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WTO Panel Puts Health Ahead of Tobacco Industry Profits

June 28, 2018

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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 – ...

35 Health Groups Urge Congress to Support Trans-Pacific Partnership Provision Protecting Health Measures from Tobacco Industry Attacks

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February 5, 2016

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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...

Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber

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December 21, 2015

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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

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December 18, 2015

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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 ...

ASH 2015 Trade Report Card

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November 9, 2015

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November 9, 2015 Last week, after many years of painful negotiation, the final text for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement was released. This is the text that the U.S. Congress and Parliaments fro...

Breaking: Tobacco Carve-Out in TPP

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October 5, 2015

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Arendt Office: 202-659-4310 Email: arendtm@ash.org Tobacco Carve-Out in TPP, Major Victory for Public Health Removes New Weapon for Tobacco Industry WASHINGTON, DC – ...

Push grows to target tobacco, health in Pacific trade rules

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October 1, 2015

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No final consensus has been reached on whether any exclusion would target only tobacco companies or shield a wider range of government regulations from legal action, but Australia's Andrew Robb is optimistic ab...

Big Trade Agreements … Big Tobacco

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September 3, 2015

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By Chris Bostic, for Health and Trade Network As the role of tobacco companies in trade agreements on both sides of the Atlantic has been highlighted by a series of controversial events in recent weeks, this...

Tobacco farmers are a pawn in the TPP game

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August 17, 2015

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But tobacco farmers are not part of the game Mitch McConnell and other pro-tobacco politicians have become very vocal over the past two weeks in their opposition to a potential partial tobacco exemption in th...

Will Trans-Pacific trade deal go up in smoke over anti-tobacco proposal?

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August 12, 2015

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Big Tobacco is pushing back against a strict anti-smoking provision in the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and has enlisted the support of the most powerful Republican in the Senate to help quash i...

McConnell warns Obama against tobacco carve-out in trade deal

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July 31, 2015

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is warning U.S. officials negotiating a massive trans-Pacific trade agreement for President Obama not to target tobacco growers in a final deal. McConnell said ...

Why we need to tax tobacco

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July 15, 2015

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Let’s be clear. Tobacco use, and its negative health, social and economic impact, is not a global problem that is simply going away. As documented in a recent study, despite significant reductions in the e...

Obama Can Help End Tobacco Epidemic, Says ASH

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June 24, 2015

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Arendt Office: 202-659-4310 Email: arendtm@ash.org Obama Can Help End Tobacco Epidemic, Says ASH Action on Smoking & Health (ASH) Calls on President Obama to...

Action Review: 1st Quarter Edition 2015

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April 10, 2015

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Tobacco and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) The inclusion of tobacco control in the Sustainable Development Goals has been in the works for several years. It is due to various advocacy efforts of the...

Leaked TPP investment chapter shows US tobacco control rules at risk

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March 26, 2015

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WASHINGTON — An ambitious 12-nation trade accord pushed by President Obama would allow foreign corporations to sue the United States government for actions that undermine their investment “expectations” and hur...

Senator Warren calls Philip Morris on Abusive Trade Lawsuit.

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February 27, 2015

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By Senator Elizabeth Warren The United States is in the final stages of negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive free-trade agreement with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore and seven other cou...

Big Tobacco Wants to do to Foreigners What it has Done to Americans

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December 19, 2014

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Those requirements have appeared in previous fast-track bills. They sound perfectly reasonable, right? Well, consider this: Australia is a party to the TPP and already has a free trade agreement with the Unite...

Good Enough Isn’t.

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December 9, 2014

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December 9, 2014 An ISDS carve-out in the TPPA would be good for tobacco control, but not good enough. There has been some scuttlebutt in trade circles over the past weeks about a possible US proposal in ...

U.S. floats cutting tobacco from part of Pacific trade pact -sources

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October 22, 2014

McConnell seeks to protect tobacco industry in trade deal

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October 20, 2014

USTR Informally Floats ISDS Tobacco Carveout With Some TPP Countries

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October 7, 2014

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U.S. trade officials have reached out to some other Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries to informally float the idea of excluding tobacco-related challenges from being brought under the deal's investor-st...

Stubbing Out the Tobacco Industry’s Abuse of Trade Agreements

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October 6, 2014

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The tobacco industry has a long history of flexing its muscles, namely in the area of investor protection schemes, against governments in the name of protecting its own market. TTIP is an opportunity to set a g...

Put public health on agenda of trade deal talks & ‘uncuff’ governments

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May 23, 2014

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Trade agreements are being used to “handcuff governments” over health policy, Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organisation said at its assembly. This was “disturbing” she went on, adding th...

Facing the Wrong Way

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May 5, 2014

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The Chamber of Commerce is undercutting its trade agenda by supporting Big Tobacco. Since early in 2011, much of our attention here at ASH has been focused on the nexus between trade and tobacco, in particu...

President Obama’s smoking problem in Malaysia

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April 28, 2014

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Malaysia’s government is battling against a smoking epidemic that threatens its young people — and it fears Barack Obama’s big Pacific trade deal will make the health crisis even worse. Read the full Politi...

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