👁️Prägnant zusammengefasst!🔽

Deshalb: #Tabakindustrie abschaffen🚭
Es ist Zeit für das Endspiel!

Der neue Bericht von @ash.org enthält 14 strategische Empfehlungen für eine effektivere Kommunikation zum Thema Tabak-Endspiel, um den politischen Willen voranzutreiben.

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#tobaccoendgame

The Global Fight to Protect Women and Girls from Tobacco Women comprise roughly 20% of the world's 1 billion+ people who smoke, with about 200 million female tobacco users globally. Although smoking among women is generally decreasing, it is falling at a sl...

This Sunday for #InternationalWomensDay, we are motivated to act because tobacco disproportionately harms women and girls and is often overlooked as a #womensrights issue.

Learn more: ow.ly/Mqjq50Yqt8f
#IWD2026 #GiveToGain

New Report: Making Tobacco Industry Elimination Inevitable Author: Eline Goethals, The School for Moral Ambition The tobacco industry’s products kill 7 million people annually while generating $880 billion in revenue—more than Google, Meta, and Apple combined...

NEW REPORT OUT – ‘Making tobacco industry elimination inevitable’

The tobacco and nicotine industry's days are numbered.
Learn more in a new strategic playbook with 14 concrete recommendations for advocates from our allies @ash.org: ow.ly/53Hb50Yfkih
#TobaccoEndgame

Check out our latest blog on normalising the tobacco endgame: https://bit.ly/3Ot6CZM

NEW REPORT OUT – ‘Making tobacco industry elimination inevitable’

The tobacco and nicotine industry's days are numbered.

Learn more in a new strategic playbook with 14 concrete recommendations for advocates: ow.ly/53Hb50Yfkih

#TobaccoEndgame @ash.org

Neuer Bericht erschienen: „Die Abschaffung der Tabakindustrie unumgänglich machen“

Die Tage der Tabak- und Nikotinindustrie sind gezählt...

Erfahren Sie mehr im neuen strategischen Handbuch von @ash.org mit 14 konkreten Empfehlungen: 🔽

NEW REPORT OUT – ‘Making tobacco industry elimination inevitable’

The tobacco and nicotine industry's days are numbered.

Learn more in a new strategic playbook with 14 concrete recommendations for advocates: ow.ly/53Hb50Yfkih

#TobaccoEndgame

Protect Children, End Tobacco Exploitation in Spain The tobacco industry is relentlessly targeting children in Spain, using widespread advertising, promotion, and sponsorship of tobacco products through all types of media. But the truth is far darker: ...

#CRC100 is reviewing how #Spain protects #childrensrights.

It's essential for Spain to strengthen their tobacco control policies to protect children from the aggressive and deadly tobacco industry.

Learn more: ash.org/crc100-spain
#TobaccoViolation

Flue-cured tobacco in Zimbabwe: a particularly harmful commodity requiring the attention of tobacco control Background Tobacco control is beginning to pay attention to additives and flavours in tobacco products but less so to the tobacco leaf itself. Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) leaf increases dependence on ni...

New research highlights deforestation and economic traps created by flue-cured tobacco in Zimbabwe.
tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social @btsrespiratory.bsky.social #RespEd #LungSky

ASH Honors Outgoing Board Chair Doug Blanke and Introduces New Board Chair Carolyn Dresler, MD, MPA Media Contact: Megan Manning (202) 659 – 4310 ASH Honors Outgoing Board Chair Doug Blanke and Introduces New Board Chair Carolyn Dresler, MD, MPA A Tribute to Service and the Next Era of Progress WASH...

Today, ASH welcomes our incoming Board Chair, Carolyn Dresler, MD, MPA. She is trained as a thoracic surgical oncologist and pursued utilizing the human rights-based approach to the tobacco epidemic that ASH embraced nearly 15 years ago.

Learn more: ash.org/ash-honors-o...

The Epidemic of Tobacco Harms among People with Mental Health Conditions | NEJM High rates of tobacco use among people with mental health conditions contribute to their increased morbidity and mortality, but tobacco cessation interventions can be effective in this population.

"integration of tobacco cessation into mental health services — supported by political will, training, and equitable resourcing — is both necessary and achievable." www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... @ashorguk.bsky.social @ash.org

TOBACCO ENDGAME - Using lessons from the UK experience to develop a knowledge toolkit for tobacco control.
@asthmaandlung.org.uk #FCTCCOP11 #COP11
www.ersnet.org/wp-content/u... @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #LungSky #RespEd

The 4th edition of the Economics for Health Cigarette Tax Scorecard, which assesses cigarette tax policies in 171 countries, is launching on Dec 15 on EconomicsforHealth.org!

Register for the launch webinar on Dec 15 at 9am ET to learn more: ow.ly/kzJ150XFUjb

Nonfilter and filter cigarette consumption and the incidence of lung cancer by histological type in Japan and the United States: Analysis of 30‐year data from population‐based cancer registries Shifts in the histologic type of lung cancer accompanying changes in lung cancer incidence have been observed in Japan and the United States. We examined the association between the shift in tobacco ...

"the shift from nonfilter to filter cigarettes appears to have merely altered the most frequent type of lung cancer, from squamous cell to adenomcrarcinoma." @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social #LungSky #'RespEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Report from ERS on the Adoption of Tobacco Endgame Policies in the EU confirms legal basis for introducing a generational sales ban.
www.ersnet.org/wp-content/u...
#LungSky @ashorguk.bsky.social @whofctc.bsky.social #RespEd @ash.org

Interference around COP 11 & MOP 4 - Tobacco Tactics Background The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is an international treaty that aims to reduce the supply and demand of tobacco. The WHO FCTC includes a specific obligation, Arti...

The WHO #FCTC includes Article 5.3, requiring Parties to protect public health policies from the commercial & vested interests of the tobacco industry.

Yet there has been an increase in tobacco industry interference ahead of #FCTCCOP11.

More: ow.ly/4iEN50XqKRK via @tcrgbath.bsky.social

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

“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

“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.”

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...

Europe tobacco data toolkit 2025.pdf | Powered by Box

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

#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/

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.

🚬 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....

Time to end the filter fraud @ciel.org @ash.org @ashorguk.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social #INC52 #PlasticsTreaty

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 ...

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