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Press Releases Broken down by category
- ASH policy agenda
- Cessation policy
- Advertising and sponsorship
- Taxation
- Smuggling
- Passive smoking
- Smoking and health
- International resources
- Industry conduct
- Product regulation
- Smoking in the workplace
- Smoking in public places
- Youth Smoking
Press Releases by date
December 1998
16/12/1998 Advertising judicial review: no surprises, just more time wasting
10/12/1998 Tobacco White Paper: ASH delighted
04/12/1998 UK Tobacco litigation starts again
November 1998
30/11/1998 Cigarette tax rise: don't let good health & tax policy be diverted by smugglers
23/11/1998 Smoking
19/11/1998 'Strictly confidential' document shows BAT recruiting medical spin-doctors to work in China
13/11/1998 Action to reduce underage tobacco sales
October 1998
28/10/1998 British Health Groups demand radical change to cigarette & nicotine regulation
28/10/1998 First sex warnings on cigarettes in Thailand
27/10/1998 New research shows that health warnings don't work
06/10/1998 WHO passive smoking study: tobacco industry & Sunday Telegraph disinformation nailed
01/10/1998 New ASH website offers hard facts on tobacco & 'rude awakening' on smoking
September 1998
22/09/1998 EU ad ban: more pointless legal posturing by the tobacco industry
17/09/1998 Restaurant association survey based on 'flawed & scaremongering' assumptions
10/09/1998 Smoking in pregnancy: NHS fails women
08/09/1998 Cigarette taxes and smoking bans are fair & sensible: smokers don't have equal rights!
07/09/1998 BAT de-merger: legal money laundering
August 1998
31/08/1998 Letter in the FT in response to Philip Morris' claims
12/08/1998 Industry report: irresponsible scaremongering
July 1998
27/07/1998 Smoking may reduce penis size: time for the Viagra patch?
09/07/1998 ASH shows F1 why it should cut out cigarettes by 2002
08/07/1998 Nature journal is 'silly' on addiction
06/07/1998 Judicial review: whinging tobacco King Canutes continue to waste time
June 1998
25/06/1998 'Tell the truth' - ASH confronts the tobacco industry with its own words
25/06/1998 Tobacco companies challenged on the web
09/06/1998 NRT: cheap & effective - so make it more readily available
03/06/1998 Tobacco 'King Canutes' to attempt judicial review of Government tobacco committee
May 1998
21/05/1998 Nurses lose case but victory on key principle
13/05/1998 MEPs spurn tobacco industry lobbying & vote for health
12/05/1998 MEPs urged 'don't bow to Tobacco's dirty tricks' on advertising
06/05/1998 Nicotine works by pain of withdrawal rather than pleasure of reward
01/05/1998 'Rapacious & predatory' tobacco giant must be candid about litigation risks to shareholders
April 1998
30/04/1998 Secret docs confirm tobacco giant kept smoking dangers from pregnant women
27/04/1998 Cancer gene research exciting, but don't bet your life on a miracle cure
22/04/1998 Tobacco smuggling: Customs clampdown better than tax climbdown
20/04/1998 Letter to Financial Times re tobacco advertising
20/04/1998 Tobacco advertising & Prof. Hugh High
16/04/1998 Letter to Sunday Telegraph regarding its reporting of passive smoking & attack on ASH
14/04/1998 Marlboro maker had strategy to buy up British scientists to muddy waters on passive smoking
02/04/1998 Rail company vindicated over its smoking policy
01/04/1998 Why low-tar cigarettes don't work & how the tobacco industry fooled the smoking public
March 1998
27/03/1998 ASH takes Sunday Telegraph to PCC over 'false & misleading' reporting of passive smoking
26/03/1998 Latest smoking rates show young people still hooked on positive image of smoking
08/03/1998 ASH calls for immediate action on low tar cigarettes
08/03/1998 Response to alleged suppression of WHO passive smoking report
05/03/1998 Beware Formula 1 offer: it is mischief & skullduggery designed to wreck the tobacco ad directive
February 1998
18/02/1998 Smoking in films: major ad agency says it is a key tobacco industry marketing ploy
15/02/1998 BAT documents show that addicting customers is core business
12/02/1998 Lung cancer victims win first skirmish with tobacco companies
05/02/1998 Health Green Paper - sound philosophy must translate into action & money
January 1998
21/01/1998 Tobacco ad ban would create new jobs
13/01/1998 Publicans and restaurant owners have nothing to fear about smoking bans
