Action Review: Third Quarter Edition 2020 Grayn October 9, 2020 E-Newsletter In August, ASH welcomed a new staffer to the team, Carol Maytum (pictured top right). She is based out of Sacramento, California and gives us boots on the ground for the West Coast! Carol is a veteran tobacco...
Action Review: Second Quarter Edition 2020 Grayn July 22, 2020 E-Newsletter This June, ASH joined forces with the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC) and Pollock Cohen LLP to sue the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over their inaction on menthol cigarettes...
Action Review: First Quarter Edition 2020 Grayn January 20, 2020 E-Newsletter On Thursday, April 2, 2020, ASH hosted a live webinar with Dr. Carolyn Dresler to address the nexus between the tobacco epidemic, human rights and the coronavirus. The discussion focused on the additional r...
Action Review: Fourth Quarter Edition 2019 Grayn December 20, 2019 E-Newsletter Tobacco companies interfere in more places than anyone realizes. “The tobacco industry has been lurking in the shadows of U.S. public health policy for decades. They not only sell deadly products; they figh...
Action Review: Third Quarter Edition 2019 Grayn September 20, 2019 E-Newsletter What’s happening with the U.S. Vaping Crisis? And why isn’t the media discussing cigarettes too? On August 23, 2019, the 1st death from vaping was reported in the U.S. Since then, the CDC and FDA have been wo...
Action Review: First Quarter Edition 2019 Grayn January 1, 2019 E-Newsletter ASH’s Global Forum on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World, co-hosted by the Romanian Presidency, The European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP), and Romania 2035 Tobacco-Free Generation Initi...
Action Review: Fourth Quarter Edition 2018 ash December 20, 2018 E-Newsletter How the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights impacts tobacco For the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), ASH Deputy Director for Policy Chris Bostic...
Action Review: Third Quarter Edition 2018 ash October 19, 2018 E-Newsletter Over 100 Towns in Sri Lanka Stop Cigarette Sales Over 100 towns across Sri Lanka have boycotted the sale of cigarettes with an aim to discourage smoking and making Sri Lanka a tobacco-free nation, the Health M...
Action Review: Second Quarter Edition 2018 ash July 6, 2018 E-Newsletter, News & Events How Many Preventable Deaths Are Acceptable? The Answer Must Be Zero. For World No Tobacco Day, our Executive Director Laurent Huber shared a statement reminding us why we fight for a world free from tobacco ...
Action Review: First Quarter Edition 2018 ash April 10, 2018 E-Newsletter, News & Events 1 Tobacco as a Human Rights Violation If you didn’t see it this past week, here’s our video explaining tobacco as a human rights violation. With yesterday being World Health Day, the timing couldn’t be more idea...
Action Review: Fourth Quarter Edition 2017 ash December 14, 2017 E-Newsletter Let’s Get Rid of Cigarettes “In the 21st century, society is facing numerous public health challenges to which researchers are still searching for solutions. We must unite to end the tobacco epidemic which has...
Action Review: Third Quarter Edition 2017 ash October 20, 2017 E-Newsletter 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...
Action Review: Second Quarter Edition 2017 ash July 20, 2017 E-Newsletter, News & Events 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...
Action Review: 4th Quarter 2016 ash December 16, 2016 E-Newsletter, Featured News & Events U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber at HHS Statement from ASH on E-Cigarettes Following the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy ...
Action Review: 3rd Quarter 2016 ash September 22, 2016 E-Newsletter, News & Events Uruguay’s Victory Over Philip Morris Will Change the World After more than six years of litigation, the International Centre for Investment Disputes found against Philip Morris Internatio...
Action Review: 2nd Quarter 2016 ash June 5, 2016 E-Newsletter, News & Events Just Released: ASH Annual Report 2015 “In the nearly 50 years since ASH started taking action, 2015 stands out as one of our most successful. I truly believe that we have turned a corner, and that victory,...
Action Review: 1st Quarter Edition 2016 ash May 20, 2016 E-Newsletter, News & Events BAT PETITION Thank you all for your support of our joint petition in January. This week, ASH joined allies (Corporate Accountability International, Public Citizen, & International Labor Rights Forum) to ...
Action Review: 1st Quarter Edition 2015 ash April 10, 2015 E-Newsletter Tobacco and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The inclusion of tobacco control in the Sustainable Development Goals has been in the works for several years. It is due to various advocacy efforts of the...
Action Review: 2nd Quarter Edition 2014 ash July 13, 2014 E-Newsletter, Featured News & Events, News & Events What Makes Tobacco Different? In recognition of the World Health Organization’s World No Tobacco Day on May 31, 2014, Action on Smoking and Health certified 193 Senators and Representatives “Free from Tobac...
Action Review: 1st Quarter Edition 2014 ash April 4, 2014 E-Newsletter, News & Events ASH Marks the 50th Anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report January 11, 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health. The original report revealed to th...
Action Review: 4th Quarter Edition 2013 ash December 16, 2013 E-Newsletter, News & Events Wishing You a Happy and Smoke-Free Holiday! As I sit to write this message, I cannot believe it has been over a decade since I joined ASH. So much has happened both internationally and right here a...
