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Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates

ASH’s “Smoke Alarms” blog is written by the members of ASH’s legal team to keep you up to date on legal news in the tobacco control field. We focus on topics that relate directly to our programs including trade, development, human rights, and criminal liability. Please feel free to comment or send us an email (info@ash.org) to suggest a topic.

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Tobacco Free Generation

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April 9, 2015
Blog, Featured News & Events, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates
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 gen...
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Increasing the Minimum Age

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February 5, 2015
Blog, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates
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 ...
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Legal Victories in U.S. Tobacco Control 2014

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December 29, 2014
Blog, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates
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 ...
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Legal Victories in International Tobacco Control 2014

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December 16, 2014
Blog, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates
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 fo...
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Tobacco Deaths & Taxes

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September 30, 2014
Blog, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates
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 ...
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FDA ‘Deeming’ Update

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August 12, 2014
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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...
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Massive punitive damages against tobacco company in wrongful death suit.

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July 21, 2014
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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 ...
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New York Victory: Court Upholds Law to Prohibit Tobacco Discounts

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July 14, 2014
Blog, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates
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...
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Tobacco Apology Ads Will Only Run In 13 Black Newspapers

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June 9, 2014
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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...
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Tobacco Companies Rejected by High Court on Florida Suits

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June 9, 2014
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected efforts by the tobacco industry to derail thousands of Florida smoker lawsuits, leaving intact 11 awards totaling more than $70 million. Full Article>...
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Earth Day: Kicking Butts Out of US

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April 21, 2014
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Cigarette butts are the most littered item worldwide. Smokers litter cigarette butts rather than disposing of them properly 65% of the time, which results in approximately 845,000 tons (1.69 BILLION pounds) of ...
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Nigerian Court Upholds Seizure of Cigarettes without Warning Labels

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April 1, 2014
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A Federal High Court in Nigeria recently upheld the power of Nigeria’s Consumer Protection Council (CPC) to impound products considered to be harmful or that constitute a health hazard to the unsuspecting Niger...
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6 States to Lose out on $500 million from tobacco settlement?

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March 17, 2014
Blog, Featured News & Events, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates
The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement, the largest civil litigation settlement in U.S. history, dramatically changed tobacco control in the United States. The settlement, between the major tobacco companies (Phi...
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Should Tobacco Marketing be Illegal?

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February 24, 2014
Blog, News & Events, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates
This January marked the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon’s General report on Smoking and Health. On that anniversary, a new Surgeon General’s report, The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progre...
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Should e-cigarettes be considered tobacco products?

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January 14, 2014
Blog, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates
Since e-cigarettes hit the market, they have been the subject of intense debate. Are electronic cigarettes a cessation tool or an alternative smoking device? Should they be subject to the same smoke-free air la...
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If Drug Dealers Can be Found Criminally Liable, Can Big Tobacco?

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December 4, 2013
Blog, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates
Last month, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the case of Burrage v. United States. The case focuses on a federal law that requires a mandatory sentence for a drug dealer if “death or serious injury” resul...
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