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ASH Statement on Facebook and Instagram Prohibiting Tobacco and E-cigarette Influencer Promotions

December 20, 2019

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Statement from Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) On December 18, 2019, Facebook (including Instagram) announced that it would no longer allow influencers using its platforms to promote tobacco products, inc...

First long-term study of the health impact of vaping points the way to regulation of all tobacco products

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December 17, 2019

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First long-term study of the health impact of vaping points the way to regulation of all tobacco products Statement by Action on Smoking and Health On December 16, 2019, the first long-term study of e-cigaret...

ASH’s Accomplishments in 2019

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December 10, 2019

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ASH has a three-pronged approach to end the tobacco epidemic. Each program can end the tobacco epidemic on its own, and combined, our programs will chip away at the tobacco industry from every angle to speed up...

ASH’s Human Rights Work in Japan

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November 26, 2019

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Laurent Huber speaking at the plenary session ASH has been working tirelessly to use human rights tools to advance health around the world. Recently, we were invited to bring this work to Japan. While Ja...

Organizations Support the President’s September Decision to Remove Flavored E-Cigarettes from the Market

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November 19, 2019

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Organizations Support the President’s September Decision to Remove Flavored E-Cigarettes from the Market Now is the time to act and protect the health of our children November 18, 2019 – We write to express...

Statement from Action on Smoking & Health Regarding ILO Decision on Tobacco Funding

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October 31, 2019

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Yesterday, October 31st, ASH joined several international groups in calling on the International Labor Organization (ILO) to reject funding from the tobacco industry. Read our joint letter here. Today, Octob...

Groups Call on ILO to Reject Tobacco Funding

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October 30, 2019

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Groups Call on ILO to Reject Tobacco Funding View the infographic Bangkok (30 October, 2019)— Global public health groups called on the ILO Governing Body to reject tobacco don...

New Report Highlights Tobacco Industry Meddling to Weaken Public Health Policy

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October 9, 2019

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Read the Report Here Media Contact: Megan Arendt arendtm@ash.org (202) 390 – 9513 New Report Highlights Tobacco Industry Meddling to Weaken Public Health Policy The Tobacco (Including Vaping) Industry ...

The FDA tried to ban flavors years before the vaping outbreak. Top Obama officials rejected the plan

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October 4, 2019

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Excerpt: Instead, over the course of 46 days, a deluge of more than 100 tobacco industry lobbyists and small business advocates met with White House officials as they weighed whether to include the ban as pa...

15 Organizations Report to the UN Human Rights Council that the U.S. Fails to Protect the Right to Health

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October 3, 2019

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Media Contact: Megan Arendt arendtm@ash.org (202) 390 – 9513 Read the UPR Submission Here WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 3, 2019 – Today, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), in partnership with 14 civil...

Op-Ed by Andrew Hyland, chairman of the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

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September 17, 2019

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s recent statement urging New Yorkers to stop using vaping products was both striking and justified. The bizarre lung illnesses that prompted warnings from the governor, the state Departmen...

Statement from Action on Smoking & Health Regarding Trump Administration’s Move to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes

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September 11, 2019

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WASHINGTON, DC - September 11, 2019 - The Trump administration just announced that it will seek to ban flavored electronic cigarettes. This move follows the news of six mysterious deaths linked to vaping. Actio...

Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber on FDA and Graphic Warning Labels: Glacial and Unwilling, but in the Right Direction

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August 16, 2019

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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

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August 13, 2019

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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

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August 9, 2019

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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

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July 19, 2019

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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

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June 7, 2019

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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

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June 4, 2019

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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)!

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May 20, 2019

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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

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May 16, 2019

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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

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May 10, 2019

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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

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April 25, 2019

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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

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April 11, 2019

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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?

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April 3, 2019

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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

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March 24, 2019

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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...