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...
June 2016: Matching Campaign Arendtm May 20, 2016 News & Events Help ASH participate in the 7th round of the tobacco treaty negotiations in India this November. Every donation made from June 1 - 30, 2016 will be matched by a private donor, up to $2,000. Building on...
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...
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...
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...
A Winnable Battle Arendtm September 17, 2014 Blog, Smoke Alarms The CDC identifies reducing tobacco as a “Winnable Battle” because tobacco is a public health priority with “large-scale impact on health and with known, effective strategies to address them.” For ASH, the a...
Tobacco Treaty admin August 1, 2012 UN Photo/Gitika Noyes The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Action on Smoking and Health has been instrumental in the success of the global tobacco control treaty by supporting and serv...
What We Do admin August 1, 2012 ASH takes action against the tobacco epidemic on a global scale. The tobacco industry does not limit itself to a geographic area, and neither can we. Our goal is to see U.S. tobacco control through a global l...