Adult smokers in the UK who light up with children in the car will be fined £50 ($101), under new Government plans.

Electronic cigarettes are more effective at helping smokers to quit tobacco when they contain nicotine, a review of studies has found.

The Cancer Society wants smoking banned by next year at Auckland's publicly owned outdoor dining areas.

It's ten years today since smoking was banned in bars, but Maori are still more likely to smoke than Europeans. We map where the ethnic smoking gap lies.

Doctors question if an already stretched workforce can cope with the govt's ambitious target to treat every cancer patient within two months.

Hundreds of smokers around New Zealand participated in the Stoptober campaign to quit smoking.

A small Massachusetts town has become the angry flashpoint for the latest showdown in America's war on smoking as health officials try to introduce a blanket ban on the sale of all tobacco and nicotine products.

The West Coast District Health Board has offered to pay up to $350 in petrol and fuel vouchers to smoking pregnant women in a bid to get them to quit the habit.

I know a slab of young people who find smoking abhorrent, and a total turn-off. But there is also sizeable chunk of people like me, who are wracked with guilt at finding it attractive.

France is on the verge of introducing some of the most stringent anti-smoking legislation in the world, following Australia's lead - and it could work.

Matt Heath writes: Soon parents will get in as much trouble for putting sugar in their coffee as I did for a tasty little cigarette.

Cigarette-style warnings should be placed on wine showing its health risks and the number of calories it contains, a group of British MPs has said.

Cigarette consumption has long been in decline in the US. But some states and demographics still seem to be clinging on to the habit - and keeping tobacco companies afloat.

Plain packaging makes cigarettes taste worse than branded cigarettes and makes all cigarettes taste the same, new research suggests.

E-Njoint BV is selling its high-tech spliffs at parties, music events, bars and clubs and across Europe.

The Cancer Society is appealing to Auckland suburbs with the city's highest rates of smoking for help to press for a smokefree bylaw and possibly fines.

Kiwi diners are being exposed to large amounts of secondhand smoke even when they choose to sit inside restaurants, a study shows.

Why anyone would want to bring anything but fresh air into their lungs now that tobacco's damage has been well documented, is a mystery.

With appealing fruity flavours and an A-list celebrity fanbase, electronic cigarettes could lead young people into lifelong tobacco addiction, it's increasingly feared.

E-cigarettes with sweet flavours are being targeted at school children and could get them hooked on nicotine, it has been claimed.

Public health researchers say the Government's next step after introducing plain packaging for tobacco should be to make cigarettes ugly.

New Zealand's wine and dairy producers will be forced to export their products without branding in retaliation for Government's introduction of plain packaging of cigarettes.

Is the tobacco plain packaging bill amendment worthwhile? Honestly, I'm on the fence, writes Lee Suckling.

A photo of a young boy with a cigarette in his mouth and a can of pre-mix spirits in his hand has been slammed by the Children's Commissioner.

The days of bulk-buying cigarettes at the border are over after the Govt revealed its latest anti-smoking policy would cut the duty-free allowance.