Any financial incentive – from cash to vouchers, acts as a major psychological motivation, tempting people to get over their smoking addiction.

It’s an 11th-hour plan from the Biden administration that will take years to go into effect, if it happens at all.

Mary Mac Mahon HSE Mid-West Tobacco Lead, says: “Over a third of current smokers are either trying to quit or actively ...

I’m talking about methamphetamine which, in Hawke’s Bay at least, seems to be in fresh and abundant supply. If that’s so, ...