The Right to Health and Cessation
The marketing and sale of tobacco products violate the right to health and life of all people globally
ICTC is the lead author of this Cessation Report with ASH on the importance of incorporating cessation ...
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...
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...
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*
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The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the world’s first public health treaty. It was negotiated as the world's response to the global tobacco epidemic. The FCTC was completed in 2003, and ...
Global Best Practices
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...
Monograph: The Economics of Tobacco & Tobacco Contol
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?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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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
The WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2015 has been released.
It is available here>...
#StopTobaccoTactics
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
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
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
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...