Beijing will ban smoking in restaurants, offices and on public transport from today, part of unprecedented curbs welcomed by anti-tobacco advocates.

The income gap between smokers and nonsmokers has grown. And it's something companies may need to address directly.

Three eateries with tables on the footpath of Park Rd opposite Auckland City Hospital are going smokefree outdoors from tomorrow, World Smokefree Day.

The Government has been urged to consider restricting sales of nicotine electronic cigarettes to pharmacies.

A study published in the leading journal Addiction might just change everything for electronic cigarettes.

Sales of legal tobacco shrank by 23 per cent from 2009 to 2013, say researchers from Action on Smoking and Health.

I have never smoked, but friends introduced me to e-cigarettes, and now I am addicted.

Smoking among New Zealand 14 and 15-year-olds, has dipped below 3 per cent for the first time.

Vapour from e-cigarettes has a fraction of the toxins of traditional cigarettes, and much less nicotine, a new study has found.

The Government is being lobbied to bring the tobacco plain-packaging bill back to Parliament for a final vote.

Smokers tend to have a thinner outer brain layer than non-smokers, new research suggests.

Quitline is running an ad depicting little children pretending to "smoke" their crayons, writes Shelley Bridgeman. Aimed at adults, yes. But what of the longer term effects?

More and more Kiwis are choosing to kick their nastiest habit and give up smoking as a New Year resolution.

The New Year is a time for reflection. This year, we met everyday New Zealanders who have suffered heartbreaking moments in their lives.

New Zealand researchers have shown that a low-cost, Soviet-era quit-smoking pill is more effective than nicotine-replacement therapy.

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

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.

Laurie Holmes has patches, Champix and lozenges to help him quit - but he's gone cold turkey without a hiccup.

Hundreds of smokers have joined a Stoptober campaign to give up the habit, and many more will try to quit on their own - with little chance of success.

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.