WHO, WHO FCTC & UNEP Webinar
Fighting tobacco product waste: Holding tobacco industry accountable for its environmental footprint
June 2, 2022 - Tobacco control experts, including ASH's Executive Director Laurent Huber, and environmental ...
The Right to Health and Cessation
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Opposing Goals: The Tobacco Industry vs. Public Health
Author: Vivienne Brandt, ASH Policy and Communications Intern
In 2003, the World Health Organization concluded negotiations of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which reaffirmed the right o...
Report: Cessation, The Right to Health
Access to Smoking Cessation Support is a Human Right
ASH and ICTC Release a Report in Advance of World No Tobacco Day, May 31st
Contact: Megan Arendt
arendtm@ash.org | (202) 390 – 9513
WASHINGTON, DC – Ma...
ASH Statement: U.S. Rejoins the World Health Organization
Statement of Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health
Washington, DC - January 21, 2021 - Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) applauds President Biden for rejoining the World Health Org...
Publication from the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC
November 11, 2020
With COP9 postponed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) released this new publication:
Global Strategy to A...
Essay from Atul, a 10th Grade Student in Chennai, India
Why does this year's World No Tobacco Day matter to children?
By: Atul, Grade X, Chennai, India
Every year, 31 May is observed as World No Tobacco Day by the World Health Organization (WHO) and this year’s...
ASH Statement: Leaving and Halting Funding to the World Health Organization Harms More Than the COVID-19 Response
Statement from Action on Smoking & Health
Leaving and Halting Funding to the World Health Organization Harms More Than the COVID-19 Response*
Contact: Megan Arendt
arendtm@ash.org
(202) 659-4310
WASHIN...
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
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Parallel issues
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Regional Mechanisms
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Global Mechanisms – The United Nations
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70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
December 10 is international Human Rights Day, in observation of the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This landmark document set out, for the first ...
Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber on new PMI Foundation
On September 13, a new chapter in the struggle against tobacco began with a surprise announcement. Philip Morris International, a multinational giant and marketer of Marlboro, the world's most popular cigarette...
The U.S. Is Not Living Up to Its Obligation to Protect the Health of Its Citizens
All countries around the world, including the United States, have committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to strengthen universal peace and ...
The world’s largest tobacco company wanted good press – but it backfired
Re-printed as an English translation with permission from Buzzfeed Germany, original article in German here.
Stop producing or marketing tobacco! This is what an Institute for Human Rights has recommended to P...
We Agree: Put Big Tobacco out of business
The embattled tobacco industry is struggling to fight off one of its fiercest and possibly most dangerous foes to date: the World Health Organization.
The Hong Kong native who has run the U.N. body for the p...
New research published by the World Health Organization (WHO)
This new research by the WHO shows the huge opportunity governments have from increasing taxes on tobacco.
WHO found that if cigarette tax increased by US$ 0.8 (or 1 international $) per pack wor...
Does Tobacco Violate Human Rights?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Megan Arendt
Office: 202-659-4310
Email: arendtm@ash.org
Does Tobacco Violate Human Rights?
Inter-American Commission Ponders Question
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 6, 2016...
WHO warns governments that Big Tobacco is undermining protocol to combat smuggling
The Secretariat for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) recently sent the following Note Verbal to all Missions of Parties in Geneva to alert them to prevent interference from the tobacco ind...
New Global Anti-tobacco Leadership
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Megan Arendt
Email: arendtm@ash.org
New Global Anti-tobacco Leadership
After twelve years of success, ASH passes FCA baton to HealthBridge
WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 20,...
Huge progress made thanks to court case against Dutch State
Dutch government draws up rules for contacts with tobacco industry
via Youth Smoking Prevention Foundation
Amsterdam, 9 November 2015 – The court in The Hague ruled against the Youth Smoking Prevention Founda...
Released: WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2015
The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2015 has been released.
It is available here>...
#USChamberExposed
On June 30, 2015, The New York Times released a tiered investigation to expose the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) affiliates as a front group for Big Tobacco.
The New ...
