ASH’s Accomplishments in 2020
ASH’s work is based on the principle that the behavior of the tobacco industry, marketing and selling lethal and addictive products, violates human rights. As such, we carry out 4 key areas of work:
(1) Phasi...
National Index Shines a Light on Tobacco Industry Interference in Lawmaking
National Index Shines a Light on Tobacco Industry Interference in Lawmaking
New Report Released by Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) Exposes What Tobacco Industry Wants Ignored
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National Index Shines a Light on Tobacco Industry Interference in Lawmaking
National Index Shines a Light on Tobacco Industry Interference in Lawmaking
New Report Released by Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) Exposes What Tobacco Industry Wants Ignored
Media Contact:
Megan Arendt...
STOP Partners: New Global Index Shows Aggressive Tobacco Industry Lobbying in 2019 and Exploitation of COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020
Data from 57 Countries Reveal Governments Aren’t Doing Enough to Protect Policy From Industry Influence
November 17, 2020
Read the full press release and global report from the STOP Partners and the G...
ASH 2015 Tobacco Industry Monitoring Report Card
ASH’s Tobacco Industry Monitoring (TIM) program works to track and publicize tobacco industry behavior. Our TIM program stems from Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which o...
Action Review: 1st Quarter Edition 2015
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...
‘Smoking Will Kill Up to a Billion People’
Smoking, which is described as the biggestpublic health disaster in the history of the world with its perpetrators likened to terrorists, will kill up to a billion people worldwide this century unless governmen...
China Leader’s Job at Odds With Tobacco Ties, Brookings Says
The brother of Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, who oversees public health, should be removed from his post as a top official in China’s state-owned tobacco monopoly to avoid conflicts of interest, a report pub...
Big Tobacco Buys Big Political Influence
Money is doled out to both sides of the aisle
The tobacco industry has always been a major player in congressional campaigns, but a new online map ( ash.org/map) shows just how pervasive tobacco money is in p...
Tobacco Giant Drops Appeal
Philip Morris, the major tobacco producer, has decided not to pursue its legal challenge of a Norwegian law that forbids retailers from displaying tobacco products. The company’s Norwegian unit, Philip Morris N...
New Website Tracks Tobacco Contributions
A website has been launched that features searchable databases of all campaign contributions and gifts from tobacco lobbyists to state legislators.
The website, www.tobacco.money.com, also encourages lawmake...
New Website Highlights Tobacco Lobbyists’ Campaign Contributions and Gifts to Oklahoma Lawmakers
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA (October 1, 2012)A new website with searchable databases of all campaign contributions and gifts from tobacco lobbyists to members of the Oklahoma State Legislature was announced today. ...
Top 5 Recipients @ tobaccomoney.com
New website tobaccomoney.com highlights campaign contributions and gifts from tobacco lobbyists to members of the Oklahoma State Legislator. Here is a listing of some of the websites top 5 recipients:
Top Re...
Plain Cigarette Packaging: Australia’s Victory
“We have taken on big tobacco... and we have won”, said Australia’s Attorney-General Nicola Roxon, hailing the judgement from Australia’s High Court that the country’s tobacco companies had failed in their chal...
FCAP Protests Tobacco Industry-Backed Party-List Group
A NETWORK of anti-tobacco advocates is asking the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to disqualify a party-list organization, accusing it of being a front group for the powerful tobacco industry
In a letter add...
Plain Package Cigarettes Reduce Smoking Appeal: Study
A new study has discredited the tobacco industry's assertion that there is no proof plain packaging on cigarette packs reduces the appeal of smoking.
Scientists from Canada, the United States and Brazil cond...
Unleashing the Campaign Contributions of Corporations
Way back in February of this year, more than two-thirds of Californians believed raising more money from tobacco companies to finance cancer research was a good idea. That was before industry money kicked in.
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Smoke Signals: Plans of Big Tobacco Plain to See
IT'S easy to laugh at Big Tobacco. Fresh from defeat in Australia's High Court, it has taken its fight against plain cigarette packets to New Zealand where British American Tobacco warns such legislation could ...
U.S. Court Strikes Down Graphic Warnings on Cigarettes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a law that requires tobacco companies to use graphic health warnings, such as of a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his throat.
The 2-1 dec...
Tobacco Boss Says Some Regulation OK
New Zealand's tobacco industry is already heavily regulated and the Government's plain packaging proposals for cigarette packets is a step too far, the country's biggest cigarette manufacturer has said.
In a...
Hidden Hand of Big Tobacco Leads to WTO Challenge
BIG tobacco has opened a new front in its war against Australia's plain packaging law.
The World Trade Organisation has revealed that within hours of the government's victory in the High Court, Ukraine upgra...
Philip Morris International Expands its Portfolio
Dips toe into alternative tobacco products worldwide
NEW YORK -- Philip Morris International, the largest tobacco company in the world recently announced yet another stream of revenue growth. With more reg...
The Global Tobacco Epidemic is Far from Over
The global tobacco epidemic is far from being over. A recent study published in the Lancet suggests that the number of tobacco users remains very high in many parts of the world, particularly low and middle inc...
UB Researcher Finds Big Tobacco Has Powerful Global Grip
A new study led by a University at Buffalo researcher shows that Big Tobacco has a strong grip globally, making for a huge challenge when it comes to curbing tobacco use around the world.
In what is being de...
Fund profits from an addictive investment
THE taxpayer-owned Future Fund is profiting handsomely from tobacco investments, despite Canberra's plain packaging laws.
As the High Court's landmark ruling in favour of plain packaging triggered a slide in...
