Tobacco Companies Violate Children’s Human Rights
Every day, tobacco companies are violating children’s right to health, right to a healthy environment, and right to be free from racial discrimination. Governments have a duty to protect those basic human rights. Read how we can stand together to ensure all children’s rights are upheld in the ASH and Unfair Tobacco Report, Protecting Children from the Tobacco Industry: Using Human Rights Standards and Mechanisms to Protect Children from the Tobacco Industry. Read more>
ASH NEWS
- World Environment Day: Banning Cigarette Filters to Save Lives and the Planet
- Tobacco Companies Violate Children’s Human Rights
- 1st National Tobacco Endgame Summit
- Tobacco Industry Expands Lobbying Efforts in the U.S. in 2024
- UN Plastics Treaty Negotiations Move Forward with Strong Support for Banning Cigarette Filters
- Biden Administration Bows to Tobacco Industry with New Delay on Menthol Cigarette Ban
- Synopsis of INC-4 of the UN Negotiations for a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution: What about Cigarette Filters?
- Planet vs Plastics | Earth Day 2024
- Health Groups File Second Lawsuit Against the US FDA
TOBACCO NEWS
- US Urges Dismissal of Lawsuit Demanding Menthol Cigarette Ban
- FDA OKs first menthol e-cigarettes, citing potential to help adult smokers
- Judge rules Ohio law that keeps cities from banning flavored tobacco is unconstitutional
- UK lawmakers back landmark ‘smoke-free generation’ bill
- Government to approve legislation to raise minimum age to legally buy tobacco products to 21
- World moving forward on the smokefree generation – Aotearoa NZ goes backwards
- How Black activists became defenders of Big Tobacco
- Revealed: Big Tobacco’s campaign to undermine UK generational smoking ban
- New MEP White Paper Spotlighting Shadowy Big Tobacco Influence in Brussels
- Smoking in cars with kids is banned in 11 states, and West Virginia could be next
- Urged on by LGBTQ+ Activists, California Cities Weigh Stricter Smoking Rules
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