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...
PHAI Takes Cigarette Companies to Court
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...
Leaked TPP investment chapter shows US tobacco control rules at risk
WASHINGTON — An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment “expectations” and hur...
Resources: Criminal Liability for Tobacco Executives
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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...
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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...
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 ...
Japan Tobacco threatens Ireland over plain packaging
One of the world’s largest tobacco firms has told the Government to immediately halt plain packaging legislation in the Dáil or face a High Court claim for damages.
JTI Ireland, owner of the Benson & Hedge...
John Oliver takes on tobacco industry
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver exposed Big Tobacco's international bullying tactics to target new and existing customers with their deadly products.
ASH supported their researchers in putting together th...
England bans smoking in cars with children
Drivers in England will be banned from smoking in their cars if they are carrying children as passengers.
The move, which will become law on 1 October, follows a similar ban in Wales and aims to protect young ...
Increasing the Minimum Age
In the past few years, several localities have increased the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21. The first to increase the minimum sales age to 21 was Needham, MA, a suburb of Boston, in 2005. Following ...
California declares electronic cigarettes a health threat
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California health officials Wednesday declared electronic cigarettes a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products, joining other states and health advocates ...
“We Have an Opportunity to Change History”
“Health must become a priority. The time is now,” said global tobacco control advocates in the Framework Convention Alliance video. They emphasize the importance of this year, 2015, and that leaders must ra...
In Our View: Raise Smoking Age to 21
One of the strongest arguments in favor of raising the legal age for tobacco purchases inadvertently comes from the tobacco industry itself. In 1986, in a confidential memo, an executive for Philip Morris wrote...
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...
Big Tobacco Tries to Don A New Look: Are You Buying?
Big Tobacco wants to reclaim the hearts and wallets of most adult Americans by rebranding its tarred image — pitching “smokeless” e-cigarettes, embracing the mantra “harm reduction,” and funding science that co...
The Case for Banning Cigarettes Entirely, Forever
Doctors in the U.K. will vote on Tuesday as to whether to support a “campaign to ban forever the sale of cigarettes to any individual born after the year 2000.” It’s an appealing thought exercise for public hea...
Tobacco companies have made cigarettes deadlier than ever
Over the last five decades, the tobacco industry has engineered cigarettes to be more addictive — and has also made them more dangerous.
Smokers suffer from higher risk of lung cancer and chronic obstructive p...
PH a step closer to graphic health warning on cigarettes
MANILA, Philippines – The graphic health warning bill is now one step closer to becoming a law.
The bicameral conference committee on Tuesday, June 10, reconciled the Senate and House of Representatives vers...
Tobacco Statistics & Facts
Together, we can phase cigarettes off the commercial market. Together, we can hold tobacco executives criminally liable for selling a deadly product. Together, we can protect the health of generations to come.
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What We Do
ASH takes action against the tobacco epidemic on a global scale. The tobacco industry does not limit itself to a geographic area, and neither can we. Our goal is to see U.S. tobacco control through a global l...
