With 8,000 deaths per year tied to tobacco and increasing numbers of youth taking up vaping, special task force offers a dozen recommendations to address problem

Bright colorsת fruity flavors, and nicotine are getting kids as young as 12 hooked on vaping, while adults' outdoor secondhand smoke is embedding itself deep in children's bodies

Yisrael Porush filmed giving smokes to young teenagers; tells media they were prizes won in quiz

New law permanently forbids sale of tobacco to anyone born after start of 2009, also limits amount of nicotine permitted in smokes

Tobacco behemoth spent 87%, nearly NIS 3 million, of its local advertising budget on ultra-Orthodox, despite community having the lowest smoking rates in the country

Oded Chen says his daughters no longer want to eat chicken: 'We felt nauseous'; factory acknowledges it could be responsible, apologizes for 'distress'

Family of Rami Nori, 81, who was in a bed next to the smoker, accuses Sheba Medical Center of negligence for not having fire extinguishing systems in place; Sheba denies charges

Carrie Keller-Lynn on the ground in Ukraine; Ricky Ben-David on what's at stake with Israel's oligarchs; Nathan Jeffay on a new coronavirus variant and cigarettes for kids on Purim

Health Ministry report finds dramatic gaps between men and women, Arabs and Jews, and by levels of educational achievement