The charity urged the government to commit to plain, standardised packaging of tobacco, which is considered less appealing to youngsters.
New Zealand says it will put all tobacco products into plain packaging, following the landmark move by Australia last year.
It would prohibit the sale of discounted tobacco products, impose packaging requirements on cheap cigars and create a price floor for cigarette packs and small cigars.
She said the need now was to do more to prevent children and young people from taking up smoking, and she repeated the charity's call for the introduction of plain packaging for tobacco.
Among its many measures, the new treaty obliges governments to prohibit advertising, as far as their constitutions permit, as well as requiring at least 30% of any tobacco product's packaging to be given over to health warnings.
Anti-tobacco legislation like those imposing smoking bans in public areas, compulsory health warnings on the packaging and restrictions on advertising and marketing add to further decline in tobacco sales.
Tobacco growers say that reaping, curing and packaging have all been delayed by the violence.
Tobacco products in Australia must be in plain packaging without logos and have graphic health warnings as of December 1.
And, according to Ms Armstrong, the tobacco industry is not quaking with fear about a wave of plain packaging legislation.
The government is facing a claim by Philip Morris, a tobacco company, at a tribunal in Singapore over a law standardising cigarette packaging.
To achieve this the government is putting the squeeze on smokers through ever tougher regulation such as the ban on tobacco displays (which is being rolled out) and the introduction of plain packaging (which is being considered).
If approved by EU member states and the European Parliament, the Directive would, among other things, seize 75% of the tobacco package for graphic warnings and permit states to seize the entire label through plain packaging.
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