ASH’s Impact in 2025
Building Toward the End of Tobacco Sales
Momentum is building toward a tobacco-free future, and the endgame movement is stronger than ever. Read ASH’s 2025 Impact to see which breakthroughs are changing the game.
ASH NEWS
- Blog: 2025 Reflection from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber
- Media: Nations Advance Global Health at WHO Tobacco Treaty Negotiations
- Key Decisions at COP11:
- Article 2.1 (Forward-Looking Measures) Decision
- Article 18 (Protection of the Environment) Decision
- Article 19 (Liability) Decision
- Mobilization of Resources Decision
- Blog: Daily Blogs from COP11 Start Here and End Here
- Media: Tobacco Industry Interference Reaches New Heights in U.S.
- Media: Statement from Laurent Huber on United Nations Political Declaration on NCDs at HLM4
- Blog: Momentum Builds as 26th US Jurisdiction passes Tobacco Endgame Policy
- Guest Blog: Building Youth Engagement through the Youth Advocacy Committee (Marin County)
- Blog: Embedding Human Rights in WHO FCTC Implementation
- Blog: How Big Tobacco Continues to Harm Women’s Health
- Guest Blog: Regional Steps Towards Progress: Insights from the 62nd Directing Council of PAHO/WHO, Spanish Translation
- Report: US Tobacco Industry Interference Index 2025
- Report: 2024 ASH Annual Report
TOBACCO NEWS
- General Practitioners Play a Key Role in Tobacco Control — in Just 1 Minute
- Research: Economics for Health Cigarette Tax Scorecard (4th edition)
- As few as 2 cigarettes per day linked to 50% increased risk of heart disease: Study
- Truth Initiative: New report finds more than half of top films in 2024 featured tobacco imagery
- The Examination: EU officials acted to aid tobacco giant abroad, documents show
- The Examination: Smoking costs countries billions in health care. Just two have forced tobacco companies to pay up.
- Māori smoking rates stall for the first time in over a decade
- British Museum ends ‘deeply troubling’ sponsorship from Japanese tobacco firm
- NEJM: The Epidemic of Tobacco Harms among People with Mental Health Conditions
- Nicotine pouches glamourized on social media, little talk about risks for youth, study finds
- ‘Utter hypocrisy’: tobacco firm lobbied against rules in Africa that are law in UK
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