News Roundup
Court acts on Israel's poorly enforced ban on workplace smoking
BMJ 2006; 333 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.333.7561.218 (Published 27 July 2006) Cite this as: BMJ 2006;333:218
Jerusalem Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
Israel's High Court of Justice has set an international precedent in enforcing a World Health Organization convention intended to protect people from exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke.
In what is believed to be the first major national legal application of provisions of the WHO's framework convention on tobacco control, Justice Elyakim Rubinstein allowed an appeal by Irit Shemesh, a pregnant woman who was exposed to secondhand smoke in a Jerusalem restaurant despite Israel's strict law against …
Log in
Log in using your username and password
Log in through your institution
Subscribe from £173 *
Subscribe and get access to all BMJ articles, and much more.
* For online subscription
Access this article for 1 day for:
£38 / $45 / €42 (excludes VAT)
You can download a PDF version for your personal record.