Amos Hausner | Smokefree Israel
Hear this interview from Amos Hausner who is involved in the Smokefree kaupapa in Israel.
He's currently in Aotearoa and spoke with Dale Husband.
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France: MEPs adopt neutral package for cigarettes
The measure, if adopted by the full Parliament, will take effect in May 2016. The ban on smoking in cars in the presence of a minor was also adopted.
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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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Contact: Megan Arendt
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 ...
Last Week Tonight: Irish Plain Packaging Cigarettes
John Oliver of HBO's Last Week Tonight continued his original episode on the tobacco industry with this response.
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Temporary injunction bars man from lighting up inside his Washington home after neighbors sue
WASHINGTON – A temporary order by a Superior Court judge is keeping a man from smoking inside his home in the District of Columbia.
WJLA-TV (https://bit.ly/1BrlPLl ) reports that Edwin Gray's next door neig...
Time for the New “Normal” in Tobacco Packaging
Plain Packaging Should be Universal
Yesterday, Ireland became the first country in Europe and the second country in the world to pass legislation requiring plain packaging for tobacco products. Under the new r...
Ireland Passes Tobacco Plain Packaging Law
Dublin: Ireland has became the second country in the world to pass a law introducing mandatory plain packaging for tobacco products, prompting the tobacco industry to threaten legal action.
It follows Austr...
#StopTobaccoTactics
Earlier this year Tel Aviv University’s School of Marketing, under pressure from the Israel Cancer Association, canceled an event sponsored by Philip Morris International.
Unfortunately, victories like this...
Senator Warren calls Philip Morris on Abusive Trade Lawsuit.
By Senator Elizabeth Warren
The United States is in the final stages of negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive free-trade agreement with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore and seven other cou...
Statement from Executive Director on the 25th Anniversary of Smoke-free Skies
Smoke-free in the Skies, but not on the Ground
Just 25 years ago, smoking was a pervasive norm. People could smoke at work, in restaurants, and even on airplanes. Non-smokers were exposed to second hand smoke ...
Statement from ASH on the 25th Anniversary of Smoke-free Skies
The absence of smoking on commercial airliners is something we all now take for granted. But it wasn’t always that way. The ban on smoking was the culmination of years of effort by many individuals and public ...
What Flying Was Like Before the Smoke Cleared
If you think the air travel experience generally stinks now, consider what it was like before smoking was banned on domestic flights 25 years ago.
Tracy Sear, a flight attendant with US Airways, was looking ov...
Tobacco Giants Battle New Ads Painting Them As Liars
WASHINGTON (AP) — Never underestimate the staying power of big tobacco.
In 2006, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the nation's largest cigarette makers to publicly admit that they had lied for deca...
Florida Bill Seeks to Shield Tobacco Industry from Lawsuits
The powerful cigarette industry reignited Florida’s tobacco wars Wednesday with a one-sentence bill that would strip away the right of thousands of Florida victims from collecting millions in damages....
But f...
Lessons Learned: Smoke-free Air
Only about half of Americans are protected from exposure to secondhand smoke, whether in public places or at work.
Yet, a growing number of foreign countries have achieved complete protection, often in the f...
Legal Victories in International Tobacco Control 2014
Philip Morris International was fined in Brazil for targeting youth
The consumer protection agency from the Brazilian state of São Paulo has fined Philip Morris over $480,000. The agency acted after a fo...
Tobacco Corporations Buy Political Influence
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Contact: Megan Arendt
Office: 202-659-4310
Email: arendtm@ash.org
TOBACCO CORPORATIONS BUY POLITICAL INFLUENCE
Big Tobacco Contributes Over $1.6 Million Annually to Federal Can...
