Tobacco Industry Lobbyists Undermine Public Health
“There is an irreconcilable conflict between the goals of tobacco companies and the goals of public health,” said Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorney at ...
How to Sidestep Addiction and Save a Billion Lives | Tamu Green Ph.D. | TEDxFolsom
“We have the expectation that consumer products that needlessly cause injury and death are never placed on the market, but wha...
ASH’s Impact in 2022
We are a small but mighty team, fighting back against the endless resources of Big Tobacco. The tobacco industry is working harder than ever to maintain their deadly grasp on their custome...
ASH’s Accomplishments in 2021
ASH’s work is based on the principle that the behavior of the tobacco industry – producing, marketing, and selling addictive products that kill when use as intended – violates h...
2020 ASH Annual Report Released
The year 2020 brought much-needed attention to social justice and placed the right to health front and center in global public health. In a matter of months, w...
148 Organizations, Universities, and Cancer Centers Call for an End to Combustible Tobacco Sales
ASH and 147 organizations released an open letter calling on governments around the world to not only envision...
Another Legal Blow to Big Tobacco
On March 29, 2021, Judge Janis Sammartino of the U.S. District Court for Southern California dashed the hopes of R.J. Reynolds and other plaintiffs seeking to overturn San D...
As of January 1st, Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California, became the only jurisdictions in the U.S. to eliminate the sale of commercial tobacco, although other jurisdictions are seriously considering ...
In August, ASH welcomed a new staffer to the team, Carol Maytum (pictured top right). She is based out of Sacramento, California and gives us boots on the ground for the West Coast! Carol is a veteran tobacco...
This June, ASH joined forces with the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC) and Pollock Cohen LLP to sue the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over their inaction on menthol cigarettes...
On Thursday, April 2, 2020, ASH hosted a live webinar with Dr. Carolyn Dresler to address the nexus between the tobacco epidemic, human rights and the coronavirus. The discussion focused on the additional r...
Tobacco companies interfere in more places than anyone realizes.
“The tobacco industry has been lurking in the shadows of U.S. public health policy for decades. They not only sell deadly products; they figh...
What’s happening with the U.S. Vaping Crisis? And why isn’t the media discussing cigarettes too?
On August 23, 2019, the 1st death from vaping was reported in the U.S. Since then, the CDC and FDA have been wo...
ASH’s Global Forum on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World, co-hosted by the Romanian Presidency, The European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP), and Romania 2035 Tobacco-Free Generation Initi...
How the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights impacts tobacco
For the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), ASH Deputy Director for Policy Chris Bostic...
Over 100 Towns in Sri Lanka Stop Cigarette Sales
Over 100 towns across Sri Lanka have boycotted the sale of cigarettes with an aim to discourage smoking and making Sri Lanka a tobacco-free nation, the Health M...
How Many Preventable Deaths Are Acceptable? The Answer Must Be Zero.
For World No Tobacco Day, our Executive Director Laurent Huber shared a statement reminding us why we fight for a world free from tobacco ...
Tobacco as a Human Rights Violation
If you didn’t see it this past week, here’s our video explaining tobacco as a human rights violation. With yesterday being World Health Day, the timing couldn’t be more idea...
Let’s Get Rid of Cigarettes
“In the 21st century, society is facing numerous public health challenges to which researchers are still searching for solutions. We must unite to end the tobacco epidemic which has...
Open Letter to PMI from 123 Organizations
Since this campaign launched in mid-September, we’ve continued to receive additional sign-ons from organizations demanding that Philip Morris International i...
ASH hosted a legal expert group in Geneva
For the first time, an international meeting was held to spread knowledge between the U.S., our colleagues in the Netherlands, and 16 other countries on criminal liabi...
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber at HHS
Statement from ASH on E-Cigarettes Following the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy r...
Uruguay’s Victory Over Philip Morris Will Change the World
After more than six years of litigation, the International Centre for Investment Disputes found against Philip Morris Internatio...
Just Released: ASH Annual Report 2015
“In the nearly 50 years since ASH started taking action, 2015 stands out as one of our most successful. I truly believe that we have turned a corner, and that victory,...
BAT PETITION
Thank you all for your support of our joint petition in January. This week, ASH joined allies (Corporate Accountability International, Public Citizen, & International Labor Rights Forum) to ...