Cigarettes

Employee cigarette breaks in France equal three weeks of lost work a year

Employees who smoke describe these pauses as a coping tool that can help them return to tasks more effectively.

 An illustrative image of smoking a cigarette
Israeli Authorities Probe Large-Scale Smuggling Network Moving Goods Into Gaza

Prosecutors file new Gaza smuggling indictment as state seeks detention through trial

Trucks carry aid for Palestinians, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 14, 2025.

Shin Bet employee indicted in Gaza smuggling affair alongside Bezalel Zini

Bezalel Zini, brother of Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) chief David Zini, suspected of smuggling cigarettes into Gaza, February 3, 2026.

Zini affair highlights the security and political costs of Gaza smuggling - opinion


Juul e-cigarette company files petition to High Court against ban

Silhouetted Israeli soldiers from the Home Front Command Unit take a smoking break during an urban warfare drill inside a mock village at Tze'elim army base in Israel's Negev Desert June 11, 2017

Israel bans high-nicotine Juul e-cigarettes

The government claimed a "serious danger to the public" as the reason for the ban on imports and sales of the product.

Juul e-cigarette starter pack is seen in this picture illustration taken July 16, 2018

The e-cigarette ban will increase smoking and kill more Israelis

The most reliable gateway to cigarette use are other smokers. In particular, military personnel are twice as likely to become smokers and stay smoking as civilians.

Electronic cigarette

Israel smokes out cigarette smugglers

This operation in the village of Barta'a, is part of an extensive and ongoing effort by the Tax Authority to crack down on smuggling and black market sales.

Captured counterfeit cigarettes

Ministers stymie effort to ban tobacco advertising

Knesset Economics Committee chairman Eitan Cabel said the government was “addicted to working for the tobacco companies.”

Smoking

Doctors: ministries, PM ‘do nothing’ to prevent addictive JUUL in Israel

In response, the Health Ministry said in a bill), electronic cigarettes can be declared equivalent to tobacco products so that all existing and new restrictions will apply.

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