…for protecting Americans’ human rights. Tobacco companies targeting the Black community with menthol cigarettes infringes on their right to be free from racial discrimination, as well as harming their health….
ASH is building a world where your family is better protected from cigarettes, an addictive and lethal product. But we need your help to counter the power and influence of…
…as stress, limited resources, and sometimes hopelessness, to foster reliance on cigarettes as a false coping mechanism. Moreover, the affordability of cigarettes plays a significant role. Tobacco companies lobby to…
…warnings on individual cigarettes Alabama lawmakers pass bill to ban smoking, vaping inside a car with children New York Must End the Sale of Menthol Cigarettes and Protect LGBTQ Lives…
Eleven years old is way too young to walk into a store and be able to buy a pack of cigarettes. That’s how old I was when I experimented with…
…when lobbyists work on behalf of companies whose products kill when used exactly as intended. There is no safe use of cigarettes; they kill up to half of all users…
…and environmental groups, who assert that cigarettes filters are a source of significant and hazardous plastic pollution. Every year, 4.5 trillion cigarettes butts persist for 10 or more years. the…
…– assume filters make cigarettes safer rather than more dangerous. It’s much too early in the process to predict the outcome of our efforts, but we’ve certainly made a good…
…trillion cigarettes consumed globally find their way into the environment, becoming the top waste item collected from coastlines and urban settings. Cigarette filters are small enough to be ingested by…
…“Tobacco is an environmental hazard, and the cellulose acetate filter in cigarettes is a fraudulent marketing tool that is harmful, not helpful, to health.” Click here or select a post…
…rule, and we still aren’t at the finish line. While we’ve been waiting, approximately 266,000 new Americans have started smoking menthol cigarettes. Approximately 9,900 have died from smoking menthol cigarettes.[1]…
…so that anyone born after 2008 will not be allowed to legally buy cigarettes there in their lifetimes. Current smokers of legal age will continue to be allowed to purchase…
…Administration for it’s inaction on menthol cigarettes. The decades of well-documented racialized and predatory tobacco industry targeting of African Americans, specifically with menthol flavoring, is a human rights issue and…
…targeting African Americans for generations with menthol cigarettes. As a result, over 85% of African Americans who smoke, smoke menthol cigarettes, and the consequences are dire. Although African Americans usually…
…= 6,455) showed: 62.3% of adults supported a policy prohibiting the sale of menthol cigarettes. The CDC Research Brief adds, “Approximately two-thirds of respondents who did not currently use tobacco…
…because there is no new federal plan in place to accelerate a reduction in smoking, with the possible exception of reducing nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels. There’s a bit…
…a simple policy that phases out the commercial sale of cigarettes to them — acting on the science that we have had for at least six decades that there is…
…their Patients Who Smoke Australia: Individual cigarettes could carry ‘smoking kills’ warnings: health minister Netherlands to ban smoking on playgrounds, only allow tobacconists to sell cigarettes City of Baltimore Sues…
…ban sales of tobacco products to anyone born in 2009 or after. It will also drastically reduce the number of tobacco retail outlets and lower levels of nicotine in cigarettes…
…rule on banning menthol cigarettes. ASH provided a statement during the FDA listening session on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. ASH continued its lawsuit against Juul for misleading packaging. Using…
…have shown that people who smoke – like people who face any addiction –– find it easier to kick their addiction if cigarettes aren’t staring them in the face in…
…attorney in the landmark case forcing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin the rulemaking process to ban menthol cigarettes. ASH, along with the African American Tobacco Control Leadership…
…“filter” itself led some to assume that they were vital to keep cigarettes from being even more harmful. Tobacco was almost completely off the radar of government delegations. By the…
…They make cigarettes more deadly, not less. Cigarette filters are wholly unnecessary. Once cigarettes are smoked, the filters become cigarette butts, which are full of toxins and carcinogens. A small…
…annually. Filters make cigarettes more, not less, dangerous. And 98% of people who smoke use filtered cigarettes. By design, they make it easier to start and to keep smoking. If…
