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A Letter from the Chair

January 19, 2026

…led me to a broader realization: tobacco use is not only a public health issue, but also a human rights issue. In 2008, the Human Rights and Tobacco Control Network…

ASH’s Impact in 2025 | Building Toward the End of Tobacco Sales

December 19, 2025

…rights, for example the right to health. As such, ASH focuses on 4 key areas of work: (1) Phasing out the sale of commercial tobacco products, (2) Using the law…

Embedding Human Rights in WHO FCTC Implementation

December 10, 2025

…4.3 on Article 18-Protection of the environment and the health of persons– emphasized the connection between tobacco control and the human right to health and to a healthy environment. The…

Reimagining Nicotine Treatment in the African American Community

November 6, 2025

…right to health from the influence of the tobacco industry, we must ensure that our advocacy efforts and treatment support are equitable, addressing existing gaps and denouncing the industry’s intentional…

International Day of the Girl Child: How Big Tobacco Continues to Harm Women’s Health

October 10, 2025

…the tobacco industry as it continues to negatively shape our public health and communities. To support ASH’s work on preventing tobacco industry interference in our right to health, click here>…

Guest Blog: Regional Steps Towards Progress: Insights from the 62nd Directing Council of PAHO/WHO

October 7, 2025

…health with the Walk for Health event. PAHO Director Dr. Jarbas Barbosa led the movement both literally and metaphorically, promoting equal access to opportunities for exercise, healthy food, and free,…

INC-5.2 Day 5: UN Plastic Pollution Treaty Negotiations

August 9, 2025

…left before INC5-2 negotiations conclude; do what needs to be done to protect our collective right to a healthy environment and the highest attainable standard of health. ASH’s Key…

INC-5.2 Day 2: UN Plastic Pollution Treaty Negotiations

August 6, 2025

…national sovereignty and public health. Many countries have made it clear: any global agreement must respect their right to take stronger action to protect their citizens and environments from plastic-related…

Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Health Hearing | Nicotine-Free Generation State Bill

July 18, 2025

…September and considered at the next COP in November. The global public health community embraced tobacco endgame at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in 2018 by adopting the…

Empower Women, End Tobacco Exploitation in Ireland

June 23, 2025

…#CEDAW91 is reviewing how #Ireland protects #womensrights. Tobacco companies violate women’s human right to life, right to health and right to be free from discrimination by running targeted media campaigns…

Joint Submission | 39 Organizations Call on UN Human Rights Council

June 18, 2025

…promote the “right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health” as well as the “right to a healthy environment.” Read the complete…

Banning Cigarette Filters: Plastic and Beyond

May 13, 2025

…it. Second, this campaign raises overall awareness of the cigarette filter problem. Cigarette filters do not protect users’ health and once used, they are toxic no matter what they are…

Success: CEDAW Calls to Protect Women’s Rights by Strengthening Tobacco Policies

April 22, 2025

…citizens’ human rights. Smoking negatively impacts several human rights that are legally protected in binding UN human rights treaties, such as the right to life, right to health, right to…

The Basic Right to Breathe at Home Air Free of Neighbors’ Tobacco Smoke: How Can You Implement It?

March 26, 2025

…exposure to neighbors’ tobacco smoke came up with the same answer. Secondhand smoke is annoying and causes short- and long-term health and annoyance effects. Any exposure at a distance of…

20 Years of FCTC | Dr. Alfred Munzer’s Reflection

February 20, 2025

…World Health Organization has become the developing world’s best friend. The objective of the Framework Convention is “to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and…

20 Years of FCTC | Laurent Huber’s Reflection

February 20, 2025

…500 public health, human rights, consumer rights, women’s and children’s rights organizations and environmental activists from over 100 countries, rallying to support the development of the strongest, evidence-based, and most…

Leaving the World Health Organization is Bad for Public Health

January 21, 2025

…of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.” Otherwise known as the right to health,…

2024 Reflection from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber

December 19, 2024

…“Tobacco is deeply harmful to human health, and there can be no doubt that the production and marketing of tobacco is irreconcilable with the human right to health. For the…

ASH’s Accomplishments in 2024

December 17, 2024

…rights, for example the right to health. As such, ASH focuses on 4 key areas of work: (1) Phasing out the sale of commercial tobacco products (aka Project Sunset, Tobacco…

US FDA Proposes Life-Saving Rule to Lower Nicotine in Cigarettes

December 13, 2024

…insecticide (sounds like something we want inside us, right?). Over the decades, the tobacco industry has spent huge sums figuring out how to chemically make cigarettes more addictive. That’s why…

A Handful of Volunteers are Kicking the Industry’s Butt in Massachusetts

December 11, 2024

…opened the way, but having the right to do something and actually doing it are very different. There are two forces at work that offer an advantage. The first is…

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Tobacco

December 9, 2024

…human being. Tobacco, and the actions of the tobacco industry, violate a number of human rights, most clearly, the right to health. Let’s keep fighting to protect human rights, together!…

The Birthplace of Human Rights – Switzerland – Allows Corporate Malfeasance

October 7, 2024

…from violations of their right to health, right to a health environment, and other essential human rights, and is allowing the multi-national tobacco companies based in Switzerland to export that…

Empower Women, End Tobacco Exploitation

October 6, 2024

…to CEDAW on how tobacco companies violate women’s human rights in Canada, Chile, Japan, and New Zealand. Tobacco companies violate women’s human right to life, right to health and right…

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