Auckland Zoo will ban smoking from Saturday, riding the growing wave of opposition to lighting up at outdoor venues.

Roger Bull argues that bans on product displays in stores impinge on consumers' right to choose.

A large North Island iwi has adopted a bold strategy that will lead to a ban on bringing tobacco to events it controls.

Garth George writes that cigarettes are a tax windfall, and denying smokers medical attention is hypocritical.

Higher tobacco taxes are a first step to reducing numbers of smokers. Martin Johnston looks at what else could be on the cards.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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