Day 1 INC-2: Negotiations for the UN Treaty to End Plastic Pollution
ASH’s Policy Director Chris Bostic is attending the second Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) of the United Nations treaty to end pla...
20th Anniversary of the Adoption of the WHO FCTC
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...
The FDA’s Delay: One Year and Counting
If you could press a button and save lives, how long would you wait to press it? 1 minute? 1 hour? How about a day or a week? What about a year?
To...
Guest Blog: A Doctor and Tobacco Industry Whistleblower’s Take on Tobacco Endgame
As a surgeon for 21 years, I’ve seen the extensive, heartbreaking toll tobacco products take on the human body.
Smoking is the leading cause of pre...
Fighting for your Right to Health | CERD Day 2023
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...
International Women’s Day 2023 | Tobacco’s Impact on Women
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...
Tobacco Impedes Social Justice
Public health, and more specifically tobacco control, sits at the vortex of many important social issues such as development, human rights, law, and s...
Governments are getting serious about cancer. They’re starting with tobacco.
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...
Plastic Pollution INC Stakeholders Meeting | ASH Statement
Oral statement | Action on Smoking and Health | January 31, 2023
Proposed Objective:
To protect future generations from the environmental, health ...
End of 2022 Message from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber
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The year 2022 has seen incredible milestones when it comes to taking measures to protect our collective right to health and right ...
ASH’s Accomplishments in 2022
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...
A Global First: New Zealand Passes Tobacco Endgame Bill Package
A Global First: New Zealand Passes Tobacco Endgame Bill Package
Changing the Course of the Tobacco Epidemic for the World
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Megan Mann...
Christopher K. Leung Receives Project Sunset Award for Courage in Public Health
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...
Synopsis and Prospects: UN Plastics Pollution Treaty Negotiations
ASH's Policy Director Chris Bostic attended the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Conference (INC-1) of the United Nations treaty to end plastic...
Day 4: UN Plastics Pollution Treaty Negotiations
ASH's Policy Director Chris Bostic is attending the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Conference (INC-1) of the United Nations treaty to end pla...
Day 3: UN Plastics Pollution Treaty Negotiations
ASH's Policy Director Chris Bostic is attending the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Conference (INC-1) of the United Nations treaty to end pla...
Day 2: UN Plastics Pollution Treaty Negotiations
ASH's Policy Director Chris Bostic is attending the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Conference (INC-1) of the United Nations treaty to end pla...
Day 1: UN Plastics Pollution Treaty Negotiations
ASH's Policy Director Chris Bostic is attending the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Conference (INC-1) of the United Nations treaty to end pla...
UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has correctly designated cigarette filters as a form of single-use plastic. The Intergovernmental ...
The Stop Tobacco Pollution Alliance (STPA)
The Stop Tobacco Pollution Alliance (STPA) is a global coalition of 100 public health organizations, listed below, who recognize the crucial interse...
2021 Annual Report
Click here to read ASH's Annual Report
In 2021, despite operating under the global COVID-19 pandemic, ASH implemented numerous programs to accompl...
Decades of Dedication: Dr. Alfred Munzer’s Career in Public Health
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Decades of Dedication: Dr. Alfred Munzer’s Career in Public Health
New Video Commemorates Dr...
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Nearly every noun in the English language seems to get a day we’re supposed to note or even celebrate. There is a National Pumpkin Day (October 26) as...
ASH at the Tobacco Industry Monitoring, Research and Accountability Course
Summer 2022 - ASH staff was fortunate enough to be accepted to participate in an extensive research course called “Tobacco Industry Monitoring, Resear...
ASH’s Ongoing Work at CERD
September 2022 – This year, many people and organizations have focused their energy on social justice, and ASH is no exception.
As you may know, th...
