Tobacco 21: Campaign Case Study Arendtm September 1, 2016 ASH in the News, Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 This case study is intended as a teaching device for municipalities that are just getting started or have already begun working to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21. Read the Case Stud...
10th Anniversary of Landmark Ruling Arendtm August 16, 2016 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News, Smoke Alarms 1 On August 17, 2006, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued an historic ruling. Nearly 7 years after the case was first filed, Judge Kessler issued an opinion that found that the tobacco industry had fraudule...
Who really won the legal battle between Philip Morris and Uruguay? Arendtm July 29, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The David-Goliath battle between Uruguay and Philip Morris is an iconic case because it so clearly illustrates the way corporations can use international investment treaties to attack regulations made in the pu...
WHO Resources on NCDs Arendtm July 19, 2016 Blog, News & Events, Related News The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking to better assist progress toward the non-communicable disease (NCD) reduction targets endorsed by governments in order to reduce premature death from the four majo...
Joint Letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations Arendtm July 12, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News ...
Uruguay Wins Its Tobacco Case Against Philip Morris International ash July 8, 2016 Feature, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Arendt Office: 202-659-4310 Email: arendtm@ash.org STATEMENT BY LAURENT HUBER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH Uruguay Wins Its Tobacco Case...
Age to buy tobacco in Chicago increasing to 21 this week Arendtm July 1, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News CHICAGO (AP) — The minimum age in Chicago for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products goes up to 21 at the end of the week. The city on Friday joins about 170 local jurisdictions around the country that...
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...
