Tobacco Industry Accused of Murder: Criminal Case Against Tobacco Industry, ASH reports Arendtm July 17, 2017 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases Action on Smoking & Health Draws on “Sick of Smoking’s” Current Legal Challenge Against Tobacco Companies in the Netherlands to Highlight Criminal Liability WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tuesday, July 18, 2017 – ...
Phase Out the Commercial Sale of Cigarettes Arendtm May 21, 2017 Project Sunset is an ASH-led global campaign to convince policy makers to phase out the sale of commercial combustible tobacco products. It is focused entirely on the sale, not individual possession or use. The...
Federal tobacco control is at risk in the US Arendtm February 10, 2017 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The man Donald Trump has chosen to direct health policy for the federal government has close ties to the tobacco industry he will be charged with regulating. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who was confirmed as health...
IASLC Statement on Philip Morris’ New Manifesto Highlights the Importance of Tobacco Control Arendtm February 3, 2017 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News On February 1, 2017, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) issued the following statement: “According to its own public reports, in 2016 Phillip Morris manufactured 800 billion...
RJ Reynolds Can’t Make Up Its Mind Arendtm October 31, 2016 Blog, Featured News & Events, Related News, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates In California, RJ Reynolds is spending millions to prevent a new tax on cigarettes. But in Missouri, RJ Reynolds is spending millions to promote a new tax on cigarettes. Tobacco taxes are proven to prevent kid...
Who really won the legal battle between Philip Morris and Uruguay? Arendtm July 29, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The David-Goliath battle between Uruguay and Philip Morris is an iconic case because it so clearly illustrates the way corporations can use international investment treaties to attack regulations made in the pu...
We Agree: Put Big Tobacco out of business Arendtm May 13, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The embattled tobacco industry is struggling to fight off one of its fiercest and possibly most dangerous foes to date: the World Health Organization. The Hong Kong native who has run the U.N. body for the p...
Michael Bloomberg says big tobacco preys on the world’s poor Arendtm October 20, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Bloomberg said: "Someday somebodies going to come along and say to the people who are running these companies, you are killing people. If you kill somebody on the streets with a gun or beat them over the head, ...
Hillary pressed to take on Big Tobacco Arendtm April 20, 2015 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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...
Action Review: 1st Quarter Edition 2015 ash April 10, 2015 E-Newsletter 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...
PHAI Takes Cigarette Companies to Court Arendtm March 27, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Public Health Advocacy Institute (“PHAI”) announced today that its newly formed Center for Public Health Litigation has filed lawsuits against two major tobacco companies and several local distributors on...
Criminal Liability and Human Rights Violations Arendtm March 13, 2015 9 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...
Videos Arendtm March 12, 2015 Learn more about ways Big Tobacco is targeting you, without your knowledge> Learn more about ASH's social experiment to see if smoking is attractive on Tinder> ...
Last Week Tonight: Irish Plain Packaging Cigarettes Arendtm March 11, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News John Oliver of HBO's Last Week Tonight continued his original episode on the tobacco industry with this response. Watch here>...
Temporary injunction bars man from lighting up inside his Washington home after neighbors sue Arendtm March 11, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 (http://bit.ly/1BrlPLl ) reports that Edwin Gray's next door neigh...
Senator Warren calls Philip Morris on Abusive Trade Lawsuit. Arendtm February 27, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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...
Tobacco Giants Battle New Ads Painting Them As Liars Arendtm February 23, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm February 20, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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...
President Obama on Tobacco & Trade Arendtm January 23, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Remarks by the President at Meeting of the Export Council December 11, 2014 The big bugaboo that’s lifted up there is tobacco companies suing poorer countries to make sure that anti-smoking legislation is b...
Trade deals must not undermine fight against tobacco Arendtm December 10, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Australian expertise in tobacco control is helping save lives around the world, but that work could be undone. Every day, 5500 children in India start using tobacco. If they continue the habit, as many do, the...
Malaysia Defends Tobacco Control in TPP & FCTC Arendtm October 27, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Almost 200 countries signed the World Health Organisation’s Tobacco Control Convention and are obliged to take measures to curb tobacco use. But the industry has hit back. A big tobacco company, Philip Morris,...
Health Preemption Behind Closed Doors: Trade Agreements and Fast-Track Authority Arendtm July 18, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Eric Crosbie, MA, Mariaelena Gonzalez, PhD, and Stanton A. Glantz, PhD ABSTRACT Noncommunicable diseases result from consuming unhealthy products, including tobacco, which are promoted by transnational co...
Electronic Cigarette Executives Get Schooled In Senate Hearing ash June 19, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News "I think we have seen this movie before," Senator Richard Blumenthal said. "It is called big nicotine comes to children near you and you are using the same kinds of tactics and promotions and ads that were used...
Facing the Wrong Way Arendtm May 5, 2014 Blog The Chamber of Commerce is undercutting its trade agenda by supporting Big Tobacco. Since early in 2011, much of our attention here at ASH has been focused on the nexus between trade and tobacco, in particu...
Pressure to End $30m Tobacco Investment ash November 6, 2012 Blog, Related News THE NSW government is considering abandoning tobacco investments after a backlash from health experts and anti-smoking campaigners. It has for the first time admitted to having nearly $30 million invested in...
