Why don’t smokers quit? Arendtm March 24, 2016 Blog, Featured News & Events 1 The evidence is clear: smoking is horrible for your health, and quitting benefits not only your health, but your wallet. These things are fairly obvious, and non-smokers often ask the same question: “Why don’t ...
Petition Delivery Arendtm March 22, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events 1 ASH joins allies to demand that the U.S. Department of Justice open an investigation on British American Tobacco (BAT)'s alleged corruption in East Africa. L - R: Abby McGill (International Labor Rights Fo...
Hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Arendtm March 21, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events 2 On April 5, 2016, Action on Smoking and Health and two of our partner organizations, Fundación InterAmericana del Corazón Argentina and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, will present t...
Big Tobacco takes hit; City Council bolsters anti-smoking efforts Arendtm March 17, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Big Tobacco took it on the chin Wednesday when Chicago raised its smoking age to 21, outlawed discounts, slapped a $6 million tax on cigars, roll-your-own tobacco and smokeless tobacco and banned chaw altogethe...
California Lawmakers Vote to Raise Smoking, Vaping Age to 21 Arendtm March 11, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News California lawmakers voted Thursday to raise the legal age for purchasing and using tobacco and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21, putting the nation's most populous state on the brink of becoming only the second afte...
WHO warns governments that Big Tobacco is undermining protocol to combat smuggling Arendtm March 9, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The Secretariat for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recently sent the following Note Verbal to all Missions of Parties in Geneva to alert them to prevent interference from the tobacco ind...
Raise the Legal Age for Cigarette Sales to 21 Arendtm March 7, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The biggest reason to raise the legal age to 21 is to reduce young people’s access to tobacco when they are more likely to become addicted and when their brains are still developing. Studies have found that ni...
Tougher smoking laws passed in Queensland Arendtm February 24, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Queensland has passed some of the toughest smoking laws in the country. From September 1, lighting up will be outlawed at or near childcare facilities, bus stops and taxi ranks, public pools, children's spor...
Major NY Law Firm Brags of Denying Smokers ‘Standard of Care’ For ‘Early Detection of Lung Cancer’ Arendtm February 17, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News A legal victory is one thing but for lawyers for a tobacco company to publicly celebrate denying potential cancer victims the best way of identifying lung disease as early as possible seems reprehensible. . ....
Tobacco plain packaging likely to be law in New Zealand by end of year Arendtm February 17, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News A law that would force tobacco companies to wrap their cigarettes in plain packaging could be in action by the end of the year. Prime Minister John Key has confirmed a bill, on pause partway through the parl...
How Tobacco Companies Factor into the Presidential Primaries Arendtm February 11, 2016 Blog, Featured News & Events 1 As the first primary elections begin, you are probably thinking about a lot of factors when considering who to vote for. But have you thought about how tobacco plays into the election? Many people consider...
35 Health Groups Urge Congress to Support Trans-Pacific Partnership Provision Protecting Health Measures from Tobacco Industry Attacks Arendtm February 5, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, Related News WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the United States and 11 other countries prepare to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement later today, 35 leading public health and medi...
On Twitter, e-cigarette ads spread like secondhand smoke Arendtm January 27, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Several states have enacted laws limiting where e-cigarettes can be used -- after citing public health concerns -- but as no federal law has been created to curtail e-cigarette advertising, companies are resort...
Potentially pivotal suit pits smokers vs. Big Tobacco Arendtm January 27, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News A decade after a group of American smokers sued Philip Morris USA to try to force the cigarette maker to pay for lung cancer screenings, the case will finally be heard by a jury. Smokers from Massachusetts a...
The True Cost of Smoking by State Arendtm January 22, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News WalletHub’s analysts calculated the potential monetary losses — including the cumulative cost of a cigarette pack per day over several decades, health care expenditures, income losses and other costs — brought ...
New Global Anti-tobacco Leadership Arendtm January 20, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Arendt Email: arendtm@ash.org New Global Anti-tobacco Leadership After twelve years of success, ASH passes FCA baton to HealthBridge WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 20,...
Kids Overexposed to Cigarettes in Video Games ash January 15, 2016 Feature, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News, Smoke Alarms Hundreds of video games come out every year. Avid gamers have at least 326 news ones to look forward to in 2016. If previous years are any indication, many of these games will contain images of cigarett...
First Singapore, now Norway calls for tobacco sales ban on those born after 2000 Arendtm January 14, 2016 Featured News & Events, Related News January 2016: The president of the Norwegian Medical Association, Marit Hermansen, has called for a ban on the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2000 as a first step to create a smoke-free society ...
Japan Tobacco aims to become world’s leading merchant of death Arendtm January 6, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Mitsuomi Koizumi, 58, president of Japan Tobacco Inc., discussed how his company has evolved since its privatization in 1985 as well as its future strategy, in an interview with Yomiuri Shimbun. Read on>...
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber Arendtm December 21, 2015 ASH in the News, Blog, Featured News & Events Making Priorities into our Reality This year has been one filled with milestones for the public health and tobacco control communities. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), that will replace the Mille...
2015 was a Very Bad Year for the Tobacco Industry Arendtm December 18, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News And it’s only going to get worse for them. I was asked two weeks ago to blog about my end-of-year thoughts. Something told me to procrastinate, and I am glad I did. Within 24 hours before putting fingers to ...
Human Rights Day 2015 Arendtm December 8, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates December 10th is recognized worldwide as Human Rights Day. It commemorates the anniversary of the day that the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948. T...
Video Exposé on a Deadly Consumer Product Arendtm November 30, 2015 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, Press Releases 1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Arendt, 202-659-4310 Email: arendtm@ash.org Video Exposé on a Deadly Consumer Product Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) releases parody video exposing #1 cause o...
Obama’s Legacy on Tobacco Arendtm November 18, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News President Obama is moving to cement a significant legacy in the fight against smoking. Despite Obama’s own struggles with cigarettes, many public health advocates see him as a champion on the issue, and a se...
Racial Politics Flavor Debate Over Banning Menthol Cigarettes Arendtm November 18, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 Lorillard Tobacco donated nearly four times as much to Republican candidates as to Democrats in the 2014 congressional elections. No surprise there — most businesses count on Republicans to hold the line on reg...
