Human Rights Day 2015
December 10th is recognized worldwide as Human Rights Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. T...
Criminal Cases about Consumer Products
The tobacco epidemic continues to spread around the world. Tobacco is unique – no other product kills half of its consumers when used exactly as intended. If tobacco products were released as new products today...
ASH 2015 Tobacco Criminal Liability and Tobacco & Human Rights Report Card
ASH’s tobacco criminal liability program was created to investigate the possibility of holding tobacco corporations and their executives criminally liable for the millions of tobacco-related deaths. The tobacco...
International Day of the Girl
In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly declared October 11 as the International Day of the Girl, to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges that girls face around the world. Girls and women arou...
What does peanut butter have to do with tobacco?
Recently, a landmark case was decided in federal court in Georgia. The subject of the case? Peanut butter.
The Peanut Butter Case: United States of America vs. Stewart Parnell
From 2008-2009, there was an out...
A Victory for Standardized Packaging
Earlier this month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released figures showing that tobacco and cigarette consumption in Australia have dropped dramatically. Household tobacco consumption and expenditure volu...
Tobacco & Human Rights in Latin America
An article written by ASH Staff Attorney Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy was recently published in the American Bar Association’s “International Law News.” The article discusses the growing problem of tobacco use in Latin...
#StopMarlboro
Marlboro’s “Be Marlboro” campaign is in the news again - this time because of a copyright claim.
#JeffWeCan Flash Mob in Times Square
Since 2011, Philip Morris International (PMI), which owns the Marlbo...
Earth Day 2015 – The Unforeseen Consequences of Tobacco
Most people view cigarettes as a health problem, but they are a huge environmental problem as well. The entire life cycle of a cigarette has an impact on the environment - from growing the tobacco to throwing a...
Tobacco Free Generation
In Tasmania, Australia last week, a bill was introduced to the Legislative Council that would create a “Tobacco Free Generation.” You can read the draft text of the bill here>.
The phrase tobacco free gen...
Increasing the Minimum Age
In the past few years, several localities have increased the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21. The first to increase the minimum sales age to 21 was Needham, MA, a suburb of Boston, in 2005. Following ...
Legal Victories in U.S. Tobacco Control 2014
Several cities raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21
Increasing the minimum age is very important because 95% of smokers start by their early twenties. The cities that have taken this ...
Legal Victories in International Tobacco Control 2014
Philip Morris International was fined in Brazil for targeting youth
The consumer protection agency from the Brazilian state of São Paulo has fined Philip Morris over $480,000. The agency acted after a fo...
Education before Tobacco Profits
The most recent data shows that the tobacco industry spent more than $1 million a day sponsoring events and giveaways that target college students. Tobacco companies heavily target young adults (ages 18 to 21) ...
Where do your candidates stand on tobacco contributions?
The ten campaigns that accepted the most tobacco money are listed below. These ten campaigns combined accepted over $500,000 in campaign contributions from tobacco corporations. As you can see, both parties and...
U.S. Campaign Contributions 2014
Annually, the tobacco industry contributes over $1.6 million to federal candidates and spends approximately $16.6 million lobbying Congress.
This money buys the tobacco industry access to government official...
Tobacco Deaths & Taxes
In the past, the United States has been a leader in tobacco control. For the last 15 years, though, the U.S. has been falling behind as other countries have moved to protect their people from tobacco addiction ...
Why I Fight: News/Talk Radio Host & Author Forrest Carr
My Great Cigarette Rebellion
How my mother’s simple request to run an errand changed my life.
My doctor doesn’t believe I’ve never smoked.
In January I was diagnosed with a relatively rare form of kidney c...
Statement from the Chairman of the ASH Board of Trustees
Dr. Alfred Munzer, MD
50 years ago the 1st Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health clearly established the terrible toll taken by tobacco on the health of smokers and set the United States on a publ...
A Winnable Battle
The CDC identifies reducing tobacco as a “Winnable Battle” because tobacco is a public health priority with “large-scale impact on health and with known, effective strategies to address them.”
For ASH, the a...
FDA ‘Deeming’ Update
More organizations have revealed thecomments that they submitted to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on whether certain tobacco products should fall under the agency's authority.
Aug. 8 was the de...
Massive punitive damages against tobacco company in wrongful death suit.
MIAMI — A jury in northwestern Florida awarded a staggering $23 billion judgment late Friday against the country’s second-largest tobacco company for causing the death of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer ...
New York Victory: Court Upholds Law to Prohibit Tobacco Discounts
In 2013, New York City passed a law (Local Law 1021-A-2013) that sets a minimum price for cigarettes sold in the city. The law also prohibits the use of coupons or promotional discounts to lower that price. Tob...
Tobacco giant initiates EU court challenge
Tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PMI) wants to challenge new EU rules on tobacco to see if it can get the stricter labelling requirements changed.
The Marlboro manufacturer on Friday (27 June) said t...
Tobacco Firm seeks to say tobacco cuts risk
Smokeless tobacco maker Swedish Match is asking the Food and Drug Administration to certify its General-branded pouches of tobacco as less harmful than cigarettes.
The company with its North American headqu...
