"Fully implementing all supply and demand reduction measures in the WHO FCTC is important, but it’s time to recalibrate and convince ourselves that a 30% relative reduction in tobacco use is no longer an acceptable target. We should collectively be targeting a tobacco use prevalence that’s as low as possible, and the lowest possible is zero." - Ulysses Dorotheo, MD, FPAO, Executive Director of Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) Read more from Dr. Dorotheo here: https://ow.ly/CeHN50V7Wle #FCTC20Years #WeAre20 #FCTCSavesLives
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
保健和健身
Washington，DC 1,535 位关注者
Our vision is a world free from the harm caused by tobacco. #PhaseOutCigs @ASHorg
关于我们
Good policies don’t just happen. They take ongoing research, daily action, regular trainings, technical assistance in several languages, and a very, very dedicated team. This is why we train people around the world: we are hard-set on making sure all tobacco control advocates know that the production, marketing and sale of cigarettes is a human rights violation. Once they know that, we train them on how to use existing human rights systems to push their governments to enact stronger tobacco regulations. At the same time, if the sale of cigarettes is a human rights violation, governments must phase out their sale. That’s where our Project Sunset comes in. We coordinate and work with partners to provide technical assistance to local U.S. communities looking for ways to phase out the sale of cigarettes, like Beverly Hills, CA did. Your community doesn’t have to allow the sale of cigarettes, and your activism could be the impetus to turn the tides in your area! Contact us if you’d like to learn more ([email protected]). The 3rd tier of ASH’s programs is the legal next step once our human rights program and Project Sunset are in full swing in more and more jurisdictions. If it’s a human rights violation to sell cigarettes, the people selling cigarettes must be held accountable. We think it’s time to bring charges against tobacco companies and their executives for murder. Tobacco companies are getting a free pass to sell an addictive and lethal product, a free pass that no other company is given. Cigarettes kill when used exactly as intended. And we have it in our power to reverse the deadly trend they’ve started. But we can’t make a change without you. The trainings and technical assistance ASH leads across the US and around the world are crucial but quite expensive to maintain. Please consider making a generous donation today to ensure the ongoing success of our programs which are designed to be the final blow that ends the tobacco epidemic once and for all. Join us!
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https://www.ash.org
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 保健和健身
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- 11-50 人
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- Washington，DC
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- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 1967
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- Tobacco Control、WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control、Anti-Tobacco、Public Health和Public Policy
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1250 Connecticut Ave, NW
7th floor
US，DC，Washington，20036
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)员工
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"This report reviews the science around marketing in the retail environment and the massive impact it has on driving tobacco use, particularly among youth and young adults. It examines how state and local governments have spearheaded innovative solutions to mitigate this impact and highlights endgame policies that restrict points of sale." Read more: https://ow.ly/Lt5650V77uj via Truth Initiative
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ASH Policy Director Chris Bostic got his start in tobacco policy at the tobacco treaty negotiations: "I was in awe of the advocates – very recently self-designated as the Framework Convention Alliance on Tobacco Control (FCA) – that I met in Geneva. Here was a small group of doctors, lawyers, researchers, activists and public health experts that had put their lives on hold to challenge one of the most powerful industries in the world, backed by some of the most powerful governments in the world. The FCA was amazingly welcoming and patient with me, and many that I met then I still consider friends and mentors nearly a quarter century later." Read more from Chris here: https://ow.ly/9UpH50V7Wbx #FCTC20Years #WeAre20 #FCTCSavesLives
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For #WomensDay2025, we're building on #FCTC20Years and amplifying the profound impact the women's rights movement had at the nexus of the tobacco treaty negotiations and still has today. Tobacco control owes a lot of our success to the women’s rights movement. Learn more: https://ow.ly/5m3F50VcPLP #WomensDay #IWD #WeAre20 #FCTCSavesLives Cities for CEDAW, Soon-Young Yoon, International Alliance of Women (Alliance Internationale Des Femmes)
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Cigarette filters are plastic – cellulose acetate - and 4.5 trillion enter the environment annually. Cigarette filters do not biodegrade and they leach toxic chemicals into our soil & water. We need action! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/et78qX_z
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"Over 20 years, this incredible treaty has driven transformative changes – advancing human rights, sustainable development, gender equality, environment conditions and more. A shining example of global impact beyond health." - Dr. Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva Head of the WHO FCTC Secretariat 2014-2020, Senior Researcher at CETAB-Fiocruz, Executive Secretary of Brazil's Commission for FCTC & Protocol Implementation Read more: https://ow.ly/MLKA50V7W1f #FCTC20Years #WeAre20 #FCTCSavesLives
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Cigarettes kill when used exactly as their manufacturer intends. It's time to phase out their sale. Join the movement for healthy future generations: https://ash.org
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ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber was honored to participate in the World Health Organization FCTC 20th Anniversary Event in Geneva, Switzerland last week. He discussed the essential role that civil society has made throughout the negotiations and implementation of the #FCTC. Read more: https://ow.ly/Ke9I50VaBKr #FCTC20Years #WeAre20 #FCTCSavesLives
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"As the first global public health treaty under the auspices of WHO, the FCTC has transformed tobacco control, providing countries with a comprehensive framework to protect current and future generations from the devastating health, social, and economic consequences of tobacco use." - Dr. Eduardo Bianco, Director, Addiction Training Program for Health Professionals Continue reading Dr. Bianco's reflection: https://ow.ly/JXkK50V7VPP #FCTC20Years #WeAre20 #FCTCSavesLives
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"Tobacco is not only a health problem. It threatens sustainable development as a whole. The economic cost of smoking, in terms of health expenditures and productivity losses, is estimated at 1.8 percent of the world’s annual gross domestic product. Our planet also counts among tobacco’s victims. Roughly 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded every year into our environment – the second highest form of plastic pollution in our world." - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organization and Adriana Blanco Marquizo, WHO FCTC Secretariat Read more: https://ow.ly/foBu50V7WvK #FCTC20Years #WeAre20 #FCTCSavesLives