Hidden Costs: The Economic Burden of Cigarette Smoking on U.S. Healthcare Spending
Author: Gabrielle Ballweg, ASH Human Rights Policy and Communications Intern
Arguably the most compelling justification for permitting cigarette sa...
Opposing Goals: The Tobacco Industry vs. Public Health
Author: Vivienne Brandt, ASH Policy and Communications Intern
In 2003, the World Health Organization concluded negotiations of the Framework Conven...
2020 Annual Report
Click here to read our 2020 Annual Report
The year 2020 brought much needed attention to social justice, and placed the right to health front and ...
The Tobacco Industry’s Impact on Child Exploitation Globally
Author: Mitch Schuster, ASH Policy and Communications Intern
The tobacco industry is frequently criticized for its product’s harmful effects on glo...
Huber Statement: Brookline, MA Becomes 1st City in the U.S. to Ban Tobacco Sales to Anyone Born in the 21st Century
Statement from Laurent Huber, Executive Director,
Action on Smoking and Health
Brookline, MA Becomes 1st City in the U.S. to Ban Tobacco Sales to An...
Letter: 148 Organizations Call for Phasing Out Sales of Combustible Tobacco Products
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148 Organizations Call for Phasing Out Sales of Combustible Tobacco Products
The lessons learned in 2020 from the bold actions taken to address t...
Report: Cessation, The Right to Health
Access to Smoking Cessation Support is a Human Right
ASH and ICTC Release a Report in Advance of World No Tobacco Day, May 31st
Contact: Megan Arend...
MDPI: Towards Quantifiable Metrics Warranting Industry-Wide Corporate Death Penalties
Professor Joshua Pearce, the Richard Witte Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a Professor cross-appointed in the Department of Materia...
Joint Statement: The FDA Agrees to Ban Menthol, To Protect African Americans
The FDA Agrees to Ban Menthol, To Protect African Americans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responds to a lawsuit filed by ASH, AAT...
97 Organizations Agree, UN Human Rights Committee Must Address Menthol
Media Contact:
Megan Arendt
arendtm@ash.org
(202)390-9513
97 Organizations Agree, UN Human Rights Committee Must Address Menthol
Action on Smokin...
Tobacco Companies Racially Discriminate Against Minorities
Tobacco use disproportionately affects many marginalized populations, including racial and ethnic minorities, who have a long and documented histor...
The Impact of COVID-19 on ASH
Before COVID-19, ASH already had a flexible work environment where all staff were encouraged to have a work from home set up, complete with our main p...
Menthol Marketing Exposes Institutional Racism
Guest Blog Author: Michael Schwalbe, Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University
When it comes to destroying Black lives, no modern A...
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 se...
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber on International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate the progress that’s been made for women’s rights around the world, and a day to call for much-...
ASH Statement for the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)
Submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on March 3, 2021.
...
WCTOH – Tobacco and Human Rights
Written by Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking & Health and WCTOH Advisory Board Member
25 February 2021
In addition to b...
Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo – Webinar on Tobacco Endgame in Spain
ASH Webinar on Tobacco Endgame in Spain
February 11, 2021
Statement from Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo, Head of the Secretariat of the WHO Framework C...
Why I Fight: For Regan and Paul
Author: Anita Renzetti, Project Director, Adult Cessation Services, Bay Area Community Resources, Inc.
www.bacr.org @bacrdotorg
My debonair partn...
Mil Gracias for Not Smoking Indoors during COVID-19—Lungs Can Only Take so Much!
Contact: Cliff Despres
(210) 562-6517
despres@uthscsa.edu
By choosing to not smoke indoors, a smoker deserves a thank-you for protecting...
ASH Statement: U.S. Rejoins the World Health Organization
Statement of Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health
Washington, DC - January 21, 2021 - Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)...
WHO FCTC Head of the Secretariat Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo at the UN Human Rights Council
On January 14, 2021, Dr. Adriana Blanco Marquizo, Head of the FCTC Secretariat, presented to the UN Human Rights Council about the connections between...
Why Tobacco Still Matters
By: Chris Bostic, Policy Director at ASH
January 12, 2021
Our national house is on fire. And it’s flooded. And it’s falling into a sinkhole. Focus...
“Virtually” Anything Is Possible: Anti-Tobacco & Anti-Vaping Instruction
By: Andrew Martin, School Health Supervisor and Physical Education Supervisor for the Germantown, Tennessee Municipal School District
The...
End of 2020 Message from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber
In February 2020, Kelsey and I had the honor of presenting the human rights dimensions of the tobacco epidemic at the European Conference on Tobacco ...