ASH (and Partner) Treaty Reporting
This page contains submitted and upcoming civil society reports organized by international human rights treaty body.
ASH and our partners have followed the lead of the Human Rights and Tobacco Contro...
The Human Rights Council and Universal Periodic Review
The Human Rights Council (HRC) is a United Nations (UN) body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. While there have been a limited number of resolutions that are directly rele...
Tobacco Firms Lose Court Challenge Over Packaging
The tobacco industry lost its High Court challenge to the UK government's regulations on standardised "plain" cigarette packaging.
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U.K. Approves E-Cigarette Prescriptions To Help People Quit Smoking
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
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
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
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
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
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...
