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Illustrative: Israelis smoke cigarettes and drink beer at a party in the center of Jerusalem, August 20, 2009. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 31, 2026, 4:43 pm
War stress reported as reason 37% of Israeli smokers lighting up
Among youth, 24% report use of e-cigarettes; 93% exposed to secondhand smoke; public anti-smoking campaigns and disturbing graphics do not appear to be effective deterrents
By Diana Bletter
Graphic warnings on cigarette packages from around the world. (Courtesy/Israel Cancer Association)
May 29, 2025, 3:19 pm
Ahead of World No Tobacco Day, Knesset votes to require graphic images on smoking products
Israel is the 2nd country to mandate such warnings on e-cigarettes, as survey finds 31% of Israeli smokers have started or resumed lighting up due to stress since start of the war
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: A man rolls and sells cigarettes on a street in Khan Younis, on the southern Gaza Strip on August 15, 2024. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
May 19, 2025, 8:59 pm
3 Israelis indicted for smuggling drugs and cigarettes into Gaza via drones
Police say smuggling is a security threat since drones could fall into Hamas’s hands; Danish authorities nab man for selling drones to terror group to be used in attack
By Charlie Summers and AFP
A woman passes a cigarette during a protest calling for the release of the people held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, outside the Defense Headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 3, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
April 12, 2024, 9:10 pm
Stressed out by war, Israelis appear to be smoking more than they have in years
Soldiers, hostages’ families and others seem to be lighting up at increasing levels, reversing years of falling rates, but health experts aren’t pushing them to kick the habit yet
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative. Cigarettes in an ashtray, October 17, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 22, 2023, 10:58 am
Health Ministry launches new plan to stub out worrisome rise in Israeli smoking
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
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Teenagers vaping in a park. (iStock)
June 11, 2023, 9:57 am
With tobacco use on rise in Israel, kids and teens see their health go up in smoke
Bright colors, 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
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Screen capture from video of Elad mayor Yisrael Porush handing out cigarettes to children at a Purim event, March 7, 2023. (Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 8, 2023, 10:20 am
Mayor of ultra-Orthodox city Elad hands out cigarettes to children at Purim party
Yisrael Porush filmed giving smokes to young teenagers; tells media they were prizes won in quiz
By ToI Staff
File: A man sits while smoking in Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 (AP Photo/David Rowland, File)
December 13, 2022, 7:13 pm
New Zealand imposes lifetime cigarette ban on youths in bid to end smoking
New law permanently forbids sale of tobacco to anyone born after start of 2009, also limits amount of nicotine permitted in smokes
By Nick Perry
18-year-old Jewish Orthodox students take a break in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. May 18, 2011. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 13, 2022, 3:44 pm
Philip Morris targeting Haredi society to grow next generation of smokers – study
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
By Ash Obel
An illustrative photo of a cigarette but from January 2017. (Flash90)
September 17, 2022, 10:05 am
‘We felt nauseous’: Family finds cigarette butt in packaged chicken from supermarket
Oded Chen from Karmiel says his daughters no longer want to eat chicken; factory acknowledges it could be responsible, apologizes for ‘distress’
By ToI Staff
A man smokes a cigarette (Orel Cohen/ Flash90)
May 11, 2022, 12:06 pm
2 hospital patients die of burns sustained when one lit up cigarette while on oxygen
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
By ToI Staff
People who fled the war in Ukraine rest inside an indoor sports stadium being used as a refugee center, in the village of Medyka, a border crossing between Poland and Ukraine, on March 15, 2022.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
March 16, 2022, 1:41 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 16: Special report from Lviv; ‘toxic’ oligarchs; polio in Israel
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
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of people smoking cigarettes. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
June 5, 2019, 9:28 am
One in five Israelis smoke, but increasing numbers are trying to quit
Health Ministry report finds dramatic gaps between men and women, Arabs and Jews, and by levels of educational achievement
By ToI Staff
Officials in Amman, Jordan filed corruption charges on February 7, 2019 against Jordanian individuals and firms alleging they produced fake cigarettes. The government says it cost the country hundreds of millions in lost revenues. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
February 7, 2019, 9:20 pm
Jordan charges 29 in fake smokes scandal
Former officials, businessmen among suspects in tax scam involving counterfeit cigarettes worth hundreds of millions
By AFP
Illustrative. A woman holding tobacco, January 25, 2017. (Flash90)
February 4, 2019, 8:38 pm
High Court calls on government to match tax on loose tobacco to cigarette tax
Decision a blow to Finance Minister Kahlon, who has resisted calls to hike cost; NGOs fete ruling as a ‘historic achievement’
By Michael Bachner
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