ASH Webinars
Action on Smoking and Health organizes webinars regularly to inform stakeholders and activists about policy initiatives related to ending tobacco consumption globally.
Tobacco companies increase their influence
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 30, 2025 – Today, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) released the 2025 U.S. Tobacco Industry Interference Index, a biennial report detailing the extent to which decisionmakers in the U.S. are influenced by tobacco industry manipulations. The U.S. ranked 98 out of 100 countries surveyed, its worst rank since the report…
Global Plastics Treaty Talks End in Failure
After 10 days of talks, diplomats from 180 countries were unable to break their deadlock to finalize the world’s first treaty on plastic pollution in Geneva, Switzerland. The summit, held at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, ended after an all-night contentious session on August 15, 2025. According to Laurant Huber, Executive Director of…
Why Trust Science?
In the book Merchants of Doubt and in this video, Naomi Oreskes explained how corporations and proponents of a “neoliberal” political ideology (that discourages government regulation) created doubt about both tobacco science and climate science. The same scientists (funded by conservative organizations) who caused people to doubt whether tobacco causes illness also convinced people that…
US Surgeon General’s Report
Sent by Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy: This week, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a Report on “Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities.” This is the 35th Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health since 1964, a series of instrumental reports that inspired the name of our organization: Action on Smoking and Health. ASH welcomes this report,…
Santa Cruz County’s First-in-the-World Cigarette Filter Ban Passed
“Cigarette filters are the world’s leading source of trash and the leading source of plastic pollution. Globally, approximately 4.5 trillion used filters – or butts – are discarded into the environment every year. Filters are non-biodegradable and cannot be feasibly collected or recycled.” https://ash.org/santa-cruz-countys-first-in-the-world-cigarette-filter-ban/
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Empower Women, End Tobacco Exploitation
The tobacco industry is relentlessly targeting women worldwide, using advertisements that portray smoking as glamorous and sexy. But the truth is far darker: tobacco kills millions, and these aggressive marketing tactics violate women’s human rights. We Are Taking Action. Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and our global partners are reporting these violations to the…
Big Tobacco Ads Target Women
The first link connects to an article with several videos showing how the tobacco industry targets women, children, and other specific groups with cigarette marketing. In Bangladesh, women are persuaded to start smoking for their health and to sell cigarettes to others. An ASH video spotlights women around the globe working to counter the efforts…
Tobacco Doesn’t Only Kill People
This World Health Organization (WHO) video illustrates how “Tobacco is Killing the Planet.”
“Meet Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKqeC9WObfI
Tobacco Waste
Yogi Hendlin, UCSF Tobacco Center fellow, wrote this paper on tobacco waste.
US Bows to Lobbyists
The FDA has ruled menthol in cigarettes encourages smoking and harms population health. The current presidential administration has failed to act on this rule as explained in this report.