Welcome to to the award-winning
web site of
Action on Smoking and
Health
(ASH)
Why
Should Join
ASH
ASH is the nation's oldest
and largest
antismoking organization, and the only one which regularly takes
hard-hitting
legal and other actions to fight smoking and to protect the rights of
nonsmokers.
ASH provides nonsmokers
with legal
forms and valuable information to help them protect their rights, and
to
learn more about the problems and costs of smoking to nonsmokers.
ASH's actions have helped
prohibit
cigarette commercials; ban smoking on planes, buses, and many public
places;
lower insurance premiums for nonsmokers, etc.
ASH is entirely supported
by tax-deductible
contributions from people like you concerned about smoking and
protecting
the rights of nonsmokers. Click
here for big tax-saving tips.
To learn how easy it is to join ASH,
and to receive many special gifts, please
click here.
Please stay awhile, and sample the wide variety of news,
documents,
links, and other information available on ASH's
site. Come back often for newly-added features.
If you are a nonsmoker, ASH's
site
may save your life, or help you protect your health. It could also help
to save the life of a friend or a loved one who still smokes.
ACTION ON
SMOKING AND HEALTH
(ASH)
2013 H Street, NW / Wash. DC, 20006
(202) 659-4310
A National Legal-Action Antismoking Organization
Entirely Supported by Your Tax-Deductible Contributions
CELEBRATING 36 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
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ASH
IN ACTION FOR YOU
Recent Victories:
# ASH
got the support of Surgeon General David Satcher, M.D., the Department
of Health and Human Services [HHS], and the Federal Trade Commission
[FTC]
for its proposal to require cigar health warnings.
# ASH
helped uphold an important settlement for nonsmokers in Florida which
has
become final.
# ASH
helped convince Montgomery County, MD, to ban smoking in all
restaurants
and bars.
# ASH
has persuaded several major restaurant chains to review their policies
regarding smoking.
# ASH
helped prevent Liggett Tobacco Company from escaping liability for its
cigarettes.
# ASH
helped to formulate the legal theories behind the government's suit
against
big tobacco, and to prevent Senate attempts to cut off all funding for
the suit.
Some On-Going ASH Actions:
# ASH's
legal petition to ban all workplace smoking is pending before OSHA
# ASH's
legal complaints against so-called smokeless cigarettes is pending
before
the FDA
# ASH's
legal petition for FDA regulation of cigars is pending before the FDA
# ASH's
legal demand for smokefree airports is pending before DOT
# Informal investigation of smoking in
movies
triggered by ASH's
complaint ongoing by Dept. of Justice
# ASH's
legal complaint against "bidi" cigarettes is pending before the FTC
# Various workplace smoking complaints
prepared
with ASH's
help
pending before state and federal OSHA
# ASH's Freedom
of Information Act requests being processed by FDA
What They
Say About
ASH
The tobacco institute's most active opposition has its
headquarters
within four blocks of the institute's plush digs. If you want to get
involved
in anti-smoking efforts, contact ASH -- READER'S DIGEST
At the forefront of this campaign [to protect nonsmoking
passengers]
is a nonprofit organization called Action on Smoking and Health -- NEW
YORK TIMES
If there's one group the tobacco industry fears more than any
other,
it's ASH. Action on Smoking and Health, the foremost smoking and health
organization in the country -- THE PASSIONATE NONSMOKERS' BILL OF
RIGHTS
John F Banzhaf III, The Man Behind the Ban on Cigarette
Commercials
-- READER'S DIGEST
It is encouraging that [ASH] has been able to move with such
effectiveness
against the powerful tobacco industry -- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
The victory [forcing TV stations to air free antismoking
messages] prompted
Banzhaf to quit his New York law firm and devote his time to ASH -- TIME
MAGAZINE
A potentially effective weapon in the public interest may
exist in [ASH]
-- NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Such individuals as Banzhaf have the potential to tilt the
balance of
power in Washington law -- THE SUPERLAWYERS
The industry was about to meet one of the most effective
antismoking
activists ever. Thus was born the first organization in the US
dedicated
solely to fighting tobacco companies -- BOSTON GLOBE
[ASH] played a major role in establishing the legal concept of
the right
of nonsmokers to be free from exposure to tobacco smoke. [ASH]
serves
as the legal action arm of the antismoking community -- 1989
SURGEON
GENERAL'S REPORT
Banzhaf may be to Camels what Ralph Nader was to Corvairs. He
was instrumental
in getting the nation's airlines to ban smoking on most domestic
flights.
He's the bane of the tobacco industry -- REGARDIE'S MAGAZINE
Where There's Smoke There's Banzhaf & Co. . . The man
whose single-handed
legal attacks put anti-cigarette commercials on television.
WASHINGTON
STAR
The rights of the nonsmoker to breathe air unpolluted by
tobacco smoke
have been vigorously asserted recently by a number of public interest
groups
created especially for this purpose. . . . Prominent among these
is the Washington-based Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). THE
POLITICS
OF CANCER
The nongovernmental organization leading the antismoking
campaign in
the United States. WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE
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