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 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...
Tony Gwynn’s Family Sues Tobacco Industry, Seeking Recourse Over Fatal Habit Arendtm May 24, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The family of Tony Gwynn, a baseball Hall of Famer who died of salivary gland cancer in 2014, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Monday against the tobacco industry, charging that Gwynn had been manipulated into th...
Insurer AXA to pull out of tobacco investments Arendtm May 24, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News French insurer AXA plans to stop investing in the tobacco industry, citing the impact of smoking on public health, and said it plans to sell its 1.8 billion euros ($2.02 billion) of assets in the sector. AXA...
Tobacco Firms Lose Court Challenge Over Packaging Arendtm May 19, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The tobacco industry lost its High Court challenge to the UK government's regulations on standardised "plain" cigarette packaging. Read more>...
Justices turn down Philip Morris appeal of $25M judgment Arendtm May 16, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected Philip Morris USA’s appeal of a $25 million punitive damages award to the family of a dead smoker in Oregon. The justices on Monday are leaving in place a state ap...
Cancer Council chief calls for a smoke free future Arendtm May 16, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Cancer Council fully supports proposals to ban smoking in the presence of children, and has asked whether it’s time to actively consider a generational phase-out of cigarettes. Read more>...
We Agree: Put Big Tobacco out of business Arendtm May 13, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The embattled tobacco industry is struggling to fight off one of its fiercest and possibly most dangerous foes to date: the World Health Organization. The Hong Kong native who has run the U.N. body for the p...
New, sweeping federal rules bar e-cigarette sales to teens younger than 18 Arendtm May 5, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Obama administration on Thursday announced controversial new rules for electronic cigarettes, cigars, hookahs and pipe tobacco, including barring the sales of the products to teens under 18 years old. Th...
Dutch lawyer starts criminal case against tobacco firms Arendtm May 2, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News A Dutch lawyer and lung cancer patient are planning to take tobacco companies to court for for producing cigarettes designed to turn people into addicts as quickly as possible. Lawyer Benedicte Ficq and canc...
Are E-Cigarettes a Healthy Way to Quit Smoking? Arendtm April 12, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Supporters say they appear to be effective. Critics say there are better and safer ways to quit smoking. Read both sides in the Wall Street Journal here>...
Liability: untapped potential in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Arendtm April 11, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News ASH Policy Director Chris Bostic, Richard Daynard, and Tamar Lawrence-Samuel (Corporate Accountability International) shed some light on the untapped potential in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. ...
Pepsico, Philip Morris Face Human Rights Resolutions Arendtm April 8, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The resolution urges companies to agree to participate in mediation of any alleged human rights violations if requested by certain governmental agencies identified by the OECD. It calls for the companies to ...
New research published by the World Health Organization (WHO) Arendtm April 7, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News This new research by the WHO shows the huge opportunity governments have from increasing taxes on tobacco. WHO found that if cigarette tax increased by US$ 0.8 (or 1 international $) per pack wor...
Big Tobacco takes hit; City Council bolsters anti-smoking efforts Arendtm March 17, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Big Tobacco took it on the chin Wednesday when Chicago raised its smoking age to 21, outlawed discounts, slapped a $6 million tax on cigars, roll-your-own tobacco and smokeless tobacco and banned chaw altogethe...
California Lawmakers Vote to Raise Smoking, Vaping Age to 21 Arendtm March 11, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News California lawmakers voted Thursday to raise the legal age for purchasing and using tobacco and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21, putting the nation's most populous state on the brink of becoming only the second afte...
WHO warns governments that Big Tobacco is undermining protocol to combat smuggling Arendtm March 9, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Secretariat for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recently sent the following Note Verbal to all Missions of Parties in Geneva to alert them to prevent interference from the tobacco ind...
Manhattan Co-op Resident Wins $120K In Lawsuit Over Secondhand Smoke Infiltration Arendtm March 9, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has awarded a co-op apartment owner more than $120,000 in maintenance and fees after she sued over damage to her place from people smoking in neighboring apartments, which she sa...
Raise the Legal Age for Cigarette Sales to 21 Arendtm March 7, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The biggest reason to raise the legal age to 21 is to reduce young people’s access to tobacco when they are more likely to become addicted and when their brains are still developing. Studies have found that ni...
Tougher smoking laws passed in Queensland Arendtm February 24, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Queensland has passed some of the toughest smoking laws in the country. From September 1, lighting up will be outlawed at or near childcare facilities, bus stops and taxi ranks, public pools, children's spor...
Major NY Law Firm Brags of Denying Smokers ‘Standard of Care’ For ‘Early Detection of Lung Cancer’ Arendtm February 17, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News A legal victory is one thing but for lawyers for a tobacco company to publicly celebrate denying potential cancer victims the best way of identifying lung disease as early as possible seems reprehensible. . ....
