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International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

August 8, 2023

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By Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, ASH and Dr. Raglan Maddox, ANU College of Health and Medicine While commercial tobacco use negatively impacts the right to health of all people, there are many groups whom have been i...

208 Organizations Unite to Call on UN Committee to Recommend Stronger Tobacco Control Policies

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August 8, 2023

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Media Contact: Megan Manning ManningM@ash.org (202) 390 – 9513 208 Organizations Unite to Call on UN Committee to Recommend Stronger Tobacco Control Policies The UN Committee on the Elimination of all for...

Fighting for your Right to Health | CERD Day 2023

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March 20, 2023

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Our goal at ASH is to protect everyone from the harms of tobacco. One way we strive to achieve that goal is by reducing health inequities and fighting for everyone’s right to health. In honor of International ...

International Women’s Day 2023 | Tobacco’s Impact on Women

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March 6, 2023

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Today, 200 million of the world’s one billion people who smoke are women and 2.15 million women die from tobacco use every year. Over 71% of those women live in low- and middle-income countries, where the burde...

Tobacco Impedes Social Justice

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February 17, 2023

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Public health, and more specifically tobacco control, sits at the vortex of many important social issues such as development, human rights, law, and social justice. Tobacco companies have been aggressively t...

ASH’s Ongoing Work at CERD

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September 6, 2022

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September 2022 – This year, many people and organizations have focused their energy on social justice, and ASH is no exception. As you may know, this summer, ASH led 120 organizations in submitting a report ...

Human Rights Day 2020

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December 9, 2020

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Happy Human Rights Day! December 10th is International Human Rights Day, in observation of the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This landmark document s...

Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy – Webinar on WHO FCTC Article 19: Using the Judicial System to Fight Tobacco

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November 10, 2020

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ASH Webinar on WHO FCTC Article 19: Using the Judicial System to Fight Tobacco November 10, 2020 Statement from Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorney at ASH Article 19: How it has been utilized, how...

ASH & AATCLC File Lawsuit Against FDA

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June 17, 2020

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This press release was re-issued on September 3rd and December 3rd, 2020 with the addition of the American Medical Association (AMA) and National Medical Association (NMA) as a co-plantiffs. See the latest news...

Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy – Webinar on Endgame for Tobacco: The World We Want

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June 11, 2020

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ASH Webinar on Endgame for Tobacco: The World We Want June 11, 2020 Statement from Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorney at ASH I wanted to give you all a quick overview of the tobacco treaty- the Framework...

No Legal Right to Smoke

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March 5, 2019

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In our work, we spend a lot of time arguing for people’s rights. The right to be free from targeted advertising by the tobacco industry. The right to access cessation products. The right to be free from sec...

FINALLY! Corrective Ads Published!

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November 20, 2017

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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 ...

Human Rights Day 2016

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December 7, 2016

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December 10th is recognized worldwide as Human Rights Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. T...

We must protect our health gains

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December 2, 2016

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What will the next four years hold for the anti-tobacco movement in the U.S.? We can't say for sure, and if the recent track record of pollsters tells us anything, it is that concrete political predictions are ...

What if Tobacco Vanished?

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December 2, 2016

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Cigarettes have been commercially marketed and sold in the United States for over 100 years. The negative health effects of tobacco have been public knowledge for at least the last 50 years. The death and disea...

RJ Reynolds Can’t Make Up Its Mind

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October 31, 2016

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In California, RJ Reynolds is spending millions to prevent a new tax on cigarettes. But in Missouri, RJ Reynolds is spending millions to promote a new tax on cigarettes. Tobacco taxes are proven to prevent kid...

ASH Environmental Webinar Recap

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September 30, 2016

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When we think of tobacco, a lot of health issues immediately spring to mind – lung cancer, throat cancer, cardiovascular disease, tooth decay, asthma. But tobacco products also wreak havoc on our environment, a...

No Safe Use of Tobacco

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July 15, 2016

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Tasmania, an Australian island off the Southern coast, is considering an historic step for tobacco control. The Legislative Council is currently considering a proposal called Tobacco Free Generation (TFG), whic...

Earth Day 2016

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April 22, 2016

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The harmful impacts of smoking go well beyond each individual smoker. Cigarettes have a negative impact on the environment throughout their entire life cycle - from growing the tobacco to disposing of the butts...

Human Rights Day 2015

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December 8, 2015

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December 10th is recognized worldwide as Human Rights Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. T...

Criminal Cases about Consumer Products

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December 2, 2015

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The tobacco epidemic continues to spread around the world. Tobacco is unique – no other product kills half of its consumers when used exactly as intended. If tobacco products were released as new products today...

ASH 2015 Tobacco Criminal Liability and Tobacco & Human Rights Report Card

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November 16, 2015

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ASH’s tobacco criminal liability program was created to investigate the possibility of holding tobacco corporations and their executives criminally liable for the millions of tobacco-related deaths. The tobacco...

International Day of the Girl

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October 8, 2015

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In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly declared October 11 as the International Day of the Girl, to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges that girls face around the world. Girls and women arou...

What does peanut butter have to do with tobacco?

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September 21, 2015

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Recently, a landmark case was decided in federal court in Georgia. The subject of the case? Peanut butter. The Peanut Butter Case: United States of America vs. Stewart Parnell From 2008-2009, there was an out...

A Victory for Standardized Packaging

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June 23, 2015

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Earlier this month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released figures showing that tobacco and cigarette consumption in Australia have dropped dramatically. Household tobacco consumption and expenditure volu...