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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. 

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

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