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ASH Statement: The Surgeon General is right: Smoking cessation treatment works and is critical

January 23, 2020

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Statement of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) The Surgeon General is right: Smoking cessation treatment works and is critical Contact: Megan Arendt arendtm@ash.org (202) 659-4310 On January 23, 2020, the...

Action Review: 4th Quarter 2016

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December 16, 2016

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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber at HHS Statement from ASH on E-Cigarettes Following the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy r...

Statement from Action on Smoking and Health on E-Cigarettes Following the U.S. Surgeon General’s Report: E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults

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December 8, 2016

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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a new report today, December 8, 2016, that presents research and policy recommendations on electronic cigarettes and their use among adolescents and young adults. ...

What if Tobacco Vanished?

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December 2, 2016

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Cigarettes have been commercially marketed and sold in the United States for over 100 years. The negative health effects of tobacco have been public knowledge for at least the last 50 years. The death and disea...

Tobacco Deaths & Taxes

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September 30, 2014

Blog, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates

In the past, the United States has been a leader in tobacco control. For the last 15 years, though, the U.S. has been falling behind as other countries have moved to protect their people from tobacco addiction ...

Fmr US Surgeon General Dr. Jesse Steinfeld dies at 87

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August 6, 2014

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Three U.S. surgeons general have played the biggest roles in alerting the public to the dangers of tobacco. In 1964, Dr. Luther Terry issued the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, irrefutabl...

Tobacco companies have made cigarettes deadlier than ever

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June 24, 2014

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Over the last five decades, the tobacco industry has engineered cigarettes to be more addictive — and has also made them more dangerous. Smokers suffer from higher risk of lung cancer and chronic obstructive p...

A Half Century of Avoidable Death

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June 2, 2014

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...

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