ASH Statement on Facebook and Instagram Prohibiting Tobacco and E-cigarette Influencer Promotions Arendtm December 20, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News Statement from Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) On December 18, 2019, Facebook (including Instagram) announced that it would no longer allow influencers using its platforms to promote tobacco products, inc...
First long-term study of the health impact of vaping points the way to regulation of all tobacco products Arendtm December 17, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News First long-term study of the health impact of vaping points the way to regulation of all tobacco products Statement by Action on Smoking and Health On December 16, 2019, the first long-term study of e-cigaret...
The FDA tried to ban flavors years before the vaping outbreak. Top Obama officials rejected the plan Arendtm October 4, 2019 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Excerpt: Instead, over the course of 46 days, a deluge of more than 100 tobacco industry lobbyists and small business advocates met with White House officials as they weighed whether to include the ban as pa...
Statement from Action on Smoking & Health Regarding Trump Administration’s Move to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes Arendtm September 11, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News WASHINGTON, DC - September 11, 2019 - The Trump administration just announced that it will seek to ban flavored electronic cigarettes. This move follows the news of six mysterious deaths linked to vaping. Actio...
Is Vaping Bad For You? Is It Safe? Experts Weigh In Arendtm August 29, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events Laurent Huber, Executive Director of ASH: Combustible tobacco products like cigarettes are extremely toxic, killing approximately 6 million people per year. Given that cigarettes are so ridiculously toxic, ...
New, sweeping federal rules bar e-cigarette sales to teens younger than 18 Arendtm May 5, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Obama administration on Thursday announced controversial new rules for electronic cigarettes, cigars, hookahs and pipe tobacco, including barring the sales of the products to teens under 18 years old. Th...
Are E-Cigarettes a Healthy Way to Quit Smoking? Arendtm April 12, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Supporters say they appear to be effective. Critics say there are better and safer ways to quit smoking. Read both sides in the Wall Street Journal here>...
On Twitter, e-cigarette ads spread like secondhand smoke Arendtm January 27, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Several states have enacted laws limiting where e-cigarettes can be used -- after citing public health concerns -- but as no federal law has been created to curtail e-cigarette advertising, companies are resort...
U.K. Approves E-Cigarette Prescriptions To Help People Quit Smoking Arendtm January 6, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's drug regulators have given the go-ahead for a British American Tobacco electronic-cigarette vaping device to be sold as a quit smoking medicine, the first such product to be given a...
American Pediatrics say to raise the legal min age for tobacco to 21 Arendtm October 27, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News In a comprehensive set of policies issued during its National Conference & Exhibition, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) presents extensive recommendations to protect our nation's youth from the pern...
New study links e-cig use in teens to smoking initiation Arendtm September 1, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events Importance Exposure to nicotine in electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) is becoming increasingly common among adolescents who report never having smoked combustible tobacco. Objective To evaluate whether e...
E-cigarettes proving to be a danger to teens Arendtm August 13, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News In 2014, e-cigarettes surpassed cigarettes as the most commonly used tobacco product by middle school and high school students, according to an annual U.S. survey. Teens’ fascination with this nicotine-disp...
The cool factor: Teens report positive feedback to using e-cigarettes Arendtm July 31, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News An estimated 40 percent of teen users of e-cigarettes have never smoked tobacco, a new report finds, adding to the worries that the devices are attracting a whole new group of underage user, not just teens tryi...
Use of E-Cigarettes Rises Sharply Among Teenagers, Report Says Arendtm April 16, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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...
Cambridge increases tobacco purchase age to 21; bans e-cigs from restaurants Arendtm February 6, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Cambridge City Council passed last week a series of controversial amendments to the Cambridge Tobacco Ordinance, including an increase in the purchase age to 21 years old and limits on smoking in public par...
Big Tobacco Tries to Don A New Look: Are You Buying? ash August 11, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News 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...
New Jersey Senate passes bill to raise age to buy tobacco products to 21 ash July 1, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News TRENTON, New Jersey — New Jersey might become the first state in the nation to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products and electronic cigarettes to 21. The state Senate on Monday passed a bill that wo...
One in Five US Adults Use Tobacco Products ash June 30, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News Adult smoking rates have dropped from 42% in 1965 to 21.3% today, but the rate of decrease is slowing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) latest issue of Morbidity and Mortali...
NYC’s cigarette price-hiking regulations ruled legal Arendtm June 23, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News A legal challenge to a new law aimed at keeping New York City tobacco prices sky high has gone up in smoke. Manhattan federal Judge Thomas Greisa on Wednesday sided with the city in a lawsuit filed in January...
E-Cigarettes & the Fight Against Tobacco ash February 19, 2014 4 Media inquiries: Megan Arendt media@ash.org | (202) 659 - 4310 Electronic cigarettes have hit the American market with force, and their use has increased dramatically in just a few years. The tobacco indust...
E-cigarette use doubles among teen students, CDC reports ash September 6, 2013 Featured News & Events, Related News E-cigarettes have been surging in popularity, and a new government study suggests this effect is trickling down to U.S. teens. Electronic cigarettes' popularity and safety concerns on the rise New finding...
Reynolds American Subsidiary Sues E-cig Maker ash November 6, 2012 Related News A subsidiary of Reynolds American Inc. is suing an Alabama electronic-cigarette retailer, accusing the company of trademark infringement of Reynolds’ Camel and Winston brands, and unfair and deceptive trade pra...
