Action Review: Fourth Quarter Edition 2017 ash December 14, 2017 E-Newsletter Let’s Get Rid of Cigarettes “In the 21st century, society is facing numerous public health challenges to which researchers are still searching for solutions. We must unite to end the tobacco epidemic which has...
The U.S. Is Not Living Up to Its Obligation to Protect the Health of Its Citizens Arendtm July 17, 2017 Blog, Featured News & Events All countries around the world, including the United States, have committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to strengthen universal peace and ...
The world’s largest tobacco company wanted good press – but it backfired Arendtm May 29, 2017 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Re-printed as an English translation with permission from Buzzfeed Germany, original article in German here. Stop producing or marketing tobacco! This is what an Institute for Human Rights has recommended to ...
IASLC Statement on Philip Morris’ New Manifesto Highlights the Importance of Tobacco Control Arendtm February 3, 2017 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News On February 1, 2017, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) issued the following statement: “According to its own public reports, in 2016 Phillip Morris manufactured 800 billion...
Released: WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2015 Arendtm July 7, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2015 has been released. It is available here>...
Tobacco Taxes are Front & Center in Influential Post-2015 Report! Arendtm April 27, 2015 Blog, Featured News & Events The UN’s post-2015 development goal process is still in full swing. Member states have spent the last week discussing ways to finance the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These discussions are all s...
New Study Reveals No Drop in Use of Smokeless Tobacco for U.S. Workers ash June 30, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News According to a recent study by the US. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. workers are continuing, and slightly increasing, their use of smokeless tobacco products. Smokeless tobacco (sn...
One in Five US Adults Use Tobacco Products ash June 30, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News Adult smoking rates have dropped from 42% in 1965 to 21.3% today, but the rate of decrease is slowing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) latest issue of Morbidity and Mortali...
Why Read the ASH Report? Arendtm June 10, 2014 Blog, Featured News & Events 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...
Surgeon general report links more diseases, health problems to smoking tobacco ash January 17, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News Fifty years after the U.S. surgeon general first linked cigarette smoking to deadly diseasessuch as lung cancer and heart disease, his successors continue to add to the list of health problems associ...
WHO Report Demonstrates Need for Higher Tobacco Taxes ash July 10, 2013 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases Most effective measure is the most under-utilized WASHINGTON, DC. 10 July – A report released today by the World Health Organization concludes that tax and price measures are the “least-achieved” of a global m...
Smoking Bans Really do Slash Heart Attacks and Strokes, Largest Ever Study Finds ash November 1, 2012 Related News The more stringent the laws, the better the health benefits, American researchers found Hospital admissions for heart attacks fell by 15%, strokes by 16% and those for respiratory diseases such as asthma b...
Smoking, Diabetes Are Risk Factors for Poor Leg Circulation: Study ash October 24, 2012 Related News New research confirms that smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure and highcholesterol levels can all raise men's risk for poor circulation in the legs, otherwise known as peripheral artery disease (PAD). Acc...
