ASH’s Accomplishments in 2021
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...
ASH’s Accomplishments in 2020
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...
Did Philip Morris International confess to murder?
Philip Morris Managing Director for the United Kingdom, Peter Nixon, was a guest on Good Morning Britain on March 13, 2019, claiming to want to stop selling cigarettes in favor of "less harmful" nicotine addict...
Action Review: Second Quarter Edition 2017
ASH hosted a legal expert group in Geneva
For the first time, an international meeting was held to spread knowledge between the U.S., our colleagues in the Netherlands, and 16 other countries on criminal liabi...
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber on a Tobacco-Free World
That’s our vision at ASH, a tobacco-free world. This year marks ASH’s 50th anniversary, and we are as committed as ever to end the tobacco epidemic.
With your help, we can achieve this vision. Here’s how we...
Liability: untapped potential in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
ASH Policy Director Chris Bostic, Richard Daynard, and Tamar Lawrence-Samuel (Corporate Accountability International) shed some light on the untapped potential in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
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2015 was a Very Bad Year for the Tobacco Industry
And it’s only going to get worse for them.
I was asked two weeks ago to blog about my end-of-year thoughts. Something told me to procrastinate, and I am glad I did. Within 24 hours before putting fingers to ...
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...
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...
Criminal Liability and Human Rights Violations
Tobacco products kill more people than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. Left unchecked, tobacco use will kill 1 billion people this century. As one state Supreme Court...
WNTD: The Nightmare Epidemic Created by Tobacco Marketing
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...
