A Manhattan criminal defense attorney who smuggled to his client a pack of Newports that also contained a scalpel blade and marijuana—secreted items he said he didn’t know were in the pack—has been suspended for six months from practicing law.

The lawyer, Justin Levine, 62, also must participate for at least a year in mental health and alcohol abuse programs run by the New York City Bar Association’s Lawyer Assistance Program, as part of the discipline meted out by the Appellate Division, First Department court on Thursday.