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Dr. Carolyn Dresler, 2022 C. Everett Koop Unsung Hero Award Recipient, Joins Action on Smoking and Health Board of Trustees

January 24, 2023

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Media Contact: Megan Arendt-Manning (202) 659 – 4310 Dr. Carolyn Dresler, 2022 C. Everett Koop Unsung Hero Award Recipient, Joins Action on Smoking and Health Board of Trustees Lung Health and Human Rights ...

ASH’s Accomplishments in 2022

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December 17, 2022

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ASH’s work is based on the principle that the behavior of the tobacco industry – producing, marketing, and selling addictive products that kill when use as intended – violates human rights, such as the right to...

Professor Stephen P. Marks, Harvard Professor Emeritus, Joins Action on Smoking and Health Board of Trustees

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November 3, 2022

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Media Contact: Megan Arendt-Manning (202) 659 – 4310 Professor Stephen P. Marks, Harvard Professor Emeritus, Joins Action on Smoking and Health Board of Trustees Esteemed Leadership and Wisdom will help Add...

UN Committee calls on Germany: Protect children from second-hand smoke, tobacco advertising and child labour

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October 13, 2022

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UN Committee calls on Germany: Protect children from second-hand smoke, tobacco advertising and child labour Joint Statement from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) ...

2022 C. Everett Koop Unsung Hero Awarded to Dr. Carolyn Dresler

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September 16, 2022

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Media Contact: Megan (Arendt) Manning (202) 659 – 4310 2022 C. Everett Koop Unsung Hero Awarded to Dr. Carolyn Dresler RIDGEWAY, COLORADO – SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 – Today, the American Lung Association honore...

ASH at ECTC in Greece

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July 31, 2022

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July 2022 – ASH staff attended the 7th ENSP European Conference on Tobacco Control (ECTC) in Greece. This was a valuable opportunity to host a workshop, present on the environment, and host a panel on the tobac...

Human Rights Achievements

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March 14, 2022

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Social Justice in Public Health

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February 17, 2022

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February 20th is World Day of Social Justice. The UN General Assembly recognizes that “social development and social justice are indispensable for the achievement and maintenance of peace and security within an...

Tobacco and the Environment

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February 16, 2022

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Cigarettes are most commonly categorized as a health problem, but they are a huge environmental problem as well. The entire life cycle of a cigarette has an impact on the environment – from growing the tobacco ...

Joint Statement: 4th UN HRC Intersessional Meeting on Human Rights & the 2030 Agenda

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January 18, 2022

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Click here to download a PDF of the statement Statement to the Fourth Human Rights Council intersessional meeting for Dialogue and Cooperation on Human Rights and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development...

ASH’s 2022 Priorities

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January 11, 2022

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“Health is a fundamental human right indispensable for the exercise of other human rights. Every human being is entitled to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health conducive to living a l...

ASH’s Accomplishments in 2021

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December 16, 2021

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ASH’s work is based on the principle that the behavior of the tobacco industry – producing, marketing, and selling addictive products that kill when use as intended – violates human rights, such as the right to...

Reducing Inequalities and Advancing Human Rights Through Tobacco Control

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December 9, 2021

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Every December 10th is Human Rights Day, and this year (2021) the theme is “Equality- Reducing inequalities, advancing human rights.” For ASH, this theme is very welcome, as we strive to center our tobacco cont...

The Right to Health and Cessation

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August 13, 2021

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April 22, 2021

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WCTOH – Tobacco and Human Rights

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February 25, 2021

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Written by Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking & Health and WCTOH Advisory Board Member 25 February 2021 In addition to being a Development challenge, the tobacco epidemic is also i...

ASH’s Accomplishments in 2020

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December 11, 2020

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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...

Human Rights Day 2020

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December 9, 2020

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Happy Human Rights Day! December 10th is International Human Rights Day, in observation of the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This landmark document s...

ASH Live: Human Rights & Cessation

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July 29, 2020

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ASH recently co-authored this BMJ Tobacco Control article on using human rights tools to strengthen cessation. To bring this new approach to more people, we are hosting a short Facebook Live with our Managing A...

A Holistic Approach to Human Rights and the Tobacco Epidemic

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June 22, 2020

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ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber, Policy Director Chris Bostic, and Managing Attorney Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy published an article in the Oxford University Press: Nicotine & Tobacco Research, Volume 22, Iss...

Carolyn Dresler – Webinar on Coronavirus, Human Rights & Tobacco

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April 2, 2020

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ASH Webinar on Coronavirus, Human Rights and Tobacco April 2, 2020 Statement from Carolyn Dresler, MD, MPA Thank you for joining our webinar discussion on this important topic. A question that is pertinen...

ASH’s Human Rights Work in Japan

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November 26, 2019

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Laurent Huber speaking at the plenary session ASH has been working tirelessly to use human rights tools to advance health around the world. Recently, we were invited to bring this work to Japan. While Ja...

15 Organizations Report to the UN Human Rights Council that the U.S. Fails to Protect the Right to Health

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October 3, 2019

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Media Contact: Megan Arendt arendtm@ash.org (202) 390 – 9513 Read the UPR Submission Here WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 3, 2019 – Today, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), in partnership with 14 civil...

Dossier: Tobacco’s big child labour problem

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May 16, 2019

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The precise number of children involved in the tobacco industry is unknown but is thought to be in the tens of millions. More than 152m children are engaged in labour, 71 per cent of them in agriculture, ra...

Global Forum on Human Rights and a Tobacco-Free World

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April 30, 2019

GLOBAL FORUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND A TOBACCO-FREE WORLD 2019 ASH and our colleagues at Romania 2035 Tobacco-Free Generation Initiative, and the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention, along with ...

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