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 ...
Human Rights Day 2016
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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 butt...
Human Rights Day 2015
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
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 toda...
ASH 2015 Tobacco Criminal Liability and Tobacco & Human Rights Report Card
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
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?
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
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...
Tobacco & Human Rights in Latin America
An article written by ASH Staff Attorney Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy was recently published in the American Bar Association’s “International Law News.” The article discusses the growing problem of tobacco use in Latin...
#StopMarlboro
Marlboro’s “Be Marlboro” campaign is in the news again - this time because of a copyright claim.
#JeffWeCan Flash Mob in Times Square
Since 2011, Philip Morris International (PMI), which owns the Marlbo...
Tobacco Free Generation
In Tasmania, Australia last week, a bill was introduced to the Legislative Council that would create a “Tobacco Free Generation.” You can read the draft text of the bill here>.
The phrase tobacco free g...
Increasing the Minimum Age
In the past few years, several localities have increased the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21. The first to increase the minimum sales age to 21 was Needham, MA, a suburb of Boston, in 2005. Following ...
Legal Victories in U.S. Tobacco Control 2014
Several cities raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21
Increasing the minimum age is very important because 95% of smokers start by their early twenties. The cities that have taken this ...
Legal Victories in International Tobacco Control 2014
Philip Morris International was fined in Brazil for targeting youth
The consumer protection agency from the Brazilian state of São Paulo has fined Philip Morris over $480,000. The agency acted after a f...
Tobacco Deaths & Taxes
In the past, the United States has been a leader in tobacco control. For the last 15 years, though, the U.S. has been falling behind as other countries have moved to protect their people from tobacco addiction ...
FDA ‘Deeming’ Update
More organizations have revealed thecomments that they submitted to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on whether certain tobacco products should fall under the agency's authority.
Aug. 8 was the de...
Massive punitive damages against tobacco company in wrongful death suit.
MIAMI — A jury in northwestern Florida awarded a staggering $23 billion judgment late Friday against the country’s second-largest tobacco company for causing the death of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer ...
New York Victory: Court Upholds Law to Prohibit Tobacco Discounts
In 2013, New York City passed a law (Local Law 1021-A-2013) that sets a minimum price for cigarettes sold in the city. The law also prohibits the use of coupons or promotional discounts to lower that price. Tob...
Tobacco Apology Ads Will Only Run In 13 Black Newspapers
A ruling has finally been made on the plan submitted by tobacco companies to place ads that apologize for misleading the public about the dangers of smoking. Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court sai...