Competitive Landscape
Top Players Sustain Lead
Cigarettes remains highly concentrated, with the combined retail volume share of the three largest companies accounting for the vast majority in 2025. Over the period from 2020 to 2025, the environment became even more consolidated.
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Overview:
Understand the latest market trends and future growth opportunities for the Cigarettes industry in Israel with research from Euromonitor International's team of in-country analysts – experts by industry and geographic specialisation.
Key trends are clearly and succinctly summarised alongside the most current research data available. Understand and assess competitive threats and plan corporate strategy with our qualitative analysis, insight and confident growth projections.
If you're in the Cigarettes industry in Israel, our research will help you to make informed, intelligent decisions; to recognise and profit from opportunity, or to offer resilience amidst market uncertainty.
The Cigarettes in Israel report includes:
- Analysis of key supply-side and demand trends
- Detailed segmentation of international and local products
- Historic volume and value sizes, company and brand market shares
- Five year forecasts of market trends and market growth
- Robust and transparent research methodology, conducted in-country
This report answers:
- What is the market size of Cigarettes in Israel?
- Which are the leading brands in Cigarettes in Israel?
- How are products distributed in Cigarettes in Israel?
- Which category is the most heavily taxed in Israel?
- How is the operating environment for Cigarettes changing?
- What are the current legislative restrictions applicable to the sale of Cigarettes products in Israel?
- How has COVID-19 impacted demand?
- How have national lockdown and enforced home seclusion following COVID-19 impacted sales?
- Where is future growth expected to be most dynamic?
Cigarettes in Israel - Category analysis
Key Data Insights
Cigarettes Summary
Tightening Regulations Prompt Incumbent Brands to Defend Volume Resilience
Sustained Demand Drives Growth Despite Increased Prices
Price-Focused Brands Adapt to Regulations
Regulation and Taxation to Drive Value Growth as Volume Faces Sustained Pressure
Top Players Sustain Lead
Small Local Grocers Capture Routine Smokers with Proximity and Convenience
External Behavioural Pressures and Entrenched Habits Define the Innovation Environment
Portfolio Management and Compliance Execution Replace Product Launches as the Core Commercial Activity
Incumbency Advantage Deepens as Barriers Constrain New Entrants and Smaller Players
Taxation Rates
Average Cigarette Pack Price Breakdown
Nicotine in Israel - Industry Overview
2025 Developments
Key Data Insights
Rregulations Sustain Cigarette Dominance While Curbing Innovation
Graphic Warnings and Tax Hikes Reduce Product Appeal and Limit Switching
Dual Use Lifts Cigarette Sales and Slows Decline Elsewhere
Smokers Prioritise Cigarettes Despite Rising Taxes and Restrictions
Dual Users Drive Heated Tobacco Growth as Switching Remains Limited
Philip Morris Ltd Consolidates Dominance as Smaller Players Lose Ground
Small Local Grocers Sustain Cigarette Sales through Proximity and Frequency
Food and Tobacco Specialists Enable Gradual E-Commerce Gains for Heated Tobacco
Legislation
Legislative Overview
Minimum Legal Smoking Age
Smoking Prevalence
Tar Levels
Health Warnings
Plain Packaging
Advertising and Sponsorship
Point-Of-Sale Display Bans
Flavoured Tobacco Product Ban
Vapour Products
Production/Imports/Exports
Country Reports Disclaimer
The following categories and subcategories are included:
Cigarettes
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- Fine Cut Cigarettes
Cigarettes
RETAIL SALES OF DUTY PAID CIGARETTES The definition of cigarettes for the purposes of this study is duty-paid, machine manufactured white-stick products. This does not exclude brands of cigarettes that do not use white paper but it is designed to exclude the volume of non-machine manufactured products such as bidis/beedis (India) and papirosy (Russia), and other smoking products made with tobacco but that either do not resemble cigarettes as recognised in the US or Europe, or those that are not machine manufactured. The exclusion of these products is intended to give a more accurate picture of the "true" market for cigarettes and cigars which has been distorted in official statistics and published reports because of the inclusion of hybrid products. NB Please note that due to its central importance and integration into the industry mainstream, Indonesia’s market data does include hand-rolled kreteks DUTY-FREE sales are excluded from retail sales, as are herbal cigarettes. ILLICIT TRADE CIGARETTES Not included in retail sales, but split out separately in volume terms only. Defined as non-duty paid cigarettes (includes smuggled & counterfeit/fake products combined). Legitimate cross-border sales are considered duty-paid. Sales arising from a foreign national purchasing cheaper cigarettes in bulk in a neighbouring country for personal use and exported back are attributed to the country where the purchase is made (e.g. bulk cigarette sales by British nationals in France are attributed to France).
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This report originates from Passport, our Cigarettes research and analysis database.
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