ASH at NCTOH in New Orleans
Author: Alexa Arejian, ASH Project Assistant
Nichelle Gray presenting at NCTOH
August 2022 - This year, the National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH) was hosted in New Orleans, Louisiana, for the ...
Testimony to Health & Insurance for Colorado HB2022-1064
Testimony from Chris Bostic, Policy Director at ASH
March 16, 2022
Hello Madame Chair and Committee members. Thank you for considering this important bill and for the chance to weigh in. My name is Chris Bost...
Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California Make History for Public Health
Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach, California Make History for Public Health
Their Ordinances to Ban the Sale of Commercial Tobacco are in Effect Today
Media Contact:
Megan Arendt
(202) 390 – 9513
SACRAMEN...
Chris Bostic – Webinar on Tobacco Cessation, Production & Sales in Light of COVID-19
ASH Webinar on Tobacco Cessation, Production & Sales in Light of COVID-19
April 16, 2020
Statement from Chris Bostic, Deputy Director for Policy at ASH
I’m mostly going to focus on the responsibilities o...
Sheltering in Place – An Opportunity to Finally Quit Smoking
By: Dr. Harry Lando, Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota
Chris Bostic, Deputy Director for Policy, Action on Smoking & Health
We are living throug...
ASH Discusses Proposed D.C. Ban on the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products
On January 2, 2020, ASH staff Liz Furgurson and Chris Bostic (pictured above, second from the right) attended a public hearing of the DC City Council Judiciary and Public Safety Committee, which is conside...
Beverly Hills Study Session – February 5, 2019
The Beverly Hills City Council has voiced unanimous support for ending the sale of tobacco products in their city. Currently the city’s Health and Safety Commission is researching policy options to achieve that...
Recap of ASH’s progress in 2018
We hope you’ve had a healthy and happy 2018. Here at ASH, it’s been a productive year. One thing we are very proud of is how much our small staff of 6 people accomplishes. We wanted to share with you some of ou...
Monograph: The Economics of Tobacco & Tobacco Contol
This collaborative analysis from the National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization is the result of several years' work from noted experts in economics, public health and law. It is the most detai...
Can Poor Countries Combat Big Tobacco Too?
This year for World No Tobacco Day on May 31 the World Health Organization has recommended that countries adopt plain packaging as a way to reduce tobacco use, however so far mostly only rich countries have bee...
Liability: untapped potential in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
ASH Policy Director Chris Bostic, Richard Daynard, and Tamar Lawrence-Samuel (Corporate Accountability International) shed some light on the untapped potential in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
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Does Tobacco Violate Human Rights?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Megan Arendt
Office: 202-659-4310
Email: arendtm@ash.org
Does Tobacco Violate Human Rights?
Inter-American Commission Ponders Question
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 6, 2016...
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hearing: Tobacco Addiction and the Right to Health
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
ASH: Megan Arendt / ArendtM@ash.org
O’Neill Institute: Karen Teber / Km463@georgetown.edu
FIC Argentina: Patricia Gutkowski/ prensa@ficargentina.org
WASHINGTON, DC...
Petition Delivery
ASH joins allies to demand that the U.S. Department of Justice open an investigation on British American Tobacco (BAT)'s alleged corruption in East Africa.
L - R: Abby McGill (International Labor Rights Fo...
Big Trade Agreements … Big Tobacco
By Chris Bostic, for Health and Trade Network
As the role of tobacco companies in trade agreements on both sides of the Atlantic has been highlighted by a series of controversial events in recent weeks, this...
Obama Can Help End Tobacco Epidemic, Says ASH
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Contact: Megan Arendt
Office: 202-659-4310
Email: arendtm@ash.org
Obama Can Help End Tobacco Epidemic, Says ASH
Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) Calls on President Obama to...
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...
John Oliver Gives PMI a Lesson in Marketing
Comedian John Oliver took on Philip Morris International (PMI) Sunday night on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight." ASH Policy Director Chris Bostic was privileged to see the taping in person. It is a hilarious an...
Cigarettes, Unbranded
The products are virtually indistinguishable from one another, yet they retain more loyalty than Mac computers. And an expensive international legal battle is raging over them. Why? Because the products—cigaret...
How cigarette companies use free trade deals to sell more cigarettes to women and kids
Global trade negotiations in Washington this week will determine how cigarette companies will be able to market their products in developing nations—and potentially, overturn smoking restrictions around the wor...
US’s controversial TPP proposal is smoking gun for corporate agenda
Vietnam and other countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations face aggressive interference from Big Tobacco in the passage and implementation of public health policies, critics warn.
The...
The Hazard of Free-Trade Tobacco
Give thanks to Malaysia for heading off, at least temporarily, an American effort to weaken the ability of countries to impose stiff rules on the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products within their own b...
How Malaysia Gave Me My Mojo Back
By Chris Bostic, ASH Deputy Director for Policy
August 14th was a strange day in my professional life. I have worked to fight the global tobacco epidemic for almost exactly 12 years now, and there have been ...
Malaysia lauded for seeking to exclude tobacco in trade pact
Washington, DC 26 August - Tobacco control advocates from over 20 different countries lauded Malaysia for its announcement to exclude tobacco from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The TPP is a fre...
