Why I Fight: To End Blogs Like This
My mom and her grandchildren
I don’t want to be writing this. It makes it real.
I miss my mom so much; I don’t want it to be real.
I’m Carol. My mom died of cancer caused by a lifetime of smoking. Sh...
Human Rights Day 2020
Happy Human Rights Day! December 10th is International Human Rights Day, in observation of the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This landmark document s...
National Index Shines a Light on Tobacco Industry Interference in Lawmaking
National Index Shines a Light on Tobacco Industry Interference in Lawmaking
New Report Released by Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) Exposes What Tobacco Industry Wants Ignored
Media Contact:
Megan Arendt...
Statement from Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health, on the passing of former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez
Statement from Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health, on the passing of former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez
It is with a heavy heart that we note the passing of former Urugu...
National Medical Association (NMA) Joins AATCLC, AMA AND ASH IN LAWSUIT AGAINST THE FDA
National Medical Association (NMA) Joins AATCLC, AMA and ASH in Lawsuit Against the FDA
Lawsuit seeks to require the FDA to take action on menthol cigarettes
Media Contacts:
AATCLC: Tracy Brown, 888-881-6619...
Finally, the beginning of a paradigm shift that will phase out tobacco use entirely!
Guest Author: Richard A. Daynard
University Distinguished Professor of Law
President, Public Health Advocacy Institute
Northeastern Univeristy School of Law
On November 19, 2020 the representative town me...
5 Editorials Released in Tobacco Induced Diseases Journal (TID)
In a COVID-free world, many people in tobacco control would have been at the Hague from 9-14 November 2020 for the Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP9) of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC...
The Netherlands presents plan to reduce tobacco retail outlets
Guest Blog Author: Daniëlle Arnold, Policy Advisor
Health Funds for a Smokefree Netherlands (previously the Dutch Alliance for a Smokefree Society)
On Friday, November 20, 2020, the Dutch governme...
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 sold in the U.S. that has long been marketed to Black Americans...
STOP Partners: New Global Index Shows Aggressive Tobacco Industry Lobbying in 2019 and Exploitation of COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020
Data from 57 Countries Reveal Governments Aren’t Doing Enough to Protect Policy From Industry Influence
November 17, 2020
Read the full press release and global report from the STOP Partners and the G...
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 (FCTC) released this new publication:
Global Strategy to A...
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 Attorney at ASH
Article 19: How it has been utilized, how...
ASH 2020 Town Hall
Watch the recording here
2020 has been a challenging year for a lot of us, but at ASH, we aren’t letting that slow our progress combatting the tobacco epidemic. Much of our work is bolstered by partner and c...
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 the Hague in the Netherlands to participate in the biannual...
Dolgeville, NY: Retail Environment Tobacco Law
Click here for PDF
Public Hearing: January 2019
Effective: April 2019
Local Law #2 of the year 2019
Steps
Have a group of youth educated and engaged in tobacco control
Work with the municipal...
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 products, presenting themselves as responsible corporate cit...
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 Thousands of African Americans From Mentholated Tobacco Produc...
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 people, we are hosting a short Facebook Live with our Managing A...
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.
The editorial was co-signed by:
African American Toba...
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 University Press: Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 22, Iss...
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 Medical Association (NMA) as a co-plantiffs. See the latest news...
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 Project Sunset: To phase out the sale of commercial combustible ...
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 you all a quick overview of the tobacco treaty- the Framework...
CIEP: Increasing Tobacco Taxes Benefits the Poor
This Report was written by the Centro de Investigación Económica y Presupuestaria A.C. (CIEP) in Mexico.
Read the report here.
The Report shares the results of CIEP’s extended cost-benefit analysis of increas...
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 2020 to fill an information gap that existed. We've continued t...
