Why Tobacco Still Matters Arendtm January 13, 2021 Blog, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events By: Chris Bostic, Policy Director at ASH January 12, 2021 Our national house is on fire. And it’s flooded. And it’s falling into a sinkhole. Focusing on a broken window right now would be ludicrous. The ...
Coronavirus Update Arendtm March 10, 2020 ASH in the News, Blog, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 8 Resources on COVID-19 World Health Organization and who is at risk Q&A? WHO FCTC Secretariat's statement on May 4, 2020 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and their April 8, 2020 guidance to...
Beverly Hills Banned the Sale of Tobacco Products Because Cigarettes are Still a Huge Problem Arendtm June 7, 2019 ASH in the News, Blog, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News As we write this, no one is smoking inside of our office. We rode the metro this morning with no one smoking on the train or the platform, and we can meet friends for dinner tonight where no one will smoke arou...
Media Advisory: What’s Menthol Got to Do with It? Everything (Still)! Arendtm May 20, 2019 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News 2 Carol McGruder, Co-Chair, African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council "For every black man murdered, there are 6-8 dying of tobacco diseases." "We can’t wait until what’s happening with police bru...
Action Review: Fourth Quarter Edition 2018 ash December 20, 2018 E-Newsletter How the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights impacts tobacco For the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), ASH Deputy Director for Policy Chris Bostic...
WTO Panel Puts Health Ahead of Tobacco Industry Profits Arendtm June 28, 2018 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases Landmark case gives governments more discretion in health policies Contact: Megan Arendt, (202) 659 – 4310 Statement of Laurent Huber, Executive Director, Action on Smoking & Health WASHINGTON, DC – ...
CNCT – Filtergate: opening of a preliminary investigation Arendtm May 4, 2018 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Translated by CNCT from their French release here. Following the filing of a complaint by the Comité National Contre le Tabagisme (CNCT) for endangering the lives of others due to the manipulation of filters b...
Netherlands Cancer Institute files a report against tobacco manufacturers Arendtm February 2, 2018 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) is the first hospital/research institution in the Netherlands to file a report in the ongoing criminal case against tobacco manufacturers. In doing so, the NKI asks the Pu...
A human rights approach to tobacco control Arendtm January 12, 2018 Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in the world. A human rights approach to ending tobacco is unique because it implores or requires governments to protect their citizens by implementing toba...
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 Bubonic Plague. Polio. Cholera. Smallpox. Malaria. And Tobacco? Arendtm December 14, 2017 Blog, Featured News & Events We often refer to tobacco as an epidemic. But what does that really mean? And does tobacco-related death and disease really compare to diseases that decimated the population? The CDC defines an epidemic as a...
Let’s Get Rid of Cigarettes Arendtm December 5, 2017 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases A World Where Cigarettes are No Longer Sold for Profit is Within Reach Contact: Megan Arendt, (202) 659 – 4310 WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 6, 2017 – Cigarettes are the only consumer good that kills when used ...
FINALLY! Corrective Ads Published! Arendtm November 20, 2017 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates 2 **UPDATE 3** - Beginning on November 26, 2017 the public will begin seeing long-awaited “corrective statements” by the tobacco industry on television and in newspapers. The major U.S. tobacco companies were ...
Report on 50 Years Arendtm October 23, 2017 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases 1 Contact: Megan Arendt (202) 659 – 4310 arendtm@ash.org A Future with ZERO Tobacco Deaths ASH Releases Report on 50 Years of Fighting Click to read the report WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 26, 2017 –...
95 Health Groups to Philip Morris International: Stop Selling Cigarettes Arendtm September 14, 2017 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases WASHINGTON, D.C. – SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 – Today, 95 organizations from around the globe published an open letter to Philip Morris International (PMI) demanding that they immediately cease the production, marketin...
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 ...
New Report: Tobacco in America Arendtm May 30, 2017 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases 1 Americans’ Health Ranks 43rd Globally, Despite Spending Most on Healthcare Read the Full Report Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) unveils report results, demonstrating that large disparities in tobacc...
Phase Out the Commercial Sale of Cigarettes Arendtm May 21, 2017 Project Sunset is an ASH-led global campaign to convince policy makers to phase out the sale of commercial combustible tobacco products. It is focused entirely on the sale, not individual possession or use. The...
Trump Administration Ties to Big Tobacco Arendtm March 28, 2017 News & Events Smoking has been banned on airplanes since 1990. In California -the first state to implement a smoke-free air law - workplaces, bars, and restaurants have been smoke-free since 1998. There haven’t been tobacco ...
Tobacco control: saving lives and driving development Arendtm February 28, 2017 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Tobacco use poses an unparalleled health and economic burden worldwide. A new study found that the diseases caused by smoking account for US$ 422 billion in health care expenditures annually, representing almo...
Federal tobacco control is at risk in the US Arendtm February 10, 2017 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The man Donald Trump has chosen to direct health policy for the federal government has close ties to the tobacco industry he will be charged with regulating. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), who was confirmed as health...
World Cancer Day 2017 Arendtm February 3, 2017 Blog, Featured News & Events, Smoke Alarms As we mark World Cancer Day, let's take a moment to envision a day in the future when cancer is no longer ever a death sentence. As our National Cancer Institute presses forward on treatment and research under ...
Monograph: The Economics of Tobacco & Tobacco Contol Arendtm January 13, 2017 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News This collaborative analysis from the National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization is the result of several years' work from noted experts in economics, public health and law. It is the most detai...
Tobacco to be Hidden from Plain Sight in Netherlands Shops Arendtm January 4, 2017 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Dutch government is working on a legislative proposal to ban the visible display of tobacco products, State Secretary Martin van Rijn of Public Health informed parliament, ANP reports. Read more>...
What’s next in 2017 Arendtm December 22, 2016 ASH in the News, Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events As the year comes to a close, we would like to take the time to thank all of our donors and allies for your ongoing support, 2017 will be very special, as it marks our 50th year as an organization. In honor ...
