There are many tools to assist advocates in becoming more well-versed in the area of human rights. Below are some helpful resources.
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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...
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 ...
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 P...
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...
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...
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Policy Papers
ASH works hard to inform and educate policy makers and the public about tobacco prevention and the tobacco industry. A number of informative policy papers ...
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...
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...
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...
A Global Perspective on Tobacco in America
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Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable death, and while significant progress has been made, international examp...
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...
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...
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...
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...