RJ Reynolds Can’t Make Up Its Mind
In California, RJ Reynolds is spending millions to prevent a new tax on cigarettes. But in Missouri, RJ Reynolds is spending millions to promote a new tax on cigarettes. Tobacco taxes are proven to prevent kid...
U.S. Campaign Contributions 2016
The tobacco epidemic is a huge public health problem. Almost 600,000 Americans die every year from tobacco related diseases. This death and disease is perpetrated by the tobacco industry, in exchange for profit...
ASH Environmental Webinar Recap
When we think of tobacco, a lot of health issues immediately spring to mind – lung cancer, throat cancer, cardiovascular disease, tooth decay, asthma. But tobacco products also wreak havoc on our environment, a...
Tobacco 21: Campaign Case Study
This case study is intended as a teaching device for municipalities that are just getting started or have already begun working to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21.
Read the Case Stud...
Is Vaping Bad For You? Is It Safe? Experts Weigh In
Laurent Huber, Executive Director of ASH:
Combustible tobacco products like cigarettes are extremely toxic, killing approximately 6 million people per year. Given that cigarettes are so ridiculously toxic, ...
10th Anniversary of Landmark Ruling
On August 17, 2006, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued an historic ruling. Nearly 7 years after the case was first filed, Judge Kessler issued an opinion that found that the tobacco industry had fraudule...
Who really won the legal battle between Philip Morris and Uruguay?
The David-Goliath battle between Uruguay and Philip Morris is an iconic case because it so clearly illustrates the way corporations can use international investment treaties to attack regulations made in the pu...
WHO Resources on NCDs
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking to better assist progress toward the non-communicable disease (NCD) reduction targets endorsed by governments in order to reduce premature death from the four majo...
No Safe Use of Tobacco
Tasmania, an Australian island off the Southern coast, is considering an historic step for tobacco control. The Legislative Council is currently considering a proposal called Tobacco Free Generation (TFG), whic...
Age to buy tobacco in Chicago increasing to 21 this week
CHICAGO (AP) — The minimum age in Chicago for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products goes up to 21 at the end of the week.
The city on Friday joins about 170 local jurisdictions around the country that...
Imperial Tobacco’s Global Director of Corporate Affairs on Plain Packaging
Listen to the radio segment here>
Watch a different news segment with the same Imperial Tobacco employee here>...
Bill to raise legal smoking age to 21 in Guam passes
Guam lawmakers Friday passed legislation aimed at curbing the island’s rate of tobacco users by increasing the minimum age to purchase tobacco-related products, and electronic cigarettes, to 21.
Read more&g...
World No Tobacco Day: Taking Steps to Save Lives
By: Jimmy Kolker, HHS Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs
Summary:
Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States.
This May 31st, we celebrate World No Toba...
Tony Gwynn’s Family Sues Tobacco Industry, Seeking Recourse Over Fatal Habit
The family of Tony Gwynn, a baseball Hall of Famer who died of salivary gland cancer in 2014, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Monday against the tobacco industry, charging that Gwynn had been manipulated into th...
Insurer AXA to pull out of tobacco investments
French insurer AXA plans to stop investing in the tobacco industry, citing the impact of smoking on public health, and said it plans to sell its 1.8 billion euros ($2.02 billion) of assets in the sector.
AXA...
June 2016: Matching Campaign
Help ASH participate in the 7th round of the tobacco treaty negotiations in India this November. Every donation made from June 1 - 30, 2016 will be matched by a private donor, up to $2,000.
Building on...
Tobacco Firms Lose Court Challenge Over Packaging
The tobacco industry lost its High Court challenge to the UK government's regulations on standardised "plain" cigarette packaging.
Read more>...
Justices turn down Philip Morris appeal of $25M judgment
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected Philip Morris USA’s appeal of a $25 million punitive damages award to the family of a dead smoker in Oregon.
The justices on Monday are leaving in place a state ap...
Cancer Council chief calls for a smoke free future
Cancer Council fully supports proposals to ban smoking in the presence of children, and has asked whether it’s time to actively consider a generational phase-out of cigarettes.
Read more>...
We Agree: Put Big Tobacco out of business
The embattled tobacco industry is struggling to fight off one of its fiercest and possibly most dangerous foes to date: the World Health Organization.
The Hong Kong native who has run the U.N. body for the p...
New, sweeping federal rules bar e-cigarette sales to teens younger than 18
The Obama administration on Thursday announced controversial new rules for electronic cigarettes, cigars, hookahs and pipe tobacco, including barring the sales of the products to teens under 18 years old.
Th...
Dutch lawyer starts criminal case against tobacco firms
A Dutch lawyer and lung cancer patient are planning to take tobacco companies to court for for producing cigarettes designed to turn people into addicts as quickly as possible.
Lawyer Benedicte Ficq and canc...
Earth Day 2016
The harmful impacts of smoking go well beyond each individual smoker. Cigarettes have a negative impact on the environment throughout their entire life cycle - from growing the tobacco to disposing of the butt...
Are E-Cigarettes a Healthy Way to Quit Smoking?
Supporters say they appear to be effective. Critics say there are better and safer ways to quit smoking.
Read both sides in the Wall Street Journal here>...