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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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...
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...
Pressure to End $30m Tobacco Investment
THE NSW government is considering abandoning tobacco investments after a backlash from health experts and anti-smoking campaigners.
It has for the first time admitted to having nearly $30 million invested in...
‘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...
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...
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...
Campaign Against Missouri Cigarette Tax Hike Gears Up
JEFFERSON CITY • Off-brand cigarette-makers are shouldering most of the cost so far of the campaign against a cigarette tax increase on Missouri’s Nov. 6 ballot.
Cheyenne International LLC of Grover, N.C., a...
WHO Welcomes Landmark Decision from Australia’s High Court on Tobacco Plain Packaging Act
Statement by WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan
15 August 2012
The World Health Organization (WHO) strongly welcomes the landmark decision from Australia’s High Court to dismiss a legal challenge from t...
Australian Court Approves Tobacco Pack Logo Ban
(Reuters) - Australia called on the world to match its tough new anti-tobacco marketing laws that will ban logos on cigarette packs, after its highest court on Wednesday dismissed a challenge from global manufa...
Imperial Tobacco Admit Giving Staff Free Cigarettes ‘For Research’
New Zealand Tobacco Manufacturer Imperial Tobacco is under investigation for allegedly providing their 250 employees with free cigarettes samples. Imperial Tobacco Commercial Boss Brendan Walker confirmed the g...
Cigarette Makers Help Fund Anti-Tax Effort
The Missouri Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association PAC received a $200,000 donation from Cheyenne International a North Carolina based company and maker of Decade cigarettes. The donation is to ...
