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 Diego’s ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products. In a sometimes tersely-worded decision, Judge Sammartino denied the plaintiff’s complaints and granted the defendant’s motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim.

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• Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber on International Women’s Day
• ASH Statement for the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
• ASH Statement: U.S. Rejoins the World Health Organization
• TID Editorial from ASH & Partners: Educating the public and lawmakers about tobacco industry interference
• Laurent’s Guest Blog for WCTOH on Tobacco and Human Rights
• Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo’s statement for ASH’s Webinar on Tobacco Endgame in Spain
• ASH Guest Blog on Why I Fight: For Regan and Paul
• ASH Blog: Why Tobacco Still Matters
• Downloadable Flyer to Post in Multi-Unit Housing with Secondhand Smoke Issue

• NAQC Newsroom: Impact of COVID-19 on tobacco cessation
• Global Competition: #MakeTobaccoPay
• Mil Gracias for Not Smoking Indoors during COVID-19—Lungs Can Only Take so Much!
• “Virtually” Anything Is Possible: Anti-Tobacco & Anti-Vaping Instruction
• California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) Rejects Reinvesting in Tobacco Again
• Cochrane Review finds stopping smoking linked to improved mental health
• The Important, Evolving Role of Pharmacists in Helping Patients Quit Smoking
• Tobacco-Free Mecklenburg’s program to add cessation to mental health and/or substance use disorder treatment.
• Lawsuit Alleges Collaboration Between Philip Morris International and the Supposedly Independent Foundation for a Smoke-Free World

Tobacco products remain the #1 preventable cause of death both in the U.S. and worldwide. And when our global society has been battling the deadly coronavirus for more than a year, anything more deadly than COVID-19 is a huge deal. We’ve collectively made massive personal, professional, social, and financial sacrifices to join forces and combat COVID-19. It’s time we also unite and re-commit ourselves to ending the man-made tobacco epidemic.

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