Are E-Cigarettes a Healthy Way to Quit Smoking?
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
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.
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Pepsico, Philip Morris Face Human Rights Resolutions
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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. . ....
Tobacco plain packaging likely to be law in New Zealand by end of year
A law that would force tobacco companies to wrap their cigarettes in plain packaging could be in action by the end of the year.
Prime Minister John Key has confirmed a bill, on pause partway through the parl...
35 Health Groups Urge Congress to Support Trans-Pacific Partnership Provision Protecting Health Measures from Tobacco Industry Attacks
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the United States and 11 other countries prepare to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement later today, 35 leading public health and medi...
On Twitter, e-cigarette ads spread like secondhand smoke
Several states have enacted laws limiting where e-cigarettes can be used -- after citing public health concerns -- but as no federal law has been created to curtail e-cigarette advertising, companies are resort...
Potentially pivotal suit pits smokers vs. Big Tobacco
A decade after a group of American smokers sued Philip Morris USA to try to force the cigarette maker to pay for lung cancer screenings, the case will finally be heard by a jury.
Smokers from Massachusetts a...
The True Cost of Smoking by State
WalletHub’s analysts calculated the potential monetary losses — including the cumulative cost of a cigarette pack per day over several decades, health care expenditures, income losses and other costs — brought ...
Kids Overexposed to Cigarettes in Video Games
Hundreds of video games come out every year. Avid gamers have at least 326 news ones to look forward to in 2016.
If previous years are any indication, many of these games will contain images of cigarett...
First Singapore, now Norway calls for tobacco sales ban on those born after 2000
January 2016: The president of the Norwegian Medical Association, Marit Hermansen, has called for a ban on the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2000 as a first step to create a smoke-free society ...
Japan Tobacco aims to become world’s leading merchant of death
Mitsuomi Koizumi, 58, president of Japan Tobacco Inc., discussed how his company has evolved since its privatization in 1985 as well as its future strategy, in an interview with Yomiuri Shimbun.
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U.K. Approves E-Cigarette Prescriptions To Help People Quit Smoking
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's drug regulators have given the go-ahead for a British American Tobacco electronic-cigarette vaping device to be sold as a quit smoking medicine, the first such product to be given a...
2015 was a Very Bad Year for the Tobacco Industry
And it’s only going to get worse for them.
I was asked two weeks ago to blog about my end-of-year thoughts. Something told me to procrastinate, and I am glad I did. Within 24 hours before putting fingers to ...
Philip Morris loses case against Australia’s tobacco plain packaging law
Cigarette company Philip Morris has suffered another defeat in its long-running bid to overturn Australia's plain packaging laws.
An arbitration tribunal based in Singapore has issued a unanimous decision ag...
Good news from our friends in the UK
ASH (UK) news release:
France commits to go ahead with standardised ‘plain’ cigarette packs as Big Tobacco’s UK legal challenge draws to a close
The tobacco industry’s challenge to the UK’s standardised tob...
Obama’s Legacy on Tobacco
President Obama is moving to cement a significant legacy in the fight against smoking.
Despite Obama’s own struggles with cigarettes, many public health advocates see him as a champion on the issue, and a se...
Racial Politics Flavor Debate Over Banning Menthol Cigarettes
Lorillard Tobacco donated nearly four times as much to Republican candidates as to Democrats in the 2014 congressional elections. No surprise there — most businesses count on Republicans to hold the line on reg...