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Joint Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General

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July 19, 2019

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Secretary General António Guterres 19 July 2019 United Nations, S-233 New York, NY 10027 D...

Uruguay Wins Its Tobacco Case Against Philip Morris International

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July 8, 2016

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Arendt Office: 202-659-4310 Email: arendtm@ash.org STATEMENT BY LAURENT HUBER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH Uruguay Wins Its Tobacco Case...

A growing gulf in the terrain of tobacco control

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June 1, 2016

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The theme for World No Tobacco Day on May 31, an annual initiative of WHO and the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), is plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging prohi...

Can Poor Countries Combat Big Tobacco Too?

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June 1, 2016

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This year for World No Tobacco Day on May 31 the World Health Organization has recommended that countries adopt plain packaging as a way to reduce tobacco use, however so far mostly only rich countries have bee...

ASH Statement of Support for Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA)

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May 25, 2016

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ASH Statement of Support for Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a Washington, DC based non-governmental organization fully devoted to supporting gl...

Kids Overexposed to Cigarettes in Video Games

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January 15, 2016

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Hundreds of video games come out every year. Avid gamers have at least 326 news ones to look forward to in 2016. If previous years are any indication, many of these games will contain images of cigarette...

50 Years of Tobacco Control

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January 31, 2014

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Check out the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's interactive online exhibit highlighting milestones of the last 50 years in tobacco control since the release of the first Surgeon General's Report on smoking and h...

U.S. surgeon general calls for end of tobacco epidemic

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January 17, 2014

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(Reuters) - Fifty years after the first U.S. surgeon general's report declared smoking a hazard to human health, the tally of smoking-related effects keeps rising, with liver and colorectal cancers, diabetes, r...

Surgeon General report says 5.6 million U.S. children will die prematurely unless current smoking rates drop

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January 17, 2014

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Report also finds cigarette smoking causes diabetes and colorectal cancer Approximately 5.6 million American children alive today – or one out of every 13 children under age 18 – will die prematurely from sm...

Surgeon General Tobacco Initiaive

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January 17, 2014

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January 11, 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health. The 1964 landmark report, released by Surgeon General Dr. Luther Terry, was the first federal government...

New Surgeon General’s Report Shows Cigarettes Are More Deadly Today than 50 Years Ago

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January 17, 2014

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Statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Jan. 17 2014 WASHINGTON, DC – Fifty years after the first Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health, the new Surgeon General...

50th Anniversary Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health

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January 17, 2014

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Click here to read the Surgeon General Report : The Health Consequences of Smoking —50 Years of Progress >...