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MDPI: Towards Quantifiable Metrics Warranting Industry-Wide Corporate Death Penalties

May 7, 2021

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Professor Joshua Pearce, the Richard Witte Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a Professor cross-appointed in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and in the Department of Electr...

Support For U.S. FDA’s Menthol Ban

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April 29, 2021

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There is vast global support for the U.S. to ban menthol cigarettes, as several countries have already done. The University of Bath’s Tobacco Tactics website lists all the other countries that have banne...

Joint Statement: The FDA Agrees to Ban Menthol, To Protect African Americans

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April 29, 2021

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The FDA Agrees to Ban Menthol, To Protect African Americans The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responds to a lawsuit filed by ASH, AATCLC, AMA, and NMA on Saving Black Lives WASHING...

Statement on FDA’s Response in Favor of Banning Menthol

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April 29, 2021

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Statement on FDA’s Response in Favor of Banning Menthol Statement of Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorney at Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) WASHINGTON, DC – April 29, 2021 –Today, we celebrate with all ...

97 Organizations Agree, UN Human Rights Committee Must Address Menthol

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April 21, 2021

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Media Contact: Megan Arendt arendtm@ash.org (202)390-9513 97 Organizations Agree, UN Human Rights Committee Must Address Menthol Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) leads 97 organizations from around the wo...

Tobacco Companies Racially Discriminate Against Minorities

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April 16, 2021

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Tobacco use disproportionately affects many marginalized populations, including racial and ethnic minorities, who have a long and documented history of being aggressively targeted by the tobacco industry. ...

The Impact of COVID-19 on ASH

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April 8, 2021

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Before COVID-19, ASH already had a flexible work environment where all staff were encouraged to have a work from home set up, complete with our main phone line forwarding to cell phones. So when the world went ...

Menthol Marketing Exposes Institutional Racism

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April 6, 2021

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Guest Blog Author: Michael Schwalbe, Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University When it comes to destroying Black lives, no modern American institution can match the tobacco industry. It is...

Tobacco Companies Violate Women’s Rights

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April 6, 2021

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Approximately 176 million adult women worldwide are daily smokers. In the U.S., 17.7 million females over the age of 15 are daily smokers, and 8.5% of girls in the U.S. age 15-19 smoke. Big tobacco specifi...

Another Legal Blow to Big Tobacco

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March 31, 2021

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On March 29, 2021, Judge Janis Sammartino of the U.S. District Court for Southern California dashed the hopes of R.J. Reynolds and other plaintiffs seeking to overturn San Diego’s ban on the sale of flavored to...

NAQC Newsroom: Impact of COVID-19 on tobacco cessation

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March 24, 2021

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Impact of COVID-19 on Tobacco Cessation Thursday, March 11, 2021 Every year, North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) analyzes data on quitline services and reports the results. "In calendar year 2020, ...

Global Competition: #MakeTobaccoPay

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March 22, 2021

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The Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, a partner of STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog launched its second Global Media Competition. This year’s theme, “Lies & Cover-Ups: Time to Ma...

Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber on International Women’s Day

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March 8, 2021

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Today is International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate the progress that’s been made for women’s rights around the world, and a day to call for much-needed change. Cigarette smoking among women is declining...

ASH Statement for the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)

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March 3, 2021

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Submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on March 3, 2021. ...

Monterey County Weekly: Cigarette advertising could bring in big dollars, but crosses a line.

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February 26, 2021

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Read Founding Editor & CEO of the Weekly Bradley Zeve's editorial on why they rejected a $100,000 tobacco industry advertising purchase order>...

TID: Educating the public and lawmakers about tobacco industry interference

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February 26, 2021

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Read our joint editorial in Tobacco Induced Diseases Journal here>...

WCTOH – Tobacco and Human Rights

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February 25, 2021

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Written by Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking & Health and WCTOH Advisory Board Member 25 February 2021 In addition to being a Development challenge, the tobacco epidemic is also i...

Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo – Webinar on Tobacco Endgame in Spain

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February 11, 2021

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ASH Webinar on Tobacco Endgame in Spain February 11, 2021 Statement from Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo, Head of the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Thank you for the o...

Why I Fight: For Regan and Paul

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February 4, 2021

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Author: Anita Renzetti, Project Director, Adult Cessation Services, Bay Area Community Resources, Inc. www.bacr.org @bacrdotorg My debonair partner Paul and I were engaged only one month when he was diagno...

Mil Gracias for Not Smoking Indoors during COVID-19—Lungs Can Only Take so Much!

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January 21, 2021

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Contact: Cliff Despres (210) 562-6517 despres@uthscsa.edu By choosing to not smoke indoors, a smoker deserves a thank-you for protecting their family, friends, and neighbors from secondhand smoke,...

ASH Statement: U.S. Rejoins the World Health Organization

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January 21, 2021

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Statement of Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health Washington, DC - January 21, 2021 - Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) applauds President Biden for rejoining the World Health Org...

WHO FCTC Head of the Secretariat Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo at the UN Human Rights Council

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January 15, 2021

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On January 14, 2021, Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo, Head of the FCTC Secretariat, presented to the UN Human Rights Council about the connections between tobacco, Covid-19, and the development agenda. Watch her pr...

Why Tobacco Still Matters

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January 13, 2021

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By: Chris Bostic, Policy Director at ASH January 12, 2021 Our national house is on fire. And it’s flooded. And it’s falling into a sinkhole. Focusing on a broken window right now would be ludicrous. The ...

“Virtually” Anything Is Possible: Anti-Tobacco & Anti-Vaping Instruction

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January 12, 2021

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By: Andrew Martin, School Health Supervisor and Physical Education Supervisor for the Germantown, Tennessee Municipal School District The Covid-19 pandemic has done no favors to the world of educat...

Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California Make History for Public Health

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January 5, 2021

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Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California Make History for Public Health Their Ordinances to Ban the Sale of Commercial Tobacco are in Effect Today Media Contact: Megan Arendt (202) 390 – 9513 SACRAMEN...