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 ...
ASH’s Accomplishments in 2020
ASH’s work is based on the principle that the behavior of the tobacco industry, marketing and selling lethal and addictive products, violates human ri...
Why I Fight: To End Blogs Like This
My mom and her grandchildren
I don’t want to be writing this. It makes it real.
I miss my mom so much; I don’t want it to be real.
I’m Caro...
Human Rights Day 2020
Happy Human Rights Day! December 10th is International Human Rights Day, in observation of the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal ...
Finally, the beginning of a paradigm shift that will phase out tobacco use entirely!
Guest Author: Richard A. Daynard
University Distinguished Professor of Law
President, Public Health Advocacy Institute
Northeastern Univeristy Scho...
5 Editorials Released in Tobacco Induced Diseases Journal (TID)
In a COVID-free world, many people in tobacco control would have been at the Hague from 9-14 November 2020 for the Ninth Conference of the Parties (CO...
The Netherlands presents plan to reduce tobacco retail outlets
Guest Blog Author: Daniëlle Arnold, Policy Advisor
Health Funds for a Smokefree Netherlands (previously the Dutch Alliance for a Smokefree Society)
...
Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy – Webinar on WHO FCTC Article 19: Using the Judicial System to Fight Tobacco
ASH Webinar on WHO FCTC Article 19: Using the Judicial System to Fight Tobacco
November 10, 2020
Statement from Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorn...
ASH 2020 Town Hall
Watch the recording here
2020 has been a challenging year for a lot of us, but at ASH, we aren’t letting that slow our progress combatting the toba...
Dolgeville, NY: Retail Environment Tobacco Law
Click here for PDF
Public Hearing: January 2019
Effective: April 2019
Local Law #2 of the year 2019
Steps
Have a group of youth educat...
ASH Live: Human Rights & Cessation
ASH recently co-authored this BMJ Tobacco Control article on using human rights tools to strengthen cessation. To bring this new approach to more peop...
Why I Fight: John’s Dying Wish
The tobacco industry knows that their products kill when used as intended, and yet, they choose to continue to mass produce, market, and sell cigarett...
