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Australian plain packaging leads to dramatic declines in tobacco use

June 4, 2015

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The tobacco industry has been hit by the heaviest declines on record amid otherwise strong economic growth for the nation, the latest figures show. Treasurer Joe Hockey may have described the national accoun...

Princeton, NJ bans tobacco sales to customers under 21

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April 22, 2015

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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. Read more>...

Use of E-Cigarettes Rises Sharply Among Teenagers, Report Says

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April 16, 2015

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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

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March 27, 2015

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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

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March 16, 2015

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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

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March 11, 2015

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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

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March 11, 2015

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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

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March 3, 2015

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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

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March 3, 2015

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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

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February 25, 2015

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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

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February 24, 2015

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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

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February 23, 2015

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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

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February 20, 2015

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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

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January 30, 2015

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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

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January 29, 2015

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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”

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January 29, 2015

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“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

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December 19, 2014

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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.

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December 9, 2014

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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

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September 17, 2014

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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?

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June 10, 2014

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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

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May 5, 2014

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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

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April 28, 2014

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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

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February 6, 2014

Statement of the United States on Menthol

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July 23, 2013

Protect Our Children’s Health Petition

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June 27, 2013

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...

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