FINALLY! Corrective Ads Published!
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**UPDATE 3** - Beginning on November 26, 2017 the public will begin seeing long-awaited “corrective statements” by the tobacco industry on television and in newspapers.
The major U.S. tobacco companies were ...
Keynote from Sharon Eubanks at ASH’s 50th Anniversary Event
Sharon Eubanks, Former Department of Justice attorney who lead the RICO lawsuit
Friends, Deputy Chief Baluga: It is an honor to be asked to say a few words on the occasion of ASH’s 50th Anniversary.
Over ...
Report on 50 Years
Contact: Megan Arendt
(202) 659 – 4310
arendtm@ash.org
A Future with ZERO Tobacco Deaths
ASH Releases Report on 50 Years of Fighting
Click to read the report
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 26, 2017 –...
Action Review: Third Quarter Edition 2017
Open Letter to PMI from 123 Organizations
Since this campaign launched in mid-September, we’ve continued to receive additional sign-ons from organizations demanding that Philip Morris International i...
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber on new PMI Foundation
On September 13, a new chapter in the struggle against tobacco began with a surprise announcement. Philip Morris International, a multinational giant and marketer of Marlboro, the world's most popular cigarette...
95 Health Groups to Philip Morris International: Stop Selling Cigarettes
WASHINGTON, D.C. – SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 – Today, 95 organizations from around the globe published an open letter to Philip Morris International (PMI) demanding that they immediately cease the production, marketin...
Open Letter to PMI from 123 Organizations
September 14, 2017
André Calantzopoulos
Chief Executive Officer
Philip Morris International
Avenue de Rhodanie 50 1007
Lausanne, Switzerland
Dear Mr. Calantzopoulos,
The undersign...
Philip Morris International Pretends to Care
Philip Morris International announced today that they have pledged $1 billion to work towards a smoke-free world. Some are inclined to greet this announcement with applause; but this venture should instead be v...
Action Review: Second Quarter Edition 2017
ASH hosted a legal expert group in Geneva
For the first time, an international meeting was held to spread knowledge between the U.S., our colleagues in the Netherlands, and 16 other countries on criminal liabi...
Tobacco Industry Accused of Murder: Criminal Case Against Tobacco Industry, ASH reports
Action on Smoking & Health Draws on “Sick of Smoking’s” Current Legal Challenge Against Tobacco Companies in the Netherlands to Highlight Criminal Liability
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tuesday, July 18, 2017 – ...
The U.S. Is Not Living Up to Its Obligation to Protect the Health of Its Citizens
All countries around the world, including the United States, have committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to strengthen universal peace and ...
Health in eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity in a changing world
Joint statement from health organizations here>...
2016 Annual Report
ASH recognizes Big Tobacco as the vector of the tobacco epidemic, and we work on several fronts to counter attack their deadly products.
Read our 2016 Annual Report about how our programs progressed in 2016 a...
New Report: Tobacco in America
Americans’ Health Ranks 43rd Globally, Despite Spending Most on Healthcare
Read the Full Report
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) unveils report results, demonstrating that large disparities in tobacc...
The world’s largest tobacco company wanted good press – but it backfired
Re-printed as an English translation with permission from Buzzfeed Germany, original article in German here.
Stop producing or marketing tobacco! This is what an Institute for Human Rights has recommended to ...
Tobacco Production, Marketing Violate Basic Human Rights
Action on Smoking and Health and Unfairtobacco agree with the Danish Institute of Human Rights (DIHR) that Philip Morris International (PMI) should cease “the production and marketing of tobacco.”
Read the...
PMI Befriends Human Rights Org
Read the Press Release that followed this campaign.
Read the sign-on letter to PMI that followed that press release, where 123 organizations in 40+ countries call on Philip Morris International to immediatel...
Letter to NYC Council
Honorable Corey Johnson, Chair, Health Committee, New York City Council
City Hall, New York, NY 10007
April 25, 2017
Dear Mr. Johnson:
I am writing to support the proposed tobacco legislation that w...
For an Earth Free of Tobacco Waste
By Yogi Hale Hendlin, PhD, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UCSF
We all know tobacco kills. But few stop to consider how tobacco also kills the planet.
Especially as it serves no socia...
Hold the Tobacco Industry Responsible for Harming our Global Environment
By Clif Curtis
For decades now, with cigarette sales having increased to more than six trillion in 2016, tobacco producers have refused to accept any significant responsibility for the serious, global enviro...
Trump Administration Ties to Big Tobacco
Smoking has been banned on airplanes since 1990. In California -the first state to implement a smoke-free air law - workplaces, bars, and restaurants have been smoke-free since 1998. There haven’t been tobacco ...
International Labour Organization to Consider Severing Ties with the Tobacco Industry
Responding to Mounting Pressure, UN Agency Forced to Address Conflict of Interest
Washington, D.C.—March 14, 2017 – On Wednesday, March 15th, the International Labour Organization (ILO) will vote on whether to...
Tobacco control: saving lives and driving development
Tobacco use poses an unparalleled health and economic burden worldwide. A new study found that the diseases caused by smoking account for US$ 422 billion in health care expenditures annually, representing almo...
Business groups, once tobacco-friendly, switch sides in fight
"Smoking isn't just killing us, it's bankrupting us," said Ashli Watts, a spokeswoman with the Chamber of Commerce for Kentucky, where one in four adults uses tobacco, the lung cancer rate is the nation's highe...
Federal tobacco control is at risk in the US
The man Donald Trump has chosen to direct health policy for the federal government has close ties to the tobacco industry he will be charged with regulating. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who was confirmed as health...