Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber on FDA and Graphic Warning Labels: Glacial and Unwilling, but in the Right Direction Arendtm August 16, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News This week the Food and Drug Administration announced a comment period for a proposed rule to require graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and advertisements (pictured above). If this sounds familia...
Supporter Spotlight: Ray Perkins’ Journey through Local Anti-Smoking Activism Arendtm August 13, 2019 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events After working 8 years in the manufacturing industry, in 1972 I became disabled due to exposure to welding fumes and airborne pollutants, causing me to undergo 3 weeks of treatment at Salem (Mass.) Hospital....
ASH at the 2019 Human Rights Council Arendtm August 9, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events ASH staff recently spent time in Geneva, Switzerland to attend the 41st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The UN Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations sy...
Joint Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Arendtm July 19, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Feature, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News Secretary General António Guterres 19 July 2019 United Nations, S-233 New York, NY 10027 D...
Beverly Hills Banned the Sale of Tobacco Products Because Cigarettes are Still a Huge Problem Arendtm June 7, 2019 ASH in the News, Blog, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News As we write this, no one is smoking inside of our office. We rode the metro this morning with no one smoking on the train or the platform, and we can meet friends for dinner tonight where no one will smoke arou...
Beverly Hills, CA is the New Norm for Tobacco Sales, Not the Outlier Arendtm June 4, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News 1 Beverly Hills, CA is the New Norm for Tobacco Sales, Not the Outlier Ban on Tobacco Sales in Beverly Hills Passed with Unanimous Support WASHINGTON, DC – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2019 – Late last night, the Beverly...
Media Advisory: What’s Menthol Got to Do with It? Everything (Still)! Arendtm May 20, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News Carol McGruder, Co-Chair, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council "For every black man murdered, there are 6-8 dying of tobacco diseases." "We can’t wait until what’s happening with police bru...
Dossier: Tobacco’s big child labour problem Arendtm May 16, 2019 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The precise number of children involved in the tobacco industry is unknown but is thought to be in the tens of millions. More than 152m children are engaged in labour, 71 per cent of them in agriculture, ra...
Beverly Hills City Council Meeting – May 7, 2019 Arendtm May 10, 2019 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Once again, the Beverly Hills City Council voiced unanimous support for phasing out the sale of tobacco products in their community. Dedicated to the health of their residents, the Council is looking to move sw...
Insight from a 6th Grader in Connecticut Arendtm April 25, 2019 Blog, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 Below are an essay and video ASH received from a 6th grader known as A.C.R.S. at Weston Middle School in Weston, CT. She argues a strong and well-cited case like a seasoned veteran in our field, simplifying an ...
Bucharest Declaration on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free Europe Arendtm April 11, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 This Resolution came out of discussions that began at the Global Forum on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World on March 26, 2019 in Bucharest, Romania and continued at the annual European Network for Smoking a...
Do industries that kill more people than they employ have a right to exist? Arendtm April 3, 2019 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News A new study outlines why the tobacco and coal industries warrant "corporate death sentences." ROBBY BERMAN 24 February, 2019 Read on BigThink.com...
Global Forum on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World Arendtm March 24, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, Global Action for Everyone's Health, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News 2 Romanian President Klaus Iohannis speaking at the Forum This unique and historic event brought together global leaders in human rights and public health to discuss ways to advance worldwide efforts to comb...
Did Philip Morris International confess to murder? Arendtm March 15, 2019 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Philip Morris Managing Director for the United Kingdom, Peter Nixon, was a guest on Good Morning Britain on March 13, 2019, claiming to want to stop selling cigarettes in favor of "less harmful" nicotine addict...
No Legal Right to Smoke Arendtm March 5, 2019 ASH in the News, Blog, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates In our work, we spend a lot of time arguing for people’s rights. The right to be free from targeted advertising by the tobacco industry. The right to access cessation products. The right to be free from sec...
Update: Dutch Criminal Case Against Tobacco Industry Arendtm February 8, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News In September 2016, lawyer Benedicte Ficq filed a criminal case with the Dutch Public Prosecutor, alleging that four tobacco manufacturers were guilty of attempted murder, manslaughter, premeditated attempts...
Statement on Hawaii Phasing Out Cigarette Sales Arendtm February 4, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber Monday, February 4, 2019 ASH fully supports Hawaii’s proposal to phase cigarettes out of the Hawaiian market by 2024. Cigarettes are highly engineered nico...
Why I Fight – Pete Gachot Arendtm January 11, 2019 ASH in the News, Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events I figured out the hard way that tobacco is the BIG LIE of our times. Both my parents smoked, as did their parents, and many of my friends. It would have been socially advantageous for me to smoke, and I actuall...
Recap of ASH’s progress in 2018 Arendtm December 19, 2018 ASH in the News, Blog, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News We hope you’ve had a healthy and happy 2018. Here at ASH, it’s been a productive year. One thing we are very proud of is how much our small staff of 6 people accomplishes. We wanted to share with you some of ou...
The Dutch Criminal Case: We’ve lost a battle, but not the war Arendtm December 19, 2018 Blog, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Smoke Alarms One of ASH’s programs seeks to hold tobacco corporations and executives criminally responsible for the deaths and disease caused by their products. To that end, we work with organizations around the world w...
Response from Dutch Cancer Society to the Court of Appeal’s decision to reject the charges made against the tobacco industry Arendtm December 11, 2018 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 Dutch Cancer Society: The court in The Hague has rejected the complaint submitted in the so-called Article 12 procedure against cigarette manufacturers. The Dutch Cancer Society is one of the parties that f...
70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Arendtm December 10, 2018 ASH in the News, Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events 1 December 10 is international Human Rights Day, in observation of the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This landmark document set out, for the first ...
FDA wants to ban menthol cigarettes. Why not all cigarettes? Arendtm November 14, 2018 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, Press Releases Media Contact: Megan Arendt arendtm@ash.org (202) 659 - 4310 WASHINGTON, DC – November 15, 2018 – This week FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced his intention to begin the process for banning the sale...
In memoriam of Dr. Caleb Otto Arendtm October 29, 2018 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News It is with great sadness that we heard of the passing of our friend, mentor and public health hero, Dr. Caleb Otto, former Ambassador from Palau to the United Nations. Dr. Otto not only did not think we were...
Sign on Letter to the President of the Swiss Confederation Arendtm September 24, 2018 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News Read the sign on letter from 113 signatory organizations here. Photos for Media Use from Press Conference here. View Press Conference powerpoint. Overview of Press Conference Pascal Diethelm (President,...
