10th Anniversary of Landmark Ruling
On August 17, 2006, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued an historic ruling. Nearly 7 years after the case was first filed, Judge Kessler issued ...
WHO Resources on NCDs
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking to better assist progress toward the non-communicable disease (NCD) reduction targets endorsed by gover...
No Safe Use of Tobacco
Tasmania, an Australian island off the Southern coast, is considering an historic step for tobacco control. The Legislative Council is currently consi...
Earth Day 2016
The harmful impacts of smoking go well beyond each individual smoker. Cigarettes have a negative impact on the environment throughout their entire lif...
Why don’t smokers quit?
The evidence is clear: smoking is horrible for your health, and quitting benefits not only your health, but your wallet. These things are fairly obvio...
How Tobacco Companies Factor into the Presidential Primaries
As the first primary elections begin, you are probably thinking about a lot of factors when considering who to vote for. But have you thought about ho...
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber
Making Priorities into our Reality
This year has been one filled with milestones for the public health and tobacco control communities.
The Susta...
Criminal Cases about Consumer Products
The tobacco epidemic continues to spread around the world. Tobacco is unique – no other product kills half of its consumers when used exactly as inten...
ASH 2015 Tobacco Criminal Liability and Tobacco & Human Rights Report Card
ASH’s tobacco criminal liability program was created to investigate the possibility of holding tobacco corporations and their executives criminally li...
ASH 2015 Trade Report Card
Last week, after many years of painful negotiation, the final text for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement was released. This is the text th...
ASH 2015 Tobacco Industry Monitoring Report Card
ASH’s Tobacco Industry Monitoring (TIM) program works to track and publicize tobacco industry behavior. Our TIM program stems from Article 5.3 of the...
Smoked meat is NOT as dangerous as smoked tobacco
Most regular readers of the ASH blog will have heard the news from the World Health Organization (WHO) that smoked and preserved meats are now known c...
International Day of the Girl
In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly declared October 11 as the International Day of the Girl, to recognize girls’ rights and the unique chall...
What does peanut butter have to do with tobacco?
Recently, a landmark case was decided in federal court in Georgia. The subject of the case? Peanut butter.
The Peanut Butter Case: United States of A...
The experiences of an ASH intern (Part 2)
Guest Blog: Continued from Here
By Matt Romeo
Communications
As part of the communications aspect of my internship, I got to dress-up as “Jeff the...
Big Trade Agreements … Big Tobacco
By Chris Bostic, for Health and Trade Network
As the role of tobacco companies in trade agreements on both sides of the Atlantic has been highlight...
The experiences of an ASH intern (Part 1)
Guest Blog: What I did this summer
By Matt Romeo
This summer I was given the opportunity to intern at ASH to learn about the inner workings of a n...
Tobacco farmers are a pawn in the TPP game
But tobacco farmers are not part of the game
Mitch McConnell and other pro-tobacco politicians have become very vocal over the past two weeks in the...
On Our Way to Achieving the “Impossible”
When ASH first began its post-2015 UN development agenda campaign in 2013, it was perceived as nearly impossible to integrate tobacco control into the...
A Victory for Standardized Packaging
Earlier this month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released figures showing that tobacco and cigarette consumption in Australia have dropped dram...
International Smoke-free Air Successes
Many Americans view smoking, and secondhand smoke, as a problem that has mostly been solved, at least in the United States.
However, only half of a...
Tobacco & Human Rights in Latin America
An article written by ASH Staff Attorney Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy was recently published in the American Bar Association’s “International Law News.” The a...
#StopMarlboro
Marlboro’s “Be Marlboro” campaign is in the news again - this time because of a copyright claim.
#JeffWeCan Flash Mob in Times Square
Since 20...
Tobacco Taxes are Front & Center in Influential Post-2015 Report!
The UN’s post-2015 development goal process is still in full swing. Member states have spent the last week discussing ways to finance the new Sustaina...