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 customers, most of whom want to quit smoking.
ASH and our partners have been fighting for decades to create a world where cigarette sales keep declining, and it was working. But in 2020, cigarette sales rose. We now have an uphill battle to fight, meaning your support is greatly needed.
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- ASH’s Accomplishments in 2022
- ASH Statement: A Global First: New Zealand Passes Tobacco Endgame Bill Package
- ASH Statement: Christopher K. Leung Receives Project Sunset Award for Courage in Public Health
- ASH Statement: ASH Welcomes Protection from Flavored Tobacco Products in California
- Synopsis and Prospects: UN Plastics Pollution Treaty Negotiations
- Podcast Episode: Tobacco Matters: Past, Present and Future
- UN Plastics Pollution Treaty Negotiations: Day 1, Day 2 (plus video statement), Day 3, Day 4
- Overview of ASH’s work on plastic pollution
- ASH Statement: Professor Stephen P. Marks, Harvard Professor Emeritus, Joins Action on Smoking and Health Board of Trustees
- ASH 2021 Annual Report
- Blog: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
- Pan American Journal of Public Health: Progress, challenges and the need to set concrete goals in the global tobacco endgame
- ASH Statement and Video: Decades of Dedication: Dr. Alfred Munzer’s Career in Public Health
- ASH Statement and Video: 2022 C. Everett Koop Unsung Hero Awarded to Dr. Carolyn Dresler
- ASH Statement: The Spanish Government Must Protect Health Over the Tobacco Industry
- Joint Statement: UN Committee calls on Germany: Protect children from second-hand smoke, tobacco advertising and child labour
- NPR interview with ASH: New Zealand cracks down on lighting up
- Court Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Brookline, Massachusetts’ Tobacco-Free Generation Law
- Supreme Court Refuses to Halt California Flavored Tobacco Ban – now in effect as of December 21, 2022
- The Importance of Cessation Following FDA Regulatory Momentum
- WHO: We need food, not tobacco – focus of World No Tobacco Day 2023
- Why the “cold turkey” method of quitting vaping or smoking doesn’t work – and what does
- French survey results: More than 1/3 of Health Professionals Do Not Raise the Issue of Smoking with their Patients Who Smoke
- Australia: Individual cigarettes could carry ‘smoking kills’ warnings: health minister
- Netherlands to ban smoking on playgrounds, only allow tobacconists to sell cigarettes
- City of Baltimore Sues Big Tobacco to Recover Costs of Cigarette Litter Damage
- The ‘filter fraud’ persists: the tobacco industry is still using filters to suggest lower health risks while destroying the environment
- ’To be honest, I’m really scared’: perceptions and experiences of intimidation in the LMIC-based tobacco control community
- Peru: A Quarter of a Million Children in Lima Exposed to Cigarette Advertising Near School
Tobacco products remain the #1 preventable cause of death in the U.S. and around the world.
And the tobacco industry is fighting harder than ever to weaken public health policies and increase cigarette sales.
With your help, ASH can remain at the forefront to protect you and your loved ones from the harms caused by the tobacco industry. It’s grueling work, but it’s the only way to end the tobacco epidemic.
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