UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution
The UN Environmental Assembly adopted a resolution to begin negotiations on an international, legally-binding treaty to end plastic pollution. These treaty negotiations offer an important opportunity to improve...
Environmental Disaster: Tobacco farming, production, use and disposal
Author: Maia Murphey, ASH Program and Communications Intern
From manufacture to consumption, tobacco products are not only a dangerous public health concern, but also an environmental concern. In addition t...
WHO, WHO FCTC & UNEP Webinar
Fighting tobacco product waste: Holding tobacco industry accountable for its environmental footprint
June 2, 2022 - Tobacco control experts, including ASH's Executive Director Laurent Huber, and environmental ...
Report: Tobacco and the Environment
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Our Environment Must be Protected from Tobacco Product Waste
New Report from 3 Organizations Highlights European Union, French, and American Progress
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Our Environment Must be Protected from Tobacco Product Waste
New Report from 3 Organizations Highlights European Union, French, and American Progress
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Happy Earth Day!
Most people view cigarettes as a health problem, but they are a huge environmental problem as well. The tobacco control community is increasingly recognizing the importance of this issue; this year’s theme for...
Tobacco and the Environment
Cigarettes are most commonly categorized as a health problem, but they are a huge environmental problem as well. The entire life cycle of a cigarette has an impact on the environment – from growing the tobacco ...
Parallel issues
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Academic articles
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Regional Mechanisms
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The Human Rights Council and Universal Periodic Review
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Environmental Harms of Tobacco
Most people view cigarettes as a health problem, but they are a huge environmental problem as well. The entire life cycle of a cigarette has an impact on the environment – from growing the tobacco to throwing a...
For an Earth Free of Tobacco Waste
By Yogi Hale Hendlin, PhD, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UCSF
We all know tobacco kills. But few stop to consider how tobacco also kills the planet.
Especially as it serves no socia...
Hold the Tobacco Industry Responsible for Harming our Global Environment
By Clif Curtis
For decades now, with cigarette sales having increased to more than six trillion in 2016, tobacco producers have refused to accept any significant responsibility for the serious, global enviro...
Action Review: 4th Quarter 2016
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber at HHS
Statement from ASH on E-Cigarettes Following the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy ...
Human Rights Day 2016
December 10th is recognized worldwide as Human Rights Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. T...
What if Tobacco Vanished?
Cigarettes have been commercially marketed and sold in the United States for over 100 years. The negative health effects of tobacco have been public knowledge for at least the last 50 years. The death and disea...
ASH Environmental Webinar Recap
When we think of tobacco, a lot of health issues immediately spring to mind – lung cancer, throat cancer, cardiovascular disease, tooth decay, asthma. But tobacco products also wreak havoc on our environment, a...
Earth Day 2016
The harmful impacts of smoking go well beyond each individual smoker. Cigarettes have a negative impact on the environment throughout their entire life cycle - from growing the tobacco to disposing of the butts...
