Parallel issues
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Using Human Rights Arguments in Litigation
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WTO Panel Puts Health Ahead of Tobacco Industry Profits
Landmark case gives governments more discretion in health policies
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Statement of Laurent Huber, Executive Director, Action on Smoking & Health
WASHINGTON, DC – ...
FINALLY! Corrective Ads Published!
**UPDATE 3** - Beginning on November 26, 2017 the public will begin seeing long-awaited “corrective statements” by the tobacco industry on television and in newspapers.
The major U.S. tobacco companies were ...
Monograph: The Economics of Tobacco & Tobacco Contol
This collaborative analysis from the National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization is the result of several years' work from noted experts in economics, public health and law. It is the most detai...
We must protect our health gains
What will the next four years hold for the anti-tobacco movement in the U.S.? We can't say for sure, and if the recent track record of pollsters tells us anything, it is that concrete political predictions are ...
Tobacco Firms Lose Court Challenge Over Packaging
The tobacco industry lost its High Court challenge to the UK government's regulations on standardised "plain" cigarette packaging.
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Manhattan Co-op Resident Wins $120K In Lawsuit Over Secondhand Smoke Infiltration
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has awarded a co-op apartment owner more than $120,000 in maintenance and fees after she sued over damage to her place from people smoking in neighboring apartments, which she sa...
Tougher smoking laws passed in Queensland
Queensland has passed some of the toughest smoking laws in the country.
From September 1, lighting up will be outlawed at or near childcare facilities, bus stops and taxi ranks, public pools, children's spor...
Major NY Law Firm Brags of Denying Smokers ‘Standard of Care’ For ‘Early Detection of Lung Cancer’
A legal victory is one thing but for lawyers for a tobacco company to publicly celebrate denying potential cancer victims the best way of identifying lung disease as early as possible seems reprehensible. . . ...
Potentially pivotal suit pits smokers vs. Big Tobacco
A decade after a group of American smokers sued Philip Morris USA to try to force the cigarette maker to pay for lung cancer screenings, the case will finally be heard by a jury.
Smokers from Massachusetts a...
Philip Morris loses case against Australia’s tobacco plain packaging law
Cigarette company Philip Morris has suffered another defeat in its long-running bid to overturn Australia's plain packaging laws.
An arbitration tribunal based in Singapore has issued a unanimous decision ag...
Human Rights Day 2015
December 10th is recognized worldwide as Human Rights Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. T...
Criminal Cases about Consumer Products
The tobacco epidemic continues to spread around the world. Tobacco is unique – no other product kills half of its consumers when used exactly as intended. If tobacco products were released as new products toda...
ASH 2015 Tobacco Criminal Liability and Tobacco & Human Rights Report Card
ASH’s tobacco criminal liability program was created to investigate the possibility of holding tobacco corporations and their executives criminally liable for the millions of tobacco-related deaths. The tobacco...
Human Rights Resources
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ASH Blog and Presentations
Danish Institute on Human Rights- Quit PMI
Hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Human Rights Day 2016
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Human Rights Violations
Could tobacco executives/corporations
be found guilty of human right violations?
A general view of participants during the 29th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council. 22 June 2015. UN Photo / Jean-Ma...
Michael Bloomberg says big tobacco preys on the world’s poor
Bloomberg said: "Someday somebodies going to come along and say to the people who are running these companies, you are killing people. If you kill somebody on the streets with a gun or beat them over the head, ...
International Day of the Girl
In 2011, the United Nations General Assembly declared October 11 as the International Day of the Girl, to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges that girls face around the world. Girls and women arou...
Push grows to target tobacco, health in Pacific trade rules
No final consensus has been reached on whether any exclusion would target only tobacco companies or shield a wider range of government regulations from legal action, but Australia's Andrew Robb is optimistic ab...
What does peanut butter have to do with tobacco?
Recently, a landmark case was decided in federal court in Georgia. The subject of the case? Peanut butter.
The Peanut Butter Case: United States of America vs. Stewart Parnell
From 2008-2009, there was an out...
Legal Events
The American Society of International Law ( ASIL), the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network ( ACS CAN), and ASH hosted:
Tobacco and International Law:
Evaluating and Enforcing the Framework Conventio...
International Smoke-free Air Successes
Many Americans view smoking, and secondhand smoke, as a problem that has mostly been solved, at least in the United States.
However, only half of all Americans are protected from exposure to secondhand smoke...
Tobacco Demonstrates Troubles for Trade Agreements
In 2012, Australia implemented tough anti-tobacco regulations, requiring that all cigarettes be sold in plain, logo-free brown packages dominated by health warnings. Philip Morris Asia filed suit, claiming that...
Tobacco & Human Rights in Latin America
An article written by ASH Staff Attorney Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy was recently published in the American Bar Association’s “International Law News.” The article discusses the growing problem of tobacco use in Latin...
