ActionSmoking&Health

The only place cigarettes belong is in a museum. Let's push them there by phasing out their sale. Join our movement to set the sun on big tobacco here: ow.ly/J1ks50vGkq5 #PhaseOutCigs #NCTOH2019

"Federal cuts that decimated the Office of Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mean that Agaku, and others like him at companies and universities, are now working to fill in a range of gaps left by the government." ow.ly/rtMj50YJ2qe

Together with @StopCorpAbuse @CTFKGlobal @GATC_int and @Creared_ We are knocking at the doors of the IACHR @CIDH To ask an urgent question: what happens when the tobacco industry violates our rights? We hope we can count on this important body ow.ly/B9IV50YYv3b

"In a sample of TikTok videos about flavored tobacco restrictions, the content that generated the most views was about how to circumvent newly implemented policies, according to a Truth Initiative study." ow.ly/y03Y50YJ2jS

ASH recognized today in Madrid during discussions on the future of tobacco control and tobacco endgame policies. 🇪🇸🚭 Former Spanish Health Minister María Luisa Carcedo: “If tobacco entered the market today it would not be allowed, it must be phased out of the market.”

Thank you #CRC for prioritizing #childrensrights & calling on #Colombia & #Spain to protect children from tobacco products: ash.org/crc-win-2026 Together, we can hold governments accountable for their weak tobacco control policies that harm our children. #TobaccoViolation

Featured in The Washington Post: ASH Board Chair Carolyn Dresler responds to the editorial “Butt out, cigarette banners.” Read an excerpt from her letter to the editor 🔗ow.ly/O6Hi50YW61W

"The evidence suggests that, like advertising, CSR messaging can be used by tobacco companies to shape consumer perceptions, support marketing goals, and potentially spread misinformation or disinformation—all while enhancing the companies’ public image." ow.ly/PT4750YimHs

We’re excited to share that ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber will be speaking in an upcoming international session with SEPA & ENSP on tackling tobacco and nicotine use in dental practice. See flyer for details.

"For decades, the tobacco industry has used scientific collaboration to gain legitimacy, minimise the risks of its products, and influence health policies, often in a covert manner, OxySuisse alleged." ow.ly/r3je50Yim6a

The UK just set a global precedent. A Tobacco-Free Generation law will ensure kids never become the tobacco industry’s next customers. 👏🔗ow.ly/Kc0U50YRQl3

"The health system is under increasing pressure; allowing discounted tobacco sales effectively undermines government goals to reduce cancer & cardiovascular disease. It also removes funding from government coffers that could expand existing health care." ow.ly/ONEK50YpOw5

Addiction removes choice. Policy can change that. The UK’s Tobacco-Free Generation Bill is a game-changing step toward ending tobacco addiction for future generations. Read more: ow.ly/n7Yi50YRf97

From a public health perspective, appointing a former tobacco executive to a high-level role at the CDC is “unprecedented,” said Timothy McAfee, who headed the Office of Smoking and Health at the CDC from 2010 to 2017. ow.ly/BgvR50YPsC1

Great news! "A bill banning anyone born after 2009 from buying tobacco in the UK has completed its progress through parliament in a move that ministers hope will create a 'smoke-free generation”'" ow.ly/RrY550YPsGW

"Some of the most powerful cancer breakthroughs don’t begin with treatment. More than half of all cancers can be prevented through healthy behaviors... One of the most impactful lifesaving efforts has been the decades-long push to reduce tobacco use." ow.ly/YSU950YoiXp

"The targeted marketing of menthol cigarettes – through sponsorships, magazine advertising, retail promotions, and concentrated point-of-sale advertising in Black neighborhoods – has had devastating consequences." Read more: ow.ly/L1sA50Ynh12

"When I started the process of this career switch, I thought smoking wasn’t really that big a problem. That we all knew it was bad for you, and that this was a dying industry. I couldn’t have been more wrong." Keep reading: ow.ly/UBZz50Yngw9

"Gallatin, Tennessee unanimously passed a comprehensive smokefree ordinance, closing a longstanding statewide loophole and eliminating smoking inside most 21+ establishments." ow.ly/FPp450YngKP

"The 9.9% cigarette smoking prevalence rate is progress but not the complete story. Unfortunately, unless we do more, we are still losing the battle for health against the commercial tobacco and nicotine industry." Keep reading this ASH blog: ow.ly/nGyZ50YJ3Tt

"I think we need to approach this news with some caution. There are massive inequities within the 9.9% of Americans who smoke cigarettes, with marginalized groups disproportionately represented." - Vaughan Rees, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ow.ly/zN3G50YCW7x