First Quarter 2025 – ASH > Motion on Smoking & Well being

Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes Are Not Recyclable

As we speak is Worldwide Day of Zero Waste which reminds us that whereas we must always concentrate on what we devour, we must be notably cognizant of what we waste, how we are able to decrease it, and find out how to correctly get rid of it. The Earth is nearly totally a closed system, which means that what we “throw away” has nowhere to go however right here.

There are two key ideas to preserving our surroundings. The first is “scale back, reuse, recycle.” The second, principally the first one mentioned another way, is the “round economic system.” They’re helpful methods to consider how humanity makes, makes use of, and disposes of stuff.

However they don’t apply to cigarette filters and digital nicotine gadgets.

Why? Two massive causes.

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• Marketing campaign: Honoring 20 Years of the WHO Framework Conference on Tobacco Management
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• 20 Years of FCTC | Reflections from:
  • Alfred Munzer, Director of Pulmonary Medication Washington Adventist Hospital, Washington, DC; Former President, American Lung Affiliation and Board Member, Motion on Smoking and Well being
  • Chris Bostic, Coverage Director of ASH
  • Dr. Eduardo Bianco, Director, Habit Coaching Program for Well being Professionals
  • Elif Dagli, Chair, Well being Institute – Türkiye
  • Dr. Judith Mackay, Director, Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Management, Hong Kong
  • Laurent Huber, Government Director of ASH, former Director of the FCA
  • Luk Joossens, Worldwide knowledgeable on combatting illicit commerce in tobacco merchandise, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Mary Assunta, Senior Coverage Advisor, Southeast Asia Tobacco Management Alliance; Head of International Analysis and Advocacy, GGTC
  • Ross Hammond, former Coverage Director, Framework Conference Alliance
  • Quickly-Younger Yoon, consultant for the Worldwide Alliance of Ladies to the UN
  • Tom Glynn, Stanford College, Prevention Analysis Middle, College of Medication
  • Dr. Ulysses Dorotheo, Government Director, Southeast Asia Tobacco Management Alliance
  • Vera Luiza da Costa e Silva, Head of the WHO FCTC Secretariat 2014-2020, Senior researcher at CETAB-Fiocruz, Government Secretary of Brazil’s Fee for FCTC & Protocol Implementation

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