…= 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…
…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 any…
…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…
