Draft amendment to the Law Prohibiting Advertising and Restricting the Marketing of Tobacco and Smoking Products, 5743-1983, is incorporated into Israel's Economic Policy Law (Legislation Amendments for the Implementation of the Economic Policy for Budget Year 2026), 5786-2026, Chapter 12: Law on the Supervision of Smoking Products for Tax Purposes, and published by the Tax Authority in the Ministry of Finance. Israel's Economic Policy Law is a government bill presented to the Knesset (Israel's parliament) alongside the State Budget Law. This legislation incorporates government legislative amendments for structural, institutional, and policy reforms necessary to fulfil its economic policy. The Economic Policy Law devotes a separate chapter to a set of Laws and Orders regulating the market of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and other smoking products, aiming to protect public health. In recent years, there has been a trend of 'renewal' in the smoking market characterized by the emergence of smoking devices, primarily reusable and disposable electronic cigarettes. In response to market changes, the government decided in 2021 to tax electronic cigarettes in a manner similar to that of tobacco products. so that e-cigarette smokers will be encouraged through price to reduce consumption, and to reduce the entry of non-smokers (especially youth) into the world of smoking through e-cigarettes. Despite the applicable purchase tax on cigarettes, the purchase tax on electronic cigarettes is…