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Founded in 1967, ASH is America's oldest anti-tobacco organization, dedicated to a world with ZERO tobacco deaths. Learn more: https://ash.org
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Breaking News: Momentum is building across the US as the 26th jurisdiction passes a #TobaccoEndgame policy.

Tobacco endgame policies are a common-sense, justice-driven response to decades of preventable harm.

See the 26 jurisdictions here: ow.ly/CJnI50XnY0R
November 6, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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stopcorpabuse.bsky.social
Tobacco companies infiltrate lawmaking to weaken public health. It’s time to #ExcludeTobacco from lawmaking and save lives.

🔗 Learn more in @ash.org's 2025 US Tobacco Industry Interference Index: ash.org/2025Index
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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mhef.bsky.social
Important analysis in @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social. Tobacco control advocacy is essential for achieving human rights. Excellent work by @brittakm.bsky.social and @ash.org Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy
tcrgbath.bsky.social Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · Oct 9
New commentary by TCRG's @brittakm.bsky.social and Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy from @ash.org argues that recognising #tobaccocontrol advocates as human rights defenders would provide them with better protection and align tobacco control with global human rights standards.

👉 Read: doi.org/10.1136/tc-2...
“Tobacco control has always been about defending the right to health, life, and dignity. Yet the advocates who lead this work often face threats without the recognition or protection afforded to other defenders of human rights.”
October 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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copddoc.bsky.social
The Belgrade Declaration on Tobacco Taxation and Competitiveness affirms that effective tobacco taxation is one of Europe’s highest‑impact, evidence‑based policies. ensp.network/the-10th-ens... @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org @whofctc.bsky.social
The 10th ENSP-ECTC - Belgrade Declaration on Tobacco Taxation and Competitiveness - European Network
At the 10th European Conference on Tobacco Control, held in Belgrade between 22-24 October 2025, experts from across Europe, including economists, researchers, and public-health advocates, endorsed th...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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copddoc.bsky.social
Cigarette filters - the “deadliest fraud in the history of human civilisation". www.tobaccotactics.org/article/ciga... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd
Cigarette Filters - Tobacco Tactics
Filtered cigarettes have historically been marketed as safer than unfiltered. Evidence shows that they are not less harmful and have increased health risks. The tobacco industry should bear responsibi...
www.tobaccotactics.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Breaking: the U.S. ranked 98 out of 100 countries surveyed for tobacco industry interference in policymaking - its worst rank since the report was first published in 2019.

Learn more about this score & how to #ExcludeTobacco in our newly released 2025 US Index: ash.org/2025Index
New Report: Tobacco Industry Interference in the U.S. Hits Record High
The tobacco industry’s influence in U.S. policymaking has reached an alarming new level. According to the newly released 2025 U.S. Tobacco Industry Interference Index from Action on Smoking and Health...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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“Tobacco control advocacy is not without risks... Tobacco control advocates should be recognised as human rights defenders (HRDs).”

- Dr. @brittakm.bsky.social, @tcrgbath.bsky.social and Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, ASH

Learn more about protections for Human Rights Defenders: ow.ly/9Occ50X9lCP
October 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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tcrgbath.bsky.social
New commentary by TCRG's @brittakm.bsky.social and Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy from @ash.org argues that recognising #tobaccocontrol advocates as human rights defenders would provide them with better protection and align tobacco control with global human rights standards.

👉 Read: doi.org/10.1136/tc-2...
“Tobacco control has always been about defending the right to health, life, and dignity. Yet the advocates who lead this work often face threats without the recognition or protection afforded to other defenders of human rights.”
October 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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copddoc.bsky.social
Tobacco Endgame Report for European Respiratory Society : Using lessons from the UK experience to develop a knowledge toolkit for tobacco control.
Download here: ers.app.box.com/s/q2sei9upue... #ERScongress @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social /n
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September 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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#Ohio -- where the legislature has tried preempt ALL local tobacco regulation -- is unsurprisingly one of the states with the highest number of tobacco lobbyists.

Thanks to @ash.org for their important work compiling this data.

ash.org/tobacco-money/
July 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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fctc-kh-fiocruz.bsky.social
Wow.💥
1 million used cigarette butts, packed into plastic bottles, now stand in front of the Palais des Nations in Geneva – where negotiators are meeting for the UN Plastics Treaty.

The image was shared by @ash.org on their website.
Photo by Morgan Cox.
August 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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stopcorpabuse.bsky.social
🚬 Cigarette filters are full of toxins, carcinogens and heavy metals. They are also the most-littered item in the world

#INC52 #PlasticsTreaty - Let's ban cigarette filters.

➡️ Learn more from @ash.org at ash.org/plastic-poll....
August 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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copddoc.bsky.social
Time to end the filter fraud @ciel.org @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social #INC52 #PlasticsTreaty
lrb.co.uk London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 8
‘Cigarette filters are clearly a problematic single-use plastic – a high-volume item, providing no benefit but instead promoting substantial human harm.’

Nicholas Hopkinson (@copddoc.bsky.social) on smoking and plastic pollution, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Nicholas Hopkinson | Compensatory Puffing
The main component of cigarette filters is a plastic, cellulose acetate, and trillions of butts are discarded into the...
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August 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Today at #PlasticsTreaty #INC52, ASH stands with high ambition countries that refused to accept the fatally weak text offered by countries that benefit from plastic production.

