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Researchers have hailed the success of group quitting competitions as a powerful way of giving up smoking.

Enjoying a coffee and some lunch in the sun this summer just got more pleasant for customers at one ground-breaking Whangarei cafe.

A judge has ruled a prison smoking ban is unlawful - a victory for career criminal Arthur Taylor, who challenged it in court.

Prison bosses have admitted that they expected riots when they banned smoking in jails last year.

An amputee says if it were not for synthetic cannabis he would have to take 27 pills a day for chronic pain.

With the price of cigarettes set to go up again on New Years’ Day, a new survey will look at how smokers are planning to cope with the hikes.

Smoking at the beach could join bans at playgrounds and sports fields in the latest moves to make Auckland smoke-free by 2025.

Newborns and unborn babies in later pregnancy have been dying in South Auckland at a higher rate than the national average for most of the past decade.

Researchers say young are vulnerable and have called for app stores to explore ways of regulating content.

Dropping a cigarette butt or chewing gum in Taupo could set you back $100 following changes to the council's littering policy.

University of Otago researchers say the public support the plain packaging of tobacco - but the industry says the research proves little about real smoker behaviour.

It's as if the creative team's brains exploded on to a whiteboard and they gave it to a junior animator and said: Make this, wites Toby Manhire.

Posters of a young woman smoking, displayed by a Kiwi clothing chain, have angered a health charity.