ASH has a three-pronged approach to end the tobacco epidemic. Each program can end the tobacco epidemic on its own, and combined, our programs will chip away at the tobacco industry from every angle to speed up...
Laurent Huber speaking at the plenary session
ASH has been working tirelessly to use human rights tools to advance health around the world. Recently, we were invited to bring this work to Japan.
While Ja...
Organizations Support the President’s September Decision to Remove Flavored E-Cigarettes from the Market
Now is the time to act and protect the health of our children
November 18, 2019 – We write to express...
Yesterday, October 31st, ASH joined several international groups in calling on the International Labor Organization (ILO) to reject funding from the tobacco industry. Read our joint letter here.
Today, Octob...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Groups Call on ILO to Reject Tobacco Funding
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Bangkok (30 October, 2019)— Global public health groups called on the ILO Governing Body to reject tobacco don...
Read the Report Here
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New Report Highlights Tobacco Industry Meddling to Weaken Public Health Policy
The Tobacco (Including Vaping) Industry ...
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Instead, over the course of 46 days, a deluge of more than 100 tobacco industry lobbyists and small business advocates met with White House officials as they weighed whether to include the ban as pa...
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Megan Arendt
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Read the UPR Submission Here
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 3, 2019 – Today, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), in partnership with 14 civil...
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s recent statement urging New Yorkers to stop using vaping products was both striking and justified. The bizarre lung illnesses that prompted warnings from the governor, the state Departmen...
WASHINGTON, DC - September 11, 2019 - The Trump administration just announced that it will seek to ban flavored electronic cigarettes. This move follows the news of six mysterious deaths linked to vaping. Actio...
AUGUST 16, 2019 - This week the Food and Drug Administration announced a comment period for a proposed rule to require graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and advertisements (pictured above). If t...
As we write this, no one is smoking inside of our office. We rode the metro this morning with no one smoking on the train or the platform, and we can meet friends for dinner tonight where no one will smoke arou...
Beverly Hills, CA is the New Norm for Tobacco Sales, Not the Outlier
Ban on Tobacco Sales in Beverly Hills Passed with Unanimous Support
WASHINGTON, DC – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2019 – Late last night, the Beverly...
Carol McGruder, Co-Chair, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council
"For every black man murdered, there are 6-8 dying of tobacco diseases."
"We can’t wait until what’s happening with police bru...
The precise number of children involved in the tobacco industry is unknown but is thought to be in the tens of millions. More than 152m children are engaged in labour, 71 per cent of them in agriculture, ra...
Once again, the Beverly Hills City Council voiced unanimous support for phasing out the sale of tobacco products in their community. Dedicated to the health of their residents, the Council is looking to move sw...
Below are an essay and video ASH received from a 6th grader known as A.C.R.S. at Weston Middle School in Weston, CT. She argues a strong and well-cited case like a seasoned veteran in our field, simplifying an ...
This Resolution came out of discussions that began at the Global Forum on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World on March 26, 2019 in Bucharest, Romania and continued at the annual European Network for Smoking a...
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis speaking at the Forum
This unique and historic event brought together global leaders in human rights and public health to discuss ways to advance worldwide efforts to comb...
Philip Morris Managing Director for the United Kingdom, Peter Nixon, was a guest on Good Morning Britain on March 13, 2019, claiming to want to stop selling cigarettes in favor of "less harmful" nicotine addict...
In our work, we spend a lot of time arguing for people’s rights. The right to be free from targeted advertising by the tobacco industry. The right to access cessation products. The right to be free from sec...
In September 2016, lawyer Benedicte Ficq filed a criminal case with the Dutch Public Prosecutor, alleging that four tobacco manufacturers were guilty of attempted murder, manslaughter, premeditated attempts...
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber
Monday, February 4, 2019
ASH fully supports Hawaii’s proposal to phase cigarettes out of the Hawaiian market by 2024. Cigarettes are highly engineered nico...