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Price rises a big incentive to cut down

Australia to ban logos on cigarette packets

Australia is poised to introduce the world's harshest anti-smoking laws, with tobacco companies forced to sell cigarettes in plain packets resembling prescription drug packs.

$17 a packet: Parliament socks smokers

A typical pack of 25 cigarettes will cost now $17 after tax hikes were bulldozed through Parliament last night.

<i>Garth George</i>: The alcohol enigma - will MPs solve it?

Tobacco tax to jump 10pc at midnight

Tobacco tax will jump 10 per cent from midnight, raising the price of a pack of 20 cigarettes by about a dollar to around $11.

Bad habits 'will take 12 years off life'

Smoking, drinking too much, inactivity and poor diet can collectively age you by 12 years.

<i>George Thomson and Helen Wilson:</i> Policymakers overlook children who sit in smoke-filled cars

George Thomson and Helen Wilson ask why the Government is lagging on smokefree car laws.

How genes influence obesity, senility - and the effects of olive oil

Medical researchers have begun to elucidate the complex role of genes in human health.

UK: NHS trial offers people money to lose weight

Obese patients have been paid up to $911 to lose weight in a UK trial to test if financial incentives can be used to change unhealthy behaviour.

Ladettes narrow life gap

<i>Editorial:</i> Heat is on merchants of death

Turia wants tax rise to make tobacco too dear for young

Family tells of smoking death pain

MPs probing the tobacco industry got personal with the family of a Maori smoking victim describing the impact of his addiction and death.

Remove tobacco from shops, says academic

An Auckland academic says smoking rates in New Zealand would plummet if tobacco products could not be displayed at shops.

Call for tobacco to be dealt with the same way as meth

Marae under attack from smoking, inquiry told

Maori told the parliamentary tobacco inquiry today that their marae were being undermined by tobacco smoking and associated early death.