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 – ...
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...
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 ...
ASH 2015 Trade Report Card Arendtm November 9, 2015 Blog, Featured News & Events 1 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 from 11 other countries...
Breaking: Tobacco Carve-Out in TPP ash October 5, 2015 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Trade 1 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 Arendtm October 1, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm September 3, 2015 ASH in the News, Blog, Featured News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm August 17, 2015 Blog, Featured News & Events 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? Arendtm August 12, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 Arendtm July 31, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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 ...
Australia has spent $50 million defending plain packaging in trade dispute. Arendtm July 28, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Australia's legal bill for defending its cigarette plain packaging legislation is set to hit $50 million as it battles to contain a case brought by tobacco giant Philip Morris before a tribunal in Singapore. ...
Obama Can Help End Tobacco Epidemic, Says ASH Arendtm June 24, 2015 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases, Related News 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...
Tobacco Demonstrates Troubles for Trade Agreements Arendtm June 16, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News In 2012, Australia implemented tough anti-tobacco regulations, requiring that all cigarettes be sold in plain, logo-free brown packages dominated by health warnings. Philip Morris Asia filed suit, claiming that...
Ukraine drops WTO action against Australian tobacco-packaging laws Arendtm June 3, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News (Reuters) - Ukraine has suspended a case it was pursuing through the World Trade Organization aimed at overturning Australia's strict tobacco packaging laws, a WTO panel of adjudicators said in a statement publ...
Trade Threats to Tobacco Control Arendtm May 13, 2015 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News ASH releases analysis of trade threats to U.S. domestic tobacco control policies. ...
Leaked TPP investment chapter shows US tobacco control rules at risk Arendtm March 26, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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...
ASH participates in the World Conference on Tobacco or Health 2015 Arendtm March 16, 2015 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 1 This week, several representatives of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) will be attending the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi. WCTOH is a five-day scientific conference where presenters hig...
Senator Warren calls Philip Morris on Abusive Trade Lawsuit. Arendtm February 27, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News 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...
President Obama on Tobacco & Trade Arendtm January 23, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Remarks by the President at Meeting of the Export Council December 11, 2014 The big bugaboo that’s lifted up there is tobacco companies suing poorer countries to make sure that anti-smoking legislation is b...
Trade deals must not undermine fight against tobacco Arendtm December 10, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Australian expertise in tobacco control is helping save lives around the world, but that work could be undone. Every day, 5500 children in India start using tobacco. If they continue the habit, as many do, the...
Good Enough Isn’t. Arendtm December 9, 2014 Blog 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 the ongoing Trans-Pa...
Two FCTC Parties emphasize trade over saving lives from tobacco Arendtm November 3, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News WTO members meeting as the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council on 28–29 October 2014 responded to the latest developments on plain packaging for tobacco products, exchanged vie...
Malaysia Defends Tobacco Control in TPP & FCTC Arendtm October 27, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Almost 200 countries signed the World Health Organisation’s Tobacco Control Convention and are obliged to take measures to curb tobacco use. But the industry has hit back. A big tobacco company, Philip Morris,...
U.S. floats cutting tobacco from part of Pacific trade pact -sources ash October 22, 2014 Featured News & Events, Related News By Krista Hughes WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The United States has floated excluding tobacco products from a key section of a 12-nation Pacific trade deal and signaled it may present a formal proposal to t...
