReuven @YehudahGlick pic. twitter. com / h4GFLIYfFV - ? (@cabel_eitan) October 15, 2018 There will not be any brand labels and images familiar to smokers on the pack, but only the name of the cigarettes, the name of the manufacturer and the warning about the dangers of smoking. In addition, the law requires manufacturers to put in each pack a campaign leaflet with an appeal to quit smoking..

MP Eyal Ben-Ruven, who also co-authored this bill, proposed to continue the practice of printing on packs of frightening illustrations of the effects of smoking.. This was undermined by the Deputy Minister of Health, Jacob Litzman (“The Jewish Torah”), explaining that such images are “unaesthetic”. According to him, it is quite enough if the warning about the dangers of smoking will occupy not 5% of the front and back side of the pack, as at present, but 30%.

As for tobacco advertising, it will be banned everywhere, with the exception of "isolated cases" in the paper media, channel 9 says.

According to the bill, a complete ban is imposed on smoking electronic cigarettes in public places..

For violation of the law by manufacturers, dealers and marketers provided a fine of 450 thousand shekels.

The Deputy Minister of Health warned that the implementation of the law should be strictly monitored, and for this the department headed by him will need to allocate an additional budget..

In order to completely reduce the fight against smoking to the situation “as close to combat as possible”, another co-author of the bill, Yehuda Glick, equated tobacco manufacturers to killers on a par with Palestinian terrorists.

"The tobacco industry is the murder industry, and as there are no boundaries for pursuing a terrorist who committed a murder in the Barkan industrial zone, there are no borders for pursuing this murder industry," Glick said.