Today, May 21, 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the adoption of The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) by the World Health Assem...
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...
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 wom...
Public health, and more specifically tobacco control, sits at the vortex of many important social issues such as development, human rights, law, and s...
February 4th is World Cancer Day. Cancer is the second largest cause of death worldwide, and smoking is the leading cause, directly responsible for 30...
ASH’s work is based on the principle that the behavior of the tobacco industry – producing, marketing, and selling addictive products that kill when u...
NEW YORK CITY, NY - DECEMBER 8, 2022 - Action on Smoking and Health awarded the Project Sunset Award for Courage in Public Health to Christopher K. Le...
The Stop Tobacco Pollution Alliance (STPA) is a global coalition of 101 public health organizations, listed below, who recognize the crucial interse...