148 Organizations, Universities, and Cancer Centers Call for an End to Combustible Tobacco Sales
ASH and 147 organizations released an open letter calling on governments around the world to not only envision ending the tobacco epidemic but put in place concrete plans to make it happen. Not someday, or by 2050, or by 2100. We cannot simply burden future generations with an epidemic we can and should solve now. It’s time to go beyond only convincing people not to start or to quit smoking; we must remove the most dangerous consumer product in history from shelves.
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- ASH’s Advancing Momentum for a Tobacco-Free California website launched here
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- Statement from Elizabeth Furgurson, COO of ASH in Support of DC’s Bill to Ban Flavors in Tobacco Products
- How Big Tobacco’s targeting of Black communities lured generations into addiction
- Towards Quantifiable Metrics Warranting Industry-Wide Corporate Death Penalties
- Statements of Support for U.S. FDA to Ban Menthol
- Menthol Marketing Exposes Institutional Racism
- The Lancet: Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
- Ending Tobacco Farming Could Free Over 4 Million Hectares Across 120 Countries
- Unfairtobacco Factsheet Women have a right to a tobacco-free world
- Salud America!: Help Your City Adopt Smoke-Free Multifamily Housing!
- STOP Partners: The Dirt Behind Big Tobacco and the Environment
- FOX5 NY: Movement to ban sales of cigarettes heats up
Tobacco products remain the #1 preventable cause of death both in the U.S. and worldwide. In fact, last year, tobacco products killed more Americans than COVID-19 did.
The actions of the tobacco industry – selling a product that kills more than 8 million people every year and attacking governments all over the world when they try to pass life-saving legislation to reduce smoking – are an obstacle to social justice and our collective right to health.
With your help, ASH can remain extremely active in protecting all of us from the harm caused by the tobacco industry. We fight the tobacco industry on every front. It’s grueling work, but that’s the only way to end the tobacco epidemic.
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