2021 Annual Report
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In 2021, despite operating under the global COVID-19 pandemic, ASH implemented numerous programs to accomplish its Mission, “to advocate for innovative legal and polic...
Global Mechanisms – The United Nations
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Tobacco and Human Rights Basics
This section is designed to be the starting point for advocates new to the nexus between tobacco control and human rights. These resources are intended to give a short overview. If you are interested in learnin...
FINALLY! Corrective Ads Published!
**UPDATE 3** - Beginning on November 26, 2017 the public will begin seeing long-awaited “corrective statements” by the tobacco industry on television and in newspapers.
The major U.S. tobacco companies were ...
On Our Way to Achieving the “Impossible”
When ASH first began its post-2015 UN development agenda campaign in 2013, it was perceived as nearly impossible to integrate tobacco control into the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), let alone the Fina...
Obama Can Help End Tobacco Epidemic, Says ASH
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Obama Can Help End Tobacco Epidemic, Says ASH
Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) Calls on President Obama to...
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...
Australian plain packaging leads to dramatic declines in tobacco use
The tobacco industry has been hit by the heaviest declines on record amid otherwise strong economic growth for the nation, the latest figures show.
Treasurer Joe Hockey may have described the national accoun...
Thailand Raises Minimum Age to 20 to Purchase Cigarettes
BANGKOK, 28 May 2014 (NNT) – The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the tobacco draft act which prohibits sale of cigarettes to those under 20 years old and raise punishment for offenders.
Deputy Prime Minister Y...
The Wrinkler
We've unlocked the secret to expediting the aging process!
You can now look far older than you really are. The secret is smoking!
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Where is a smok...
Tobacco Taxes are Front & Center in Influential Post-2015 Report!
The UN’s post-2015 development goal process is still in full swing. Member states have spent the last week discussing ways to finance the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
These discussions are all s...
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...
Hillary pressed to take on Big Tobacco
Public health groups are urging newly minted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to follow in her husband’s footsteps and take on Big Tobacco.
The calls for Clinton to make the issue part of he...
Use of E-Cigarettes Rises Sharply Among Teenagers, Report Says
E-cigarettes have arrived in the life of the American teenager.
Use of the devices among middle- and high school students tripled from 2013 to 2014, according to federal data released on Thursday, bringing t...
Action Review: 1st Quarter Edition 2015
Tobacco and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The inclusion of tobacco control in the Sustainable Development Goals has been in the works for several years. It is due to various advocacy efforts of the...
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...
We’re Almost There!
In the past two and half years, ASH has been working to ensure that tobacco control is included in the new UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals are being created to set countries’ development ag...
New Global Fund to Help Countries Defend Smoking Laws
Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced on Wednesday that they had started a global fund to help low- and middle-income countries fight legal challenges to their smoking l...
ASH participates in the World Conference on Tobacco or Health 2015
This week, several representatives of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) will be attending the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi. WCTOH is a five-day scientific conference where presenters hig...
Resources: Criminal Liability for Tobacco Executives
ASH Resources
Blog: If Drug Dealers Can Be Found Criminally Liable, Can Big Tobacco?
Description: Drug dealers can and have been charged with murder or manslaughter when death results from the drugs they sold...
Criminal Liability and Human Rights Violations
Tobacco products kill more people than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. Left unchecked, tobacco use will kill 1 billion people this century. As one state Supreme Court...
Publications
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Policy Papers
ASH works hard to inform and educate policy makers and the public about tobacco prevention and the tobacco industry. A number of informative policy papers ...
Plain Packaging for Tobacco Will Become the Global Norm
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Office: 202-659-4310
Email: arendtm@ash.org
PLAIN PACKAGING FOR TOBACCO WILL BECOME THE GLOBAL NORM
But will the U.S. be last?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 1...
Breaking News: MPs back standardised cigarette packaging
MPs have voted in favour of introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes in the UK.
It means from 2016 every packet will look the same except for the make and brand name, with graphic photos accompanying ...
