The Tobacco Industry’s Impact on Child Exploitation Globally
Author: Mitch Schuster, ASH Policy and Communications Intern
The tobacco industry is frequently criticized for its product’s harmful effects on glo...
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ASH Statement: Thanking the District of Columbia’s Mayor for Signing the Tobacco Product Flavor Ban Bill into Law
Statement from Action on Smoking and Health
Thanking the District of Columbia’s Mayor for Signing the Tobacco Product Flavor Ban Bill into Law
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Huber Statement: Brookline, MA Becomes 1st City in the U.S. to Ban Tobacco Sales to Anyone Born in the 21st Century
Statement from Laurent Huber, Executive Director,
Action on Smoking and Health
Brookline, MA Becomes 1st City in the U.S. to Ban Tobacco Sales to An...
Statement from Elizabeth Furgurson, COO of ASH in Support of DC’s Bill to Ban Flavors in Tobacco Products
Statement from Elizabeth Furgurson, Chief Operating Officer of ASH
in Support of the District of Columbia’s Bill to Ban Flavors in Tobacco Products
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ABC7 FACEism: How Big Tobacco’s targeting of Black communities lured generations into addiction
"It's easy to assume smokers know the risk, but it's not that simple. According to investigators, minority communities, as well as children, were spec...
148 Organizations, Universities, and Cancer Centers Call for an End to Combustible Tobacco Sales
Additional organizations continue to sign onto this letter. For the most recent number of signatory organizations, click here.
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Letter: 154 Organizations Call for Phasing Out Sales of Combustible Tobacco Products
154 Organizations Call for Phasing Out Sales of Combustible Tobacco Products
The lessons learned in 2020 from the bold actions taken to address t...
Report: Cessation, The Right to Health
Access to Smoking Cessation Support is a Human Right
ASH and ICTC Release a Report in Advance of World No Tobacco Day, May 31st
Contact: Megan Arend...
MDPI: Towards Quantifiable Metrics Warranting Industry-Wide Corporate Death Penalties
Professor Joshua Pearce, the Richard Witte Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and a Professor cross-appointed in the Department of Materia...
Support For U.S. FDA’s Menthol Ban
There is vast global support for the U.S. to ban menthol cigarettes, as several countries have already done.
The University of Bath’s Tobacco T...
Joint Statement: The FDA Agrees to Ban Menthol, To Protect African Americans
The FDA Agrees to Ban Menthol, To Protect African Americans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responds to a lawsuit filed by ASH, AAT...
Statement on FDA’s Response in Favor of Banning Menthol
Statement on FDA’s Response in Favor of Banning Menthol
Statement of Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorney at Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
WA...
97 Organizations Agree, UN Human Rights Committee Must Address Menthol
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97 Organizations Agree, UN Human Rights Committee Must Address Menthol
Action on Smokin...
Tobacco Companies Racially Discriminate Against Minorities
Tobacco use disproportionately affects many marginalized populations, including racial and ethnic minorities, who have a long and documented histor...
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...
NAQC Newsroom: Impact of COVID-19 on tobacco cessation
Impact of COVID-19 on Tobacco Cessation
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Every year, North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) analyzes data on quitline s...
Global Competition: #MakeTobaccoPay
The Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, a partner of STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog launched its second Global Media Compe...
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.
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Monterey County Weekly: Cigarette advertising could bring in big dollars, but crosses a line.
Read Founding Editor & CEO of the Weekly Bradley Zeve's editorial on why they rejected a $100,000 tobacco industry advertising purchase order>...
TID: Educating the public and lawmakers about tobacco industry interference
Read our joint editorial in Tobacco Induced Diseases Journal here>...
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...
