…policies, practices and priorities. https://www.savingblacklives.org. About Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) Founded in 1967, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is America’s oldest anti-tobacco organization, dedicated to a world…
…their statement that it “…intends to make this proposed rule one of the Agency’s highest priorities”; a priority we emphatically agree with. Menthol advertising violates the right to health of…
Media Contact: Megan Arendt arendtm@ash.org (202)390-9513 97 Organizations Agree, UN Human Rights Committee Must Address Menthol Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) leads 97 organizations from around the world in…
…non-menthol users, and therefore have a harder time quitting (source). The health consequences of African American adult smokers speak volumes: 67% of overall health disparities in mortality in African American…
…action. If tobacco companies truly supported women’s rights and especially their right to health, every tobacco company would stop selling tobacco products. Read additional resources from STOP Partners here>…
Submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on March 3, 2021….
…no one is left behind. The WHO FCTC reaffirms the right of all people to the highest attainable standard of health. My fourth point concerns the need for a multisectoral…
…right now would be ludicrous. The same might be said for working to end the tobacco epidemic during an historic pandemic, deep racial fissures, and in the midst of an…
…of tobacco is irreconcilable with the human right to health. For the tobacco industry, the UNGPs [United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights] therefore require the cessation of…
…health and human rights. As the Danish Institute for Human Rights concluded a few years ago, “tobacco is deeply harmful to human health, and there can be no doubt that…
…Commissioner for Human Rights and other UN agencies and processes, including (among numerous others): Suggested addition to the General Comment on Scientific Progress and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Response…
…number of human rights, most clearly, the right to health. At ASH, we’ve been working on a human rights approach to tobacco control for several years, but in 2020, the…
…on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) includes requirements to ensure that all people have the right to public health. Tobacco violates numerous human rights, but most…
…Health (ASH) Dr. Flavia Senkubuge, President at The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa Professor Steve Marks, François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights at Harvard T.H. Chan School…
…Puznowski (left) with 2 youth advocates during the public hearing for the Dolgeville Tobacco law, and author Rachel Johnson (right) Preparation 1. Work with your local youth group or if…
…be removed from the market. As the Danish Institute for Human Rights put it: “Tobacco is deeply harmful to human health, and there can be no doubt that the production…
In August, ASH welcomed a new staffer to the team, Carol Maytum (pictured top right). She is based out of Sacramento, California and gives us boots on the ground for…
…2020, Pages 1054–1055: A Holistic Approach to Human Rights and the Tobacco Epidemic Tobacco Control in the United States: Failure to Protect the Right to Health Hannaford grocery store chain…
…his health and took him from us way too soon. Even after a year if someone mentions his name, it hurts. The only blessing is my brother asked Jesus to…
…release on our report to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council under its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process regarding the United States’ tobacco control efforts within a human rights framework….
…steering committees of brilliant public health professionals – one domestic, one global – to help us find the right path forward for Project Sunset. I’m proud to say that both…
…World Health Organization. It’s an evidence-based treaty that reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health. It was the fastest ratified treaty in UN history, and…
…the human right to health.” The tobacco industry violates human rights every day, and by allowing it governments fail in their duty to protect their citizens. But let’s put aside…
…known as the right to health, this right is enshrined in the WHO Constitution, and is a fundamental human right that ASH strives to achieve through every aspect of our…
