Truth Initiative Research on Federal Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
"New Truth Initiative® research shows most adults (56.4%) support a federal ban on menthol cigarettes, the last remaining flavored cigarette still sol...
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STOP Partners: New Global Index Shows Aggressive Tobacco Industry Lobbying in 2019 and Exploitation of COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020
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Data from 57 Countries Reveal Governments Aren’t Doing Enough to Protect Policy From Industry Influence
November 17, 2020
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Publication from the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC
November 11, 2020
With COP9 postponed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control...
Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy – Webinar on WHO FCTC Article 19: Using the Judicial System to Fight Tobacco
ASH Webinar on WHO FCTC Article 19: Using the Judicial System to Fight Tobacco
November 10, 2020
Statement from Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorn...
ASH 2020 Town Hall
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2020 has been a challenging year for a lot of us, but at ASH, we aren’t letting that slow our progress combatting the toba...
Webinars During COP Week 2020
The week of November 9 - 13, 2020 was originally the date for global tobacco control advocates, government representatives, and UN agencies to meet at...
Dolgeville, NY: Retail Environment Tobacco Law
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Public Hearing: January 2019
Effective: April 2019
Local Law #2 of the year 2019
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Have a group of youth educat...
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – time for a civil society equivalent?
"Tobacco company strategies include promoting limited and highly selective information about minimally described and downplayed harms caused by their ...
American Medical Association (AMA) Joins AATCLC & ASH in Lawsuit Against FDA
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (AMA) JOINS AATCLC AND ASH IN LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FDA
The Timely Lawsuit Highlights the Lack of Protection Endured by Th...
ASH Live: Human Rights & Cessation
ASH recently co-authored this BMJ Tobacco Control article on using human rights tools to strengthen cessation. To bring this new approach to more peop...
Why I Fight: John’s Dying Wish
The tobacco industry knows that their products kill when used as intended, and yet, they choose to continue to mass produce, market, and sell cigarett...
Tobacco control in the United States: Failure to protect the right to health
ASH published an editorial in Tobacco Prevention and Cessation, the official journal of ENSP, the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention....
A Holistic Approach to Human Rights and the Tobacco Epidemic
ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber, Policy Director Chris Bostic, and Managing Attorney Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy published an article in the Oxford Unive...
ASH & AATCLC File Lawsuit Against FDA
This press release was re-issued on September 3rd and December 3rd, 2020 with the addition of the American Medical Association (AMA) and National Medi...
Chris Bostic – Webinar on Endgame for Tobacco: The World We Want
ASH Webinar on Endgame for Tobacco: The World We Want
June 11, 2020
Statement from Chris Bostic, Deputy Director for Policy at ASH
The goal of Proj...
Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy – Webinar on Endgame for Tobacco: The World We Want
ASH Webinar on Endgame for Tobacco: The World We Want
June 11, 2020
Statement from Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, Managing Attorney at ASH
I wanted to give y...
CIEP: Increasing Tobacco Taxes Benefits the Poor
This Report was written by the Centro de Investigación Económica y Presupuestaria A.C. (CIEP) in Mexico.
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The Report shares the...
ASH Webinar Series
Read our COVID-19 & Tobacco Policy & Communications Toolkit here
ASH began this webinar series as the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 202...
Statement from ASH Board Chair & Executive Director
Statement from ASH Board Chair Dr. Alfred Munzer and ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber
Currently our country is engulfed in two crises, one caus...
Essay from Atul, a 10th Grade Student in Chennai, India
Why does this year's World No Tobacco Day matter to children?
By: Atul, Grade X, Chennai, India
Every year, 31 May is observed as World No Tobacco...
NGO Joint Submission to the UN Human Rights Coucil
In advance of the 44th session of the United Nations Human Right’s Council (HRC) this June, ASH and several partners submitted a formal statement addr...
Opinion in The Hill: Suggestion that smoking protects from COVID-19 may be dangerous to public health
BY DR. JOHN MAA AND BONNIE HALPERN-FELSHER, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS — 05/11/20 06:00 PM EDT
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT TH...
Response: States Can Stop Selling Cigarettes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
I read with interest Representative Krishnamoorthi's opinion piece on banning electronic cigarette sales during the pandemic (FDA can boost the corona...
Sign on Letter: Tobacco Industry Pandemic Misinformation
May 8, 2020
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Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) joined the public health community in its call to the United Nation...