A new study on the prevalence of smoking among occupations considered to be role models for children and young adults has revealed a decline in smoking rates, plus which occupations might still need support to quit smoking.
A ground-breaking Auckland University study has found it is possible to smoke your way to quitting by using virtually nicotine-free cigarettes.
A standard 20-pack of cigarettes will break through the $15 price barrier on New Year's Day.
Nationwide supply problems with high strength nicotine patches has caused a headache for some Dunedin pharmacies.
In the year 2025 any smokers still drawing breath will find their habit on the edge of extinction. At least, that is the plan being promoted by "Aspire 2025" - a group of experts led by a professor of medicine from the University of Otago. Mark Price reports.
A policy banning smoking on the streets of Auckland has been rejected by the council.
The maker of Marlboro cigarettes has bought the rights to a tobacco-free "cigarette" which a New Zealand researcher says will not kill its smokers.
They will not be the health police but they may save your life, visiting British tobacco cessation specialist Jennifer Percival says.
Four shops in the Waitaki district are facing possible prosecution and fines up to $2000 after allegedly being caught selling cigarettes to under 18-year-olds during a campaign last week.
Tobacco displays in shops look set to be banned next year in what some hope is the beginning of the end for tobacco sales in New Zealand.
Smoking areas linked to three secure wards at Wakari Hospital will be retained, but four other outdoor smoking areas will be phased out.
Moves to ban all smoking on hospital premises faltered yesterday when the Southern District Health Board voted against smoke-free mental health services.
A bid to extend smokefree status to include psychiatric patients will be presented at a Southern District Health Board committee today.
New Zealand needs to "close the noose'' on a duplicitous and resourceful tobacco industry pedalling an addictive and lethal product, says the man who blew the whistle on the industry nearly 20 years ago.
Jeffrey Wigand, the real-life tobacco company whistle-blower from the movie The Insider, is shocked to learn of the high levels of nicotine and tar to which New Zealand smokers are exposed.
New Zealand smokers are exposed to much more nicotine from cigarettes than are Australians, possibly because of a preference for high-nicotine brands on this side of the Tasman.
A Dunedin taxi firm is taking a hard line with drivers who smoke, using carrot-and-stick measures to help them quit.
Smoking could increase the risk of depression, according to Otago University research published today in the prestigious British Journal of Psychiatry.
Dunedin anti-smoking groups are set to recommend the Dunedin City Council adopt a smokefree policy for public spaces throughout the city.
The tax increase on tobacco last week prompted a record number of smokers to reach for the phone rather than their cigarettes.
