Princeton, NJ bans tobacco sales to customers under 21
Princeton has become the fifth New Jersey town to ban tobacco sales to customers under 21.
The town's health board unanimously adopted the ordinance.
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Use of E-Cigarettes Rises Sharply Among Teenagers, Report Says
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...
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...
ASH participates in the World Conference on Tobacco or Health 2015
This week, several representatives of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) will be attending the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi. WCTOH is a five-day scientific conference where presenters hig...
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 ...
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 (http://bit.ly/1BrlPLl ) reports that Edwin Gray's next door neigh...
Time for the New “Normal” in Tobacco Packaging
Plain Packaging Should be Universal
Yesterday, Ireland became the first country in Europe and the second country in the world to pass legislation requiring plain packaging for tobacco products. Under the new r...
#StopTobaccoTactics
Earlier this year Tel Aviv University’s School of Marketing, under pressure from the Israel Cancer Association, canceled an event sponsored by Philip Morris International.
Unfortunately, victories like this...
Statement from Executive Director on the 25th Anniversary of Smoke-free Skies
Smoke-free in the Skies, but not on the Ground
Just 25 years ago, smoking was a pervasive norm. People could smoke at work, in restaurants, and even on airplanes. Non-smokers were exposed to second hand smoke ...
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 ...
Tobacco Giants Battle New Ads Painting Them As Liars
WASHINGTON (AP) — Never underestimate the staying power of big tobacco.
In 2006, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the nation's largest cigarette makers to publicly admit that they had lied for deca...
Florida Bill Seeks to Shield Tobacco Industry from Lawsuits
The powerful cigarette industry reignited Florida’s tobacco wars Wednesday with a one-sentence bill that would strip away the right of thousands of Florida victims from collecting millions in damages....
But f...
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 ...
Tobacco sale ban for US campus shops
One of the world's top universities is taking a smoking ban a step further this week, as Stanford University prohibits the sale of tobacco as well as smoking on campus.
Campus shops at the Californian universi...
“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...
Big Tobacco Wants to do to Foreigners What it has Done to Americans
Those requirements have appeared in previous fast-track bills. They sound perfectly reasonable, right?
Well, consider this: Australia is a party to the TPP and already has a free trade agreement with the Unite...
Good Enough Isn’t.
An ISDS carve-out in the TPPA would be good for tobacco control, but not good enough.
There has been some scuttlebutt in trade circles over the past weeks about a possible US proposal in the ongoing Trans-Pa...
A Winnable Battle
The CDC identifies reducing tobacco as a “Winnable Battle” because tobacco is a public health priority with “large-scale impact on health and with known, effective strategies to address them.”
For ASH, the a...
Why Read the ASH Report?
It can be hard for modern Americans to understand the amount of influence and harm US society has suffered as a result of tobacco. It’s easy to see the disconnect, as it has been over five decades since more t...
Facing the Wrong Way
The Chamber of Commerce is undercutting its trade agenda by supporting Big Tobacco.
Since early in 2011, much of our attention here at ASH has been focused on the nexus between trade and tobacco, in particu...
President Obama’s smoking problem in Malaysia
Malaysia’s government is battling against a smoking epidemic that threatens its young people — and it fears Barack Obama’s big Pacific trade deal will make the health crisis even worse.
Read the full Politi...
The Bigger Story of Tobacco Sales
Yesterday's CVS news is the latest chapter in an 20 year story about neighborhoods fighting retail tobacco access.
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Statement of the United States on Menthol
Statement of the United States on Menthol for the WTO Dispute Settlement Body on July 23, 2013
The United States provided a status report in this dispute on July 11, 2013, in accordance with Article 21.6 of...
Protect Our Children’s Health Petition
ASH Review: Second Quarter Edition 2013
ASH was pleased to help promote the White House Petition campaign of 24 year old Michigan State graduate Greg Holland. His petition sought the protection of childre...
National Public Health Week 2013
ASH Review: Second Quarter Edition 2013
National Public Health Week (NPHW) took place April 1-7 and this years themes included:
Ensuring a safe and healthy home for your family
Providing a sa...