A new smartphone app that shows smokers how much cigarettes will destroy their looks has been developed to encourage people to quit while they're young.

Using the new smartphone app from the National Health Service (NHS), we were able to see how these NZ celebrities might appear after 20 years of smoking.

Welfare benefits will go up by just 0.61 per cent from April 1 because the Government has decided not to give beneficiaries any compensation for higher cigarette prices.

New Zealand's largest hospitals are asking job applicants to disclose whether they smoke.

It’s been more than seven months since Greg Dixon walked away from his favourite habit: smoking lovely, lovely cigarettes. Does he feel better? Maybe. Has he become a rabid anti-smoking fascist? Definitely not

Actor Jim Carrey has given up alcohol and cigarettes, and embraced a strict new diet as part of a life-changing health kick.

"What is the powerful hold international tobacco peddlers seem to have over governments around the world?" asks Brian Rudman.

Simon Chapman says Big Tobacco is losing ground on plain packs but is homing in on less fortunate countries.

Forcing cigarettes up to $40 for a pack of 20 would achieve New Zealand's smokefree goal virtually overnight, important new research indicates.

Coca-Cola says there is not enough evidence to link the death of an Invercargill woman with her excessive Coke drinking, despite a coroner's report that found otherwise.

An Australian TV star has caused opened a can of worms after being busted smoking while pregnant.

We don't smoke and pretty much no one we know smokes so if our daughter sees someone puffing away in the street she is captivated, writes Shelley Bridgeman.

Justin Bieber has vowed not to let his fans down after he was caught up in a smoking scandal.

More than 200 smokers, keen to kick the habit for their New Year's resolutions, contacted Quitline this morning.

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.

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.