No treaty is better than a weak treaty.

ow.ly/ccWz50WGFnx

#BreakFreeFromPlastic
INC-5.2 Synopsis: UN Plastic Pollution Treaty Negotiations
Today, August 15, 2025 at 10:00 am Geneva time – ASH stands with the high ambition countries that refused to accept the fatally weak text offered by countries that benefit from plastic production. No ...
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August 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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"Mr. Kennedy has made chronic disease his top priority, taking aim at artificial colors in food and unproven theories about vaccines. Yet decades of data show that smoking is a top driver of cardiovascular disease, cancer and premature death.”

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Trump Budget Cuts Hobble Antismoking Programs (Gift Article)
The elimination of a key C.D.C. office has slashed funding to states for help lines used by thousands to stop smoking and vaping.
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June 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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unfairtobacco.bsky.social
#WorldEnvironmentDay 2025 calls for collective action to tackle plastic pollution. Let us make sure that #cigarettebutts as the most littered items worldwide, get included in the UN plastic treaty!
#BeatPlasticPollution #PlasticTreaty
@ash.org @greenpeace.eu @wwf.eu @fctc-kh-fiocruz.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Big Tobacco thrives on deception—masking addiction, greenwashing, parading over human rights abuses, & weakening policy.

At ASH, we’re taking action, in courtrooms, at the UN, state legislatures & on the world stage.

More: ow.ly/vAkJ50W1Q4p
#TobaccoExposed #WNTD #WNTD2025
Unmasking the Appeal: World No Tobacco Day 2025
This Saturday, May 31, is World No Tobacco Day. Each year, the World Health Organization sets a theme that highlights a crucial element of the fight to end the tobacco epidemic. This year, ASH joins t...
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May 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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unfairtobacco.bsky.social
#CEDAW (der Ausschuss für die Beseitigung der Diskriminierung v. Frauen) fordert Luxemburg auf, einen nationalen #Tabakkontrollplan mit geschlechtsspezifischen Aspekten umzusetzen.
Dies verändert etwas: Wir können Regierungen über #UN-Menschenrechtsgremien zur Rechenschaft ziehen. 🔽

#Frauenrechte
April 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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copddoc.bsky.social
New ERS report: power to introduce a generational sales ban, where it will never be legal to sell tobacco products to people born after a certain date, lies firmly within the competence of EU Member States.  www.ersnet.org/news-and-fea... @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org @whofctc.bsky.social #LungSky
ERS offers EU Member States a clear pathway to introducing a generational sales ban on tobacco
The European Respiratory Society (ERS) has released a new report –  Adoption of Tobacco Endgame Policies in the EU: Can Member States introduce a generational sales ban? – which asserts that the power...
www.ersnet.org
May 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Farming tobacco can cause breathing difficulties, nausea, headaches, dizziness, rashes, & irritation to mouth & eyes.

But in the US, a 12yr-old can do this hazardous work.

Write to legislators to stop #ChildLabor in tobacco!

#WNTD #TobaccoExposed
@childlaborclc.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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“The Maldives is a global leader in the tobacco endgame movement, truly prioritizing the health of their citizens,” said Laurent Huber, Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health.

“We hope to see more jurisdictions follow their lead to pass robust endgame policies.”

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The Maldives Passes National Phase Out of Tobacco Products
Media Contact: Megan Manning manningm@ash.org (202) 659-4310 The Maldives Passes National Phase Out of Tobacco Products WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 23, 2025 – On May 21, Maldives President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu...
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May 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Breaking: #CEDAW called on #Luxembourg to implement a national tobacco control plan with a gender lens: ash.org/cedaw-win-2025

This changes the global conversation. We can hold governments accountable for their weak tobacco control policies through UN human rights treaty bodies.

#TobaccoViolation
Success: CEDAW Calls to Protect Women’s Rights by Strengthening Tobacco Policies
Recently, momentum has been growing around the human rights field understanding the extreme harm caused by tobacco companies. This is made particularly evident by an important win in a technical polic...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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copddoc.bsky.social
Time to levy the indefensible profits of Big Tobacco – to fund health measures and spur growth. www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p... @smfthinktank.bsky.social @ashorguk.bsky.social @ashorg.bsky.social #LungSky
Time to levy the indefensible profits of Big Tobacco | SMF
Rachel Reeves does not want to increase taxes again. This much is clear from the Spring Statement where, rather than raise revenues to ease the new pressures on the public...
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April 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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unfairtobacco.bsky.social
#WorldHealthDay
Focus on: health of #mothers and #newborns.
Smoking and secondhand smoke harm women, especially during pregnancy, and damage child development.
Read here how #womens rights and #tobaccocontrol are linked: 👉 unfairtobacco.org/wp-content/u...
@whofctc.bsky.social @ashorg.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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seichborn.bsky.social
Executive summary of our brochure on the #tobacco #supplychain, #duediligence and #humanrights:
unfairtobacco.org/wp-content/u...
@ashorg.bsky.social @partnershipfree.bsky.social @tcrgbath.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM