ASH participates in the World Conference on Tobacco or Health 2015 Arendtm March 16, 2015 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 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 Arendtm March 11, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm March 11, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm March 3, 2015 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm March 3, 2015 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events 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 Arendtm February 25, 2015 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News 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 Arendtm February 24, 2015 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases 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 Arendtm February 23, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm February 20, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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...
California declares electronic cigarettes a health threat Arendtm January 30, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm January 29, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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” Arendtm January 29, 2015 Blog, Featured News & Events “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 Arendtm December 19, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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. Arendtm December 9, 2014 Blog 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 Arendtm September 17, 2014 Blog, Smoke Alarms 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? Arendtm June 10, 2014 Blog, Featured News & Events 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 Arendtm May 5, 2014 Blog 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 Arendtm April 28, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 ash February 6, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News Yesterday's CVS news is the latest chapter in an 20 year story about neighborhoods fighting retail tobacco access. Click here to learn more>...
Statement of the United States on Menthol ash July 23, 2013 Featured News & Events, Related News 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...
Tobacco consumption and hypertension increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease ash June 7, 2013 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Within the framework of World No Tobacco Day, PAHO/WHO warns that these two risk factors cause the most deaths in the region. Washington, D.C., 5 June 2013 (PAHO/WHO) – Tobacco consumption increases the risk...
WNTD: The Nightmare Epidemic Created by Tobacco Marketing ash May 31, 2013 FAQs, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Tobacco is a Deadly Product - Tobacco kills up to half of its users. - Tobacco kills nearly 6 million people each year, of whom more than 5 million are from direct tobacco use and more tha...
Tobacco Companies Are Not Public Health Stakeholders, Experts Conclude ash May 31, 2013 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News When assessing information presented by the tobacco industry, the US regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and regulatory bodies in other countries, should be aware that they are dealing with compan...
Smoking Bans Really do Slash Heart Attacks and Strokes, Largest Ever Study Finds ash November 1, 2012 Related News The more stringent the laws, the better the health benefits, American researchers found Hospital admissions for heart attacks fell by 15%, strokes by 16% and those for respiratory diseases such as asthma b...
