Database
23 Jan 2025
ASH hosts regular educational webinars for public health advocates to learn from each other and strengthen our tobacco control work.One Webinar Attendee said:“You’re doing wonderful work and everyone truly does benefit from the training opportunities ASH provides, so thank you so much for all that you do and continue doing! I truly hope one day we can have a smoke-free CA, and eventu...
23 Jan 2025
The object of this mid-term evaluation, as requested by Member States through decision WHA74(11), was to assess the new operating model of the GCM/NCD launched in 2022 under its 2022–2025 workplan and building upon the 2020 final evaluation of the GCM covering the period 2014–2020 and the earlier 2018 preliminary evaluation of the GCM/NCD. The evaluation focuses on progress, achievements,...
Report
05 Nov 2024
By 2030, 1.4 billion people will be aged 60 and over. Yet the majority of health and care systems worldwide remain unprepared for population ageing and associated rises in rates non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and disabilities. This is particularly true in low- and middle-income countries where the majority of older people live. Today, millions of older people in these co...
Database
07 Oct 2024
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is joined by ASH Canada, the Coalition for Americas’ Health (CLAS), and the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC) in reporting to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on tobacco companies’ human rights violations.For the 89th session of CEDAW running October 7 – 24, 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland, ASH,...
Report
13 Sep 2024
This report captured the proceedings of the 2024 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Population Ageing, held in Bali under the theme "Reframing Ageing." It brought together insights from 479 participants across 38 countries, showcasing innovative policies and practices that promoted active ageing, social protection, long-term care, climate resilience, and intergenerational solidarity. The conferen...
Database
23 May 2024
Tobacco companies spend millions of dollars lobbying in the U.S. every year in an attempt to weaken, delay or kill life-saving public health policies. ASH began tracking tobacco industry lobbyists and lobbying firm registrations in 2021, amidst a global respiratory pandemic, and noted significant increases at that time in tobacco industry spending at the federal level to undermine public heal...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
23 May 2024
Tobacco Endgame Guides, Talking Points, and Fact Sheets
Guide
12 Feb 2024
ASH welcomes several groundbreaking decisions that will kick start global progress to accelerate the end of the tobacco epidemic:Human Rights Decision: encourages Parties to consider including WHO FCTC principles and implementation efforts when engaging with the United Nations human rights mechanisms.Article 2.1 on Forward Looking Measures (Tobacco Endgame) Decision: an Expert group was establishe...
Report
23 Oct 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated more than ever the need for global and national leadership in supporting resilient health and other systems, and the reality that health, economy and better societies are inextricably linked. Also important is the mobilisation of non-health sectors through polices and programmes that facilitate a ‘whole-of-society’ and ‘whole-of-government’ response....
Article
24 May 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 24, 2021 – Our vision of a world without tobacco deaths is materializing. Today, ASH released an open letter calling on governments around the world to not only envision ending the tobacco epidemic but put in place concrete plans to make it happen. Not someday, or by 2050, or by 2100. We cannot simply burden future generations with an epidemic we can and should solve now....
Declaration
22 Jun 2020
The COVID - 19 pandemic has exposed health system gaps and vulnerabilities across the world and ha s demonstrated more than ever the need for resilient health systems, especially ones that are equipped to respond to the growing burden of non - communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental disorders . As budgets are reallocated and ministry of health staff are re assigned to respond to the crisis, attent...
Article
03 Jun 2020
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 17, 2020 – Today, The African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC) and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) held a virtual press conference announcing their joint complaint against the FDA, represented by Pollock Cohen, LLP. The complaint requests that the court compel the FDA to fulfill its mandate to take action on FDA’s own conclusions that it would ben...
