ASH Statement: Halting Funding to the World Health Organization Harms More Than the COVID-19 Response Arendtm April 16, 2020 ASH in the News, Breaking News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases 1 Statement from Action on Smoking & Health Halting Funding to the World Health Organization Harms More Than the COVID-19 Response Contact: Megan Arendt arendtm@ash.org (202) 659-4310 WASHINGTON, DC – AP...
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Dave Krogle February 5, 2019 HRC When writing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world’s first public health treaty, the framers looked to human rights accords for inspiration, examples and substantive legal thinking. This ...
Global Best Practices Arendtm May 21, 2017 The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco consumption kills approximately 7 million people per year, and according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), tobacco costs the world up to t...
Monograph: The Economics of Tobacco & Tobacco Contol Arendtm January 13, 2017 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News This collaborative analysis from the National Cancer Institute and the World Health Organization is the result of several years' work from noted experts in economics, public health and law. It is the most detai...
Does Tobacco Violate Human Rights? Arendtm April 5, 2016 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Press Releases 2 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...
Released: WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2015 Arendtm July 7, 2015 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2015 has been released. It is available here>...
#StopTobaccoTactics Arendtm March 3, 2015 Blog, Featured News & Events, News & Events Earlier this year Tel Aviv University’s School of Marketing, under pressure from the Israel Cancer Association, canceled an event sponsored by Philip Morris International. Unfortunately, victories like this...
In Putin snub, US will skip global tobacco summit hosted by Russia Arendtm October 3, 2014 ASH in the News, Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News In a shot at Russian President Vladimir Putin, the United States will not send a delegation to Moscow this month to participate in global health talks that hold major implications for the tobacco and burgeoning...
‘Ban E-cigarette use indoors,’ says WHO Arendtm August 26, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News The World Health Organization says there should be a ban on the use of e-cigarettes indoors and that sales to children should stop. In a report the health body says there must be no more claims that the device...
Why Uruguay’s David and Goliath fight with big tobacco really matters Arendtm July 16, 2014 Featured News & Events, News & Events, Related News LIMA, Peru — A protracted legal battle in an obscure World Bank tribunal over the principles of market competition in a South American backwater. Even by trade dispute standards, this one sounds arcane — the pe...
