ASH’s Accomplishments in 2022
…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…
…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…
…More than 98% of the cigarette market is filtered cigarettes, and its likely many people who smoke would quit rather than switch to filter-less cigarettes. Cigarette filters do not add…
…soon. Known as Prop 31 and SB-793, this law ends the sale of all flavored e-cigarettes, menthol cigarettes, and most other flavored tobacco products. “Delayed implementation of this crucial law…
…sale of tobacco products a human rights violation that the international community must immediately remedy. Cigarettes are the only consumer product that kills when used exactly as their manufacturer intends,…
…health in 2021 through the rule of law by successfully suing the FDA for their failure to take action on menthol cigarettes, along with our co-plaintiffs at the African American…
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…
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…
…right to health.” Katrin Schaller, Head of the Cancer Prevention Unit at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), clarifies, “In Germany, advertising for tobacco products, e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products…
…to anyone born after 2008 but would also lower nicotine in cigarettes and reduce the number of retailers dramatically. People may also be aware that there is a bill pending…
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…
…once every 5 years). We took the opportunity to draw the committee’s attention to the social injustice and health inequities caused by the predatory marketing of menthol cigarettes to African…
…menthol from cigarettes. And, the FDA recently stated that they will propose a rule to lower nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels. All of this is good – particularly for…
…most notably, the right to health. Nearly 9 in 10 (88.5%) of African Americans ages 12 and older who smoke use menthol cigarettes as a result of targeted advertisements that…
…as e-cigarettes and little cigars, remain on the market. Flavored cigars are an overlooked tobacco product that has particularly troubling rates of youth use. In 2009 when flavored cigarettes were…
…plastic cartridges. Generating even more waste are disposable e-cigarettes, designed entirely for one-time use. E-cigarette waste has potentially more serious environmental effects than cigarette butts (source). E-cigarettes introduce plastic, nicotine…
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…
…be significantly reduced. 3.) Reduction in nicotine in cigarettes to below addictive levels (similar to the Biden administration’s announcement in June 2022). Cigarettes will no longer be addictive, and therefore…
…Health (ASH) applauds President Biden and FDA Commissioner Califf for beginning the process to reduce nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels. Cigarettes are still killing nearly half a million Americans…
…and local governments 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…
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…