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. . ....
Tobacco plain packaging likely to be law in New Zealand by end of year Arendtm February 17, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm February 5, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm January 27, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm January 27, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm January 22, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 ash January 15, 2016 Feature, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News, Smoke Alarms 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 Arendtm January 14, 2016 Featured News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm January 6, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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. Read on>...
U.K. Approves E-Cigarette Prescriptions To Help People Quit Smoking Arendtm January 6, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm December 18, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm December 18, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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...
