Warnings on individual cigarettes, health inserts inside packs and the banning of flavours are among a raft of new "world-leading" changes proposed by the federal government in a new bid to crack down on smoking.
One of the country's leading tobacco control experts has called for the total ban of all vaping products around the country as uptake among the nation's youth soars.
More than a decade after plain packaging was introduced, the federal government is planning to create 11 new measures to fight against tobacco addiction.
The New Zealand Government will ban young people from ever being able to purchase tobacco in their lifetimes under new plans to make New Zealand smoke-free.
A professional bodybuilder who supplied prisoners with contraband when he was a corrections officer has managed to avoid getting his own jail sentence.
The US Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to ban menthol flavoured cigarettes and all flavoured cigars, including menthol flavour, within the next year.
A man in eastern France was shocked to discover that an image of his amputated leg had been used on cigarette packets in an anti-smoking warning, allegedly without his permission.
A court has heard the discarded cigarette butt near the murder scene led police to arrest Aaron Carver, 35, over the alleged killing of foreign national Urim Gjabri.