ASH’s 2022 Priorities
“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...
Parallel issues
There are numerous other issues that provide legal or political precedent that can be applied to tobacco and human rights.
Environment2018- The Business and Human Rights Resource Center tracked 14 climate l...
Statement on Hawaii Phasing Out Cigarette Sales
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber
Monday, February 4, 2019
ASH fully supports Hawaii’s proposal to phase cigarettes out of the Hawaiian market by 2024. Cigarettes are highly engineered nico...
PMI says they are “designing a smoke-free future,” but their actions speak the real truth
Recently the Philippines Tobacco Institute, which represents Philip Morris International (PMI), among other tobacco companies, filed two lawsuits against the small city of Balanga in the Philippines. Litigation...
CNCT – Filtergate: opening of a preliminary investigation
Translated by CNCT from their French release here.
Following the filing of a complaint by the Comité National Contre le Tabagisme (CNCT) for endangering the lives of others due to the manipulation of filters b...
Tobacco firms in France cheated nicotine tests: anti-smoking body
Four tobacco companies operating in France manipulated tests to conceal the real level of nicotine and tar contained in cigarettes, endangering the lives of smokers, a French anti-smoking organization alleged i...
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 ...
Tobacco Industry Accused of Murder: Criminal Case Against Tobacco Industry, ASH reports
Action on Smoking & Health Draws on “Sick of Smoking’s” Current Legal Challenge Against Tobacco Companies in the Netherlands to Highlight Criminal Liability
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tuesday, July 18, 2017 – ...
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...
No Safe Use of Tobacco
Tasmania, an Australian island off the Southern coast, is considering an historic step for tobacco control. The Legislative Council is currently considering a proposal called Tobacco Free Generation (TFG), whic...
Bill to raise legal smoking age to 21 in Guam passes
Guam lawmakers Friday passed legislation aimed at curbing the island’s rate of tobacco users by increasing the minimum age to purchase tobacco-related products, and electronic cigarettes, to 21.
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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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California Lawmakers Vote to Raise Smoking, Vaping Age to 21
California lawmakers voted Thursday to raise the legal age for purchasing and using tobacco and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21, putting the nation's most populous state on the brink of becoming only the second afte...
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...
Video Exposé on a Deadly Consumer Product
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Video Exposé on a Deadly Consumer Product
Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) releases parody video exposing #1 cause of...
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-M...
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...
Ukraine drops WTO action against Australian tobacco-packaging laws
(Reuters) - Ukraine has suspended a case it was pursuing through the World Trade Organization aimed at overturning Australia's strict tobacco packaging laws, a WTO panel of adjudicators said in a statement publ...