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...
Learning resources
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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Academic articles
This is a non-exhaustive list of scholarly writings on the subjects of tobacco control and human rights.
2008- Leslie London
A human rights approach to health is critical to address growing global health...
ASH (and Partner) Treaty Reporting
This page contains submitted and upcoming civil society reports organized by international human rights treaty body.
ASH and our partners have followed the lead of the Human Rights and Tobacco Contro...
International Human Rights Treaty Bodies
There are nine core international human rights treaties, and many of these treaties pertain to tobacco control.
Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, all UN Member States h...
Action Review: Fourth Quarter Edition 2017
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
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
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...
IASLC Statement on Philip Morris’ New Manifesto Highlights the Importance of Tobacco Control
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
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!
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...
Publications
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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 ...
New Study Reveals No Drop in Use of Smokeless Tobacco for U.S. Workers
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
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?
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 Half Century of Avoidable Death
A Global Perspective on Tobacco in America
Read the full report here>
Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable death, and while significant progress has been made, international examp...
Surgeon general report links more diseases, health problems to smoking tobacco
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...
Financials
ASH 990s
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WHO Report Demonstrates Need for Higher Tobacco Taxes
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
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
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).
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