FRR Excludes the Tobacco Sector Arendtm December 19, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Supervisory Board of the Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) adopted the Executive Board’s proposal to exclude from its portfolio investments in equities or bonds of tobacco producing companies. "T...
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber on a Tobacco-Free World Arendtm December 19, 2016 ASH in the News, Blog, Featured News & Events, Smoke Alarms That’s our vision at ASH, a tobacco-free world. This year marks ASH’s 50th anniversary, and we are as committed as ever to end the tobacco epidemic. With your help, we can achieve this vision. Here’s how we...
Action Review: 4th Quarter 2016 ash December 16, 2016 E-Newsletter, Featured News & Events U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber at HHS Statement from ASH on E-Cigarettes Following the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy ...
Statement from Action on Smoking and Health on E-Cigarettes Following the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report: E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults Arendtm December 8, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases 1 U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a new report today, December 8, 2016, that presents research and policy recommendations on electronic cigarettes and their use among adolescents and young adults. ...
Human Rights Day 2016 Arendtm December 7, 2016 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates December 10th is recognized worldwide as Human Rights Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. T...
We must protect our health gains Arendtm December 2, 2016 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates What will the next four years hold for the anti-tobacco movement in the U.S.? We can't say for sure, and if the recent track record of pollsters tells us anything, it is that concrete political predictions are ...
What if Tobacco Vanished? Arendtm December 2, 2016 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates Cigarettes have been commercially marketed and sold in the United States for over 100 years. The negative health effects of tobacco have been public knowledge for at least the last 50 years. The death and disea...
New HUD Rule on Smokefree Public Housing Arendtm November 30, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 Read their announcement here>...
ASH Releases Video to Showcase a New Ending to the Tobacco Story Arendtm November 17, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News 1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Arendt Office: 202-659-4310 Email: arendtm@ash.org ASH Releases Video to Showcase a New Ending to the Tobacco Story The World We Need WASHINGTON, D.C. – Novembe...
VANISH Arendtm November 14, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events 1 Every. Six. Seconds. A new tragedy hits as a new person dies from a tobacco-related disease. Each person leaves a hole in our families, communities, and society when they vanish. This is unacceptable. This i...
RJ Reynolds Can’t Make Up Its Mind Arendtm October 31, 2016 Blog, Featured News & Events, Related News, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates In California, RJ Reynolds is spending millions to prevent a new tax on cigarettes. But in Missouri, RJ Reynolds is spending millions to promote a new tax on cigarettes. Tobacco taxes are proven to prevent kid...
ASH Environmental Webinar Recap Arendtm September 30, 2016 Blog, Featured News & Events, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates 1 When we think of tobacco, a lot of health issues immediately spring to mind – lung cancer, throat cancer, cardiovascular disease, tooth decay, asthma. But tobacco products also wreak havoc on our environment, a...
Tobacco 21: Campaign Case Study Arendtm September 1, 2016 ASH in the News, Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 This case study is intended as a teaching device for municipalities that are just getting started or have already begun working to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21. Read the Case Stud...
Is Vaping Bad For You? Is It Safe? Experts Weigh In Arendtm August 29, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events Laurent Huber, Executive Director of ASH: Combustible tobacco products like cigarettes are extremely toxic, killing approximately 6 million people per year. Given that cigarettes are so ridiculously toxic, ...
10th Anniversary of Landmark Ruling Arendtm August 16, 2016 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News, Smoke Alarms 1 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 an opinion that found that the tobacco industry had fraudule...
Who really won the legal battle between Philip Morris and Uruguay? Arendtm July 29, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The David-Goliath battle between Uruguay and Philip Morris is an iconic case because it so clearly illustrates the way corporations can use international investment treaties to attack regulations made in the pu...
Joint Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations Arendtm July 12, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News ...
Uruguay Wins Its Tobacco Case Against Philip Morris International ash July 8, 2016 Feature, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News 2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Arendt Office: 202-659-4310 Email: arendtm@ash.org STATEMENT BY LAURENT HUBER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH Uruguay Wins Its Tobacco Case...
Age to buy tobacco in Chicago increasing to 21 this week Arendtm July 1, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News CHICAGO (AP) — The minimum age in Chicago for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products goes up to 21 at the end of the week. The city on Friday joins about 170 local jurisdictions around the country that...
Imperial Tobacco’s Global Director of Corporate Affairs on Plain Packaging Arendtm June 27, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Listen to the radio segment here> Watch a different news segment with the same Imperial Tobacco employee here>...
Bill to raise legal smoking age to 21 in Guam passes Arendtm June 17, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 Guam lawmakers Friday passed legislation aimed at curbing the island’s rate of tobacco users by increasing the minimum age to purchase tobacco-related products, and electronic cigarettes, to 21. Read more&g...
A growing gulf in the terrain of tobacco control ash June 1, 2016 Feature, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The theme for World No Tobacco Day on May 31, an annual initiative of WHO and the Secretariat of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), is plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging prohi...
Can Poor Countries Combat Big Tobacco Too? ash June 1, 2016 ASH in the News, Feature, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News This year for World No Tobacco Day on May 31 the World Health Organization has recommended that countries adopt plain packaging as a way to reduce tobacco use, however so far mostly only rich countries have bee...
World No Tobacco Day: Taking Steps to Save Lives Arendtm May 31, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News By: Jimmy Kolker, HHS Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs Summary: Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States. This May 31st, we celebrate World No Toba...
ASH Statement of Support for Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) Grayn May 25, 2016 Feature, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News ASH Statement of Support for Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a Washington, DC based non-governmental organization fully devoted to supporting gl...
