Tobacco Firms Lose Court Challenge Over Packaging Arendtm May 19, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The tobacco industry lost its High Court challenge to the UK government's regulations on standardised "plain" cigarette packaging. Read more>...
U.K. Approves E-Cigarette Prescriptions To Help People Quit Smoking Arendtm January 6, 2016 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's drug regulators have given the go-ahead for a British American Tobacco electronic-cigarette vaping device to be sold as a quit smoking medicine, the first such product to be given a...
Good news from our friends in the UK Arendtm December 18, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News ASH (UK) news release: France commits to go ahead with standardised ‘plain’ cigarette packs as Big Tobacco’s UK legal challenge draws to a close The tobacco industry’s challenge to the UK’s standardised tob...
Plain Packaging for Tobacco Will Become the Global Norm Arendtm March 12, 2015 Featured News & Events, Press Releases FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Megan Arendt Office: 202-659-4310 Email: arendtm@ash.org PLAIN PACKAGING FOR TOBACCO WILL BECOME THE GLOBAL NORM But will the U.S. be last? WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 1...
Breaking News: MPs back standardised cigarette packaging Arendtm March 11, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News MPs have voted in favour of introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes in the UK. It means from 2016 every packet will look the same except for the make and brand name, with graphic photos accompanying ...
Legal Victories in International Tobacco Control 2014 Arendtm December 16, 2014 Blog, Smoke Alarms, Smoke Alarms: ASH Legal Updates Philip Morris International was fined in Brazil for targeting youth The consumer protection agency from the Brazilian state of São Paulo has fined Philip Morris over $480,000. The agency acted after a fo...
The Case for Banning Cigarettes Entirely, Forever Arendtm June 24, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News Doctors in the U.K. will vote on Tuesday as to whether to support a “campaign to ban forever the sale of cigarettes to any individual born after the year 2000.” It’s an appealing thought exercise for public hea...
