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Tobacco Industry Lobbyists Undermine Public Health “There is an irreconcilable conflict between the goals of tobacco companies and the goals of public health,” said Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorney at ...

How to Sidestep Addiction and Save a Billion Lives | Tamu Green Ph.D. | TEDxFolsom “We have the expectation that consumer products that needlessly cause injury and death are never placed on the market, but wha...

ASH’s Impact in 2022 We are a small but mighty team, fighting back against the endless resources of Big Tobacco. The tobacco industry is working harder than ever to maintain their deadly grasp on their custome...

ASH’s Accomplishments in 2021 ASH’s work is based on the principle that the behavior of the tobacco industry – producing, marketing, and selling addictive products that kill when use as intended – violates h...

  2020 ASH Annual Report Released   The year 2020 brought much-needed attention to social justice and placed the right to health front and center in global public health. In a matter of months, w...

148 Organizations, Universities, and Cancer Centers Call for an End to Combustible Tobacco Sales ASH and 147 organizations released an open letter calling on governments around the world to not only envision...

Another Legal Blow to Big Tobacco 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 D...

As of January 1st, Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California, became the only jurisdictions in the U.S. to eliminate the sale of commercial tobacco, although other jurisdictions are seriously considering ...

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...

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...

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...

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...