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• Soldiers are smoking mad over tobacco ban on IDF bases 

The IDF was handed an official order from the Knesset Tuesday - no more smoking on military bases or other security institutions, effective immediately.

The law, which passed a third and final reading in the plenum Tuesday, would eliminate the IDF's current exemption from the laws that ban smoking in public places.

Soldiers have already begun plotting to disobey the new orders, slamming the Knesset for "creating unnecessary legislature."

"The politicians who created this law have clearly never understood what it means to be in the army," said David, a 20-year-old Golani Brigade soldier from Haifa. "We're finally not living at home, under our parents' rules. We're adults, and smoking is a common and sometimes necessary thing for us to do to relieve tension."

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