Press Room

Vital Strategies today issued the following statement in reaction to Philip Morris International being featured in Cannes Lions Festival’s “Good” track, which is supposed to promote work that “makes the world a better place.”

A new study in the journal Circulation reports nearly 100 million lives could be saved by increasing the number of people around the world treated for high blood pressure, by reducing salt intake and by eliminating trans fat from the global food supply.

Each breath can bring harmful pollutants into the bloodstream lung disease, heart disease, cancer, and impaired brain development in children.

Vital Strategies marks World No Tobacco Day with media campaigns and initiatives around the world that highlight the deadly effects of tobacco use and secondhand smoke and the efforts of governments to implement proven solutions.

The lawsuit aims to recover the costs to Brazil's health system of treating 26 tobacco-related diseases over the past five years.

The Turkish Green Crescent Society has a launched a new national campaign to highlight the damage caused by tobacco companies in Turkey. The campaign is the first of its kind to associate tobacco companies with tobacco-related deaths.

Vital Strategies today expressed concern over the US Food and Drug Administration’s decision to approve Philip Morris International’s IQOS product for sale in the United States.

The health organizations are asking Disney to require that Vice adopt a strict policy prohibiting the company and its subsidiaries from working with tobacco companies.

The month-long campaign, “Never Drink and Drive,” aims to reach the 8 million drivers in the city through television, radio, social media, billboards and in movie theaters